Speaking of the War on Terror... In the six year hiatus that followed Timothy Dalton's second Bond movie, the Soviet Union fell, and many commentators struggled to see a place for 007 in the 'new world order' that was emerging. GoldenEye proved those critics wrong with a slick new leading man in Pierce Brosnan and a clutch of bravura action sequences, but most importantly in acknowledging the character's Cold War roots and exploring what it means to be James Bond in a world without clearly defined ideological opposites. If anything, it's the more contemporary references that have aged badly, particularly a throwaway line at the end of the movie. The scene: Bond has defeated the rogue 00 agent Alec Trevelyan by dropping a satellite array on his face. In the surrounding jungle, he's enjoying a post-ideological kiss with the sexy Russian computer programmer Natalya. It's safe to say that things could get a little shagging-orientated, but before they can, a team of Navy SEALS emerge from the undergrowth, along with Bond's oafish CIA contact Jack Wade (the fact that they waited for a bit seems slightly...well...awkward). It's here that Wade offers a line that most certainly wasn't written with posterity in mind: "Maybe you two'd like to finish debriefing each other at Guantanamo?" Er...unless he's talking about a different Guantanamo, I'm not sure if waterboarding, kneeling down with a black hood over your face, marines blasting out Metallica 24 hours a day- I'm just not sure if any of those things are really that romantic. But then, maybe Bond likes a bit of kink. Like The Living Daylights, this is another topical reference that might have seemed innocuous enough at the time, but takes on a more awkward meaning after the geopolitical craziness of the last decade and a bit. At least, after fifty years and twenty three movies, Bond hasn't lost his capacity for cringe, and in this ever changing world in which we live in...that's awkwardly comforting.