First, Roger Moore just looks so old and tired in this film. Okay, as I say above I can't believe I actually saw this in the theaters, but at least I didn't PAY to see it! This movie managed to be WORSE than Roger Moore's other terrible James Bond film, MOONRAKER and that is no small accomplishment! And why is it so bad? Well, there are many reasons-acting, script and casting decisions that were just hair-brained to say the least. Reviewed by MartinHafer 2 / 10 I can't believe I actually saw this stinker in the theater! A View To Kill gets a bit silly at times, but fans of the James Bond series should be happy enough with it. So as Roger Moore rode off in his Astin-Martin car into the sunset we can thank 007 and the rest of the gang at British Intelligence that San Jose, California is not now an underwater city. Gotell always provides a note of levity in the Bond films, but never more so when he tells Robert Brown as M as to why he's happy that Walken gets foiled in his plot which we all know James Bond will do in the end. ![]() Walter Gotell as Russian spymaster General Gogol returns as well in this Bond film. She's certainly as deadly as Kiel and she also finds out as Kiel did just how expendable she ultimately is. Also in this cast is Grace Jones who functions oddly enough like Richard Kiel as Jaws in two earlier Bond films. She's the owner of some mining properties which Walken ruthlessly acquires for his nefarious schemes. Tanya Roberts joins the exclusive club of women who've been Bondified by some 007. Moore was 58 and looking like someone in his Fifties doing all these action stunts. Truth be told my favorite James Bond was getting a little too old to be playing in these action adventure films. It's funny how it's inevitably British Intelligence that seems always to be saving American bacon. Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10 A MicroChip off the Old Blockįor his last outing as 007, Roger Moore gets to save Silicon Valley in California as mad French industrialist Christopher Walken seeks to corner the market on nuke proof microchips. After the war, Hans Glaub aka Carl Mortner, the German scientist who conducted the experiments, raised a young Zorin. He is highly intelligent n acts very fast cos he is the product of a Nazi medical experimentation during World War II, in which pregnant women were injected with massive quantities of steroids in an attempt to create "super-children." Most of the pregnancies failed while the few surviving babies grew to become extraordinarily intelligent-but also psychopathic. ![]() Max Zorin is a sharp businessman, operating on the microchip market. Many fellas say that Muad Adams is present in the movie as an extra n uncredited of that of a passerby. ![]() Grace Jones was the first sexually aggressive Bond girl, evidenced by her reversal of positions - she climbed on top). (A true Amazonian female n better than the fake Gal Gadot. In this movie Bond gets to cool off with Mary Stavin, Fiona Fullerton, Tanya Roberts n Grace Jones He is present before the iconic dialogue, "No one ever leaves the KGB". This movie is Dolph Lundgren's first on-screen role, playing General Gogol's KGB bodyguard Venz but without any dialogues. The climactic fight scene on Golden Gate Bridge is very well done. It has a spectacular chase up and down the Eiffel Tower which must have inspired the parkour chase sequence in Casino Royale. It has a lovely pre credit scene of that of a breathtaking ski chase. In this movie Bond does an amazing horse hurdle race. A man gets minced in an underwater exhaust fan. This one's a bit violent The main villain Zorin, a sadistic psychopath (played smoothly by Christopher Walken) displays a near-total lack of loyalty to his own men n shoots hundreds of people with machine guns n that too with a smile. Apart from Zorin none of the henchmen are noteworthy. (I think he is fed up with the geeks n nerds). In this movie Bond has to deal with a villain Zorin, who is planning to blow up Silicon Valley. ![]() This is the fourteenth in the Bond series and the final appearance of Roger Moore as James Bond. I first saw this in the early 90s on a vhs. Reviewed by Fella_shibby 8 / 10 A violent Bond film with an aggressive, strong n sexually pulchritudinous Bond girl.
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