The fourth series of the James Bond spy movies, A View to a Kill was completed in 1985. This was the seventh and final film in the James Bond star Roger Moore as the fictional M16 agent James Bond!
The title of the film was taken from Ian Fleming short story of View to a Kill. This film is the third James Bond film to feature an adaptation of the original storyline. In this classic film, James Bond goes against Arch Enemy Max Zorin, and plans to destroy Silicon Valley in California – the basic plot of this motion picture.
The film is produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who also wrote the screenplay with Richard Maibaum. It ‘was the third James Bond film directed by John Glen, and the latest features of Lois Maxwell, Miss Moneypenny.
Despite being a commercial success and won a Golden Globe nomination for best song, a View to a Kill was poorly received by critics and was also disliked by Roger Moore himself because of his age. Christopher Walken, but has been praised for producing “a classic Bond villain.”
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A View to a Kill is my all time favorite Bond movie. I think Roger Moore gives a great performance in his last Bond film. …The pre-title ski scene is magnificent, probably my favorite out of all.
The best thing out of this whole movie is Max Zorin’s main method of transportation is by blimp, a very interesting aircraft. Very interesting when involved in the finale action scene. Also I must say i was very fond of Zorin’s head of security, Scarpine, played by Patrick Baucheau…. One last thing about this movie is that I think it has the best music out of all the Bond films especially what they play during action scenes.
Roger Moore’s era of ‘Bond’ movies can be split into two nearly equal parts. The first 3 movies – ‘Live And Let Die,’ ‘The Man With The Golden Gun,’ and ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ – contain two of the five best ‘Bond’ movies of all-time (the first and last) and a very watchable, enjoyable film in between.
Then came the second half, where the movie writers seem to have had a lobotomy from the writers of the ‘Batman’ TV series in the 1960s. These were his last four Bond’s: Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and this one. And after viewing it again last night, all I can say is, “Goodnight sweetheart, well, it’s time to go,” because this may have been Moore’s worst Bond.
Then we get to the strongest part of the ‘Bond’ films throughout the Moore years, the theme songs. Virtually all seven theme songs to Moore’s movies were in the excellent to very good category, and two of them even charted in the top five.
But it’s all downhill from there. Bond gets invited to a rigged horse race near Paris to find the evil antagonist of “A View To A Kill,” a genetically engineered mistake by the name of Zorin (played most excellently by Christopher Walken). Zorin is rich, and he has plans to take over the entire Silicon Valley by replacing the implants normally served there with Folgers crystals. No, just seeing if you were paying attention. In reality, he plans to flood the Silicon Valley by inciting and earthquake and then corner the market on micro (Buffalo) chips.
Zorin also has a goon girlfriend – at least, I think she was a girl since Bond slept with her – named May Day, played by Grace Jones. Jones is – without a doubt – the absolute ugliest girl to ever play a ‘Bond girl.’ She looks like a steroid freak, perhaps the mother of Barry Bonds. Anyway, she and Bond wind up on the same side (as the girlfriend of the bad guy usually does), and she clears the explosive out of the mine shaft. May Day is blown to bits although you weren’t really sure that was the case until Bond couldn’t even find a piece of her when chasing the explosion.
Angry at being hoodwinked, Zorin’s still living flunky shows why he was never able to get another job by lighting a big stick of dynamite that Bond proceeds to flip the blimp and toss him back inside. We get a modern-day version of ‘The Hindenburg’ although San Francisco reporter Danny Tanner is not around to scream, “OH, THE HUMANITY.” The movie ends and Bond somehow gets off the Golden Gate Bridge without dying (I assume he simply waited for the cable car to pick him up). He then takes a shower with Tanya Roberts and gets a penicillin shot shortly thereafter.A not-so-great end of the road for Sir Roger Moore. But worth one viewing. I’d call it a low third-tier Bond.
This major motion picture movie really indicated that the Roger Moore era was over. Even while this was being released, we knew that a new Bond – rumored at the time to be Pierce Brosnan – was in the offing. Brosnan, however, could not get out of his contract with ‘Remington Steele,’ so we got Timothy Dalton.
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