Roger Moore's final Bond film, A view to a kill, is a criminally underrated entry in the canon, and I just don't get what's the gripe is about. From the opening sequence, it jumps on to one dazzling event to the next, the pace flowing. The plot just sucks you in like a vacuum - The racetrack scenes, the Eiffel Tower scene where Bond chases Mayday after she kills an informer, and the investigation at Zorin's mansion. It just rocks, and never lets up the pace. It's never boring and it's a glorious romp with some killer action sequences.
The story-The recovery of a microchip off the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley
As for Roger Moore, he's on top form, on a roll as a mature Bond - the word "old" is a bit derogatory - who still looks handsome, but importantly is exuding confidence, a great screen presence, elan and smooth as ever, but his fun approach is tempered with a seriousness and determination. His dialogues, especially when conversing with Zorin, are delivered brilliantly. His disgust for Zorin is very apparent. It's seems too convincing. He is much more mature and less winking at the camera - the only thing the filmmakers should've done in this entry was indicate that Bond is retiring, that this is his last hurrah, that way miserable moaners who go on about his age wouldn't raffle on about that point. ( odd though that the literary Bond chronologically is way past 60!!)
The action sequences are awesome, well-staged, exciting, especially the pre-credit sequence with the skiing, and Bond tackling the swarming helicopter. Matching this is the Eiffel Tower and the mine sequence - the latter is just pure cliffhanger. The cinematography is superb, especially around the golden gate where Bond and Stacy is clinging to life as Zorin wields his axe. The bits in between the excitement is engaging, with plenty of investigation and tech talk.
Christopher Walken is suitably creepy as the psychotic as Max Zorin, the way he shoot his own employees is so callous, and underpins his disturbed persona. Grace Jones as his henchwoman is menacing and emotes well when Zorin stabs her in the back. The oft-criticised Bond girl Stacey Sutton played by the sexy Tanya Roberts was really good, capturing that innocence of Bond girls Solitaire and Melina Havelock - she can scream "James" a lot, but if you're hanging to dear life in some perilous situations, what else would you do but scream. Patrick Macnee makes an inspiring appearance as the ill-fated Tibet, alongside his former ITC mate, Roger Moore. He's the third actor from the Avengers to appear.
A view to a kill might have some shoddy editing in regards to it being obvious that it isn't Roger but a stuntman, but overall it's an exciting addition to the franchise, and a fitting end to Roger Moore's tenure in a role that made him a household name. He's always been a heroic, Douglas Fairbanks-type of Bond, so it was fitting to see him carry Stacy down the ladder. A hark back to when heroes were heroes. In 1985 that was very much anachronistic - a farewell to the old-fashioned hero.
The story-The recovery of a microchip off the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley
As for Roger Moore, he's on top form, on a roll as a mature Bond - the word "old" is a bit derogatory - who still looks handsome, but importantly is exuding confidence, a great screen presence, elan and smooth as ever, but his fun approach is tempered with a seriousness and determination. His dialogues, especially when conversing with Zorin, are delivered brilliantly. His disgust for Zorin is very apparent. It's seems too convincing. He is much more mature and less winking at the camera - the only thing the filmmakers should've done in this entry was indicate that Bond is retiring, that this is his last hurrah, that way miserable moaners who go on about his age wouldn't raffle on about that point. ( odd though that the literary Bond chronologically is way past 60!!)
The action sequences are awesome, well-staged, exciting, especially the pre-credit sequence with the skiing, and Bond tackling the swarming helicopter. Matching this is the Eiffel Tower and the mine sequence - the latter is just pure cliffhanger. The cinematography is superb, especially around the golden gate where Bond and Stacy is clinging to life as Zorin wields his axe. The bits in between the excitement is engaging, with plenty of investigation and tech talk.
Christopher Walken is suitably creepy as the psychotic as Max Zorin, the way he shoot his own employees is so callous, and underpins his disturbed persona. Grace Jones as his henchwoman is menacing and emotes well when Zorin stabs her in the back. The oft-criticised Bond girl Stacey Sutton played by the sexy Tanya Roberts was really good, capturing that innocence of Bond girls Solitaire and Melina Havelock - she can scream "James" a lot, but if you're hanging to dear life in some perilous situations, what else would you do but scream. Patrick Macnee makes an inspiring appearance as the ill-fated Tibet, alongside his former ITC mate, Roger Moore. He's the third actor from the Avengers to appear.
A view to a kill might have some shoddy editing in regards to it being obvious that it isn't Roger but a stuntman, but overall it's an exciting addition to the franchise, and a fitting end to Roger Moore's tenure in a role that made him a household name. He's always been a heroic, Douglas Fairbanks-type of Bond, so it was fitting to see him carry Stacy down the ladder. A hark back to when heroes were heroes. In 1985 that was very much anachronistic - a farewell to the old-fashioned hero.