Review of A View to a Kill (1985) by Stuart K — 17 Mar 2009
The 14th 007 adventure, and it was also Roger Moore's final outing as Bond. By this point, he was too old to be playing James Bond, he was 58 going on 88, and it shows. Plus the film relies too much upon it's humour, and the plot is a rehash of all that went on in Goldfinger (1964).
This adventure has Bond diving into the world of microchips and why microchips being developed by British and KGB are the same, it takes him to European industrialist Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), who also rigs horse races so that horses bred by him can win.
Bond goes from Paris to San Francisco, and discovers that Zorin is planning to monopolise the microchip market by getting rid of the competition, by causing an earthquake which will sink Silicon Valley, and he can control the market.
Can Bond stop him?? By this point, the franchise was starting to look like a bit of a joke again, and this one resembles a bad 80's action film made by Cannon Films. It does have it's moments, but Moore was too old to be doing stuff like this, seeing him lusting over Tanya Roberts and Grace Jones is creepy.
Thank heavens Timothy Dalton came along and blew the cobwebs off the franchise!! :P.
This review of A View to a Kill (1985) was written by Stuart K on 17 Mar 2009.
A View to a Kill has generally received mixed reviews.
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