Review of A View to a Kill (1985) by Josh S — 05 Dec 2008

Yes, it's true. I gave this film four stars AND have it included on the most underrated movies list. Is Roger Moore getting old in this one? Yes, of course. But Eon still wanted him (if he hadn't of said no he would have been in The Living Daylights). Other than the age factor this film is a very good Bond flick mainly because of the awesome screen presence of Christopher Walken.

The film is about French industrialist Max Zorin (Walken) who has a plan to corner the worlds microchip market by destroying Silicone Valley (it's hilarious to see microchips in this film that are bigger than my iPod). It's up to Bond to stop his plan of turning the San Fernando valley into Atlantis.

Yes, once again Moore was getting pretty old in this one and it was probably time to hang it up. He's quoted as saying that when the Bond girl's mothers started getting younger than him it was time to end his run. He's still Bond, just a Bond at the end of his run. It's Walken that shines in this film, a glowering supervillain that by the end is blatantly gunning his own workman down with Uzi's. And this was before he became such an icon.

As usual with a Bond movie the locations are spectacular and as much as you can complain about the plot, you can go through the previous franchises entrys you can find things that are more ridiculous than A View To A Kill. An underrated film that was a great swan song for Roger Moore.