Review of Moonraker (1979) by The-Lords A — 08 Jun 2013

Bond film #11 and Moore film #4 (yay we're about halfway done with him!) Here's Moonraker.

Plot: A Drax Industries Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked and Bond is reassigned from a mission to investigate. As he searches for clues, he comes across Dr. Holly Goodhead and the owner of the shuttle manufacturing company, Hugo Drax. He suspects that Drax may somehow be behind the hijack but has trouble finding proof and is also facing Jaws again who is working for Drax.

This is better then the first two Moore movies, but it has a fair share of good and bad stuff. The story takes a while to really make sense, but it is really exciting when it finally does, Moore is not as good as he was in the last film but he's still holding his ground as Bond fairly well, and Dr. Goodhead is a decent Bond film. This film also has from pretty good space effects and really enjoyable action that went with it. In fact, the next Bond film was suppose to be For Your Eyes Only, but was later moved to be the film after this one so Moonraker can basically be James Bond's response to Star Wars. Even if it's easily not as grand as Star Wars by any means, it does manage to still be enjoyable...at least for what it is. However we also get slapstick comedy again and unsurprisingly, it's not all that great. We also get a change with Jaws' character that turns out kind cute but a generally stupid and cheesy turn with where they were going with him.

And that's my review for Moonraker. It gives us more of the unnecessary humor and a story that takes a while to be really interesting, but it also has good effects and action despite most of it being another response to Star Wars, and a decent performance from Moore as well as a decent Bond girl that makes this film not great, but manages to be a nice time.