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Keith A. (Keefer522)
Reviewed on 5/24/2013...

In Roger Moore's final turn as James Bond 007, he travels from France to San Francisco to investigate crazed industrialist Max Zorin (Christopher Walken, in a typically awesome batsh*t crazy performance) who plans to destroy Silicon Valley in California so that his company can monopolize the world's microchip market. Bond's sidekick this time is Stacey Sutton, a geologist played by former "Charlie's Angel" Tanya Roberts (who was baked to absolute hottie perfection by this time).

I dig this film a lot, it's not quite as goofy as the preceding "Octopussy," there are some cool action sequences and impressive set pieces. The only problem is that by 1985, Roger Moore was pushing 60 years of age and therefore was clearly too old for the Bond role. As a result, several "stunts" featuring Moore are painfully obvious green-screen trickery (wouldn't want him to break a hip after all!) and his love scenes with various young hotties end up coming off kinda creepy.

Aside from those minor complaints, "AVTAK" is a good show, and one of my favorite Moore 007's.

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One of the Best

slick66 | Weiser, Idaho United States | 01/05/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."

Moore showing how bad a Bond movie can be

Marco Maroni | 06/15/2001

(1 out of 5 stars)

"'A View To A Kill' is a rarity - a boring Bond movie, that goes nowhere, and does nothing.This movie just drags on and on and on. It runs something like this ....Pretitle sequence and title song - great. Everything after that - deadly dull and boring. Cooking and dinner sequence - time to change channels and see what else is on.But it is worth watching the part when poor, aged Roger Moore is in bed with Grace Jones. It looks as if Grace would have Roger for breakfast. She should have played Bond - she would have done a much better job than old Roger.Another high point is the car chase through Paris. When the little Renault Bond is driving gets chopped into a convertible, there are some close-shots where you can see very, very clearly that the driver is not Roger Moore. It looks as if Bond has morphed into someone else, then morphed back into his normal, old Roger face. The continuity in this sequence is so bad, you'll be laughing.And the plot? Destroy Silicon Valley. Sounds like a great idea to me. When it's all rebuilt, using insurance money, it would be better built so that computer hardware will be better made. The only flaw in Zorin's plan is he should have destroyed Microsoft in Seattle at the same time. That would have made the film much more interesting.If you want to see a terrible, badly made, badly acted and just plain boring Bond film, with major continuity problems, then you'll love this one."

Could have been much better

slick66 | 07/01/2000

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I was really disappointed how Moore's last outing turned out. It had a good-sized budget, a clever title, came after the great Octopussy, and should have ended The Moore years (which were fairly good) with a bang. This is far from it. View has several good aspects, one being an excellent villain in Christopher Walken, who plays Max Zorin, a German industrialist with a hidden past (which is he is the result of a Nazi experiment) whom embarks on a quest to destroy the microchip -producing Silicon Valley by creating a major earthquake to greatly increase the amount of his own horde. The plot is a basic retread of Goldfinger, yet the microchips are possibly more interesting as is the earthquake but yet more unrealistic. The other good aspects are the pre-title ski chase (yet it isn't as good as TSWLM's), the mine escape, Duran Duran's dynamic title song hit, the car chase through Paris, the Eiffel Tower jump, John Barry's score, the cinematography, and the battle atop the Golden Gate Bridge between Zorin and Bond. However, everything else is poor. Moore gives a wooden performance as OO7 and is very unconvincing as being such a woman magnet. Tanya Roberts is possibly the worst Bond girl as the incredibly annoying Stacey Sutton, a geologist who works at City Hall (PLEASE). Grace Jones does a good job of playing MayDay but is monotonous and has an odd screen presence. Most of the other action is crummy, including a ridiculous and boring car chase through the streets of San Francisco and an unrealistic horse-racing chase. There are about no gadgets, and you barely get to see Q and don't even get to see his workplace. Finally, View is slow-moving and doesn't have a good feel to it. Like You Only Live Twice, View has so much potential and could have been one of Moore's best yet unlike Twice, View squanders its potential almost entirely. Overall, my least favorite OO7 adventure, even slightly worse than The Man With The Golden Gun."