A View To A Kill (DVD)

...003's corpse, Bond picks up a microchip which is an exact replica of one manufactured by Zorin Industries, owned by the eccentric businessman, Max Zorin. Bond goes undercover to meet Zorin and finds out that he is producing a revolutionary microchip, and that in order to conquer the microchip market, he is planning to destroy Silicon Valley through a series of earthquakes. Bond must team up with oil company owner Stacey Sutton to take on Zorin, his ...
...ease. Patrick Macnee gives a good turn as a very British horse trainer, Sir Godfrey Tibbett, and Tanya Roberts is good as Bond girl Stacey Sutton, as is Fiona Fullerton as Pola Ivanova. David Yip has a cameo performance. Robert Brown, Desmond Llewelyn and Lois Maxwell return as M, Q and Miss Moneypenny, and the rest of the cast support admirably. My Opinion The soundtrack to this Bond ilm haunts me, probably due to the title track, performed by ...

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...believable in the role of a suave, sophisticated and sexy secret agent. The supporting cast is of no help whatsoever. Grace Jones is just plain unattractive and all the snarling and high heels in the world won't make her a classic foe in the mould of Red Grant. Her senior cohort, Max Zorin - even the names were bad by now - is played with an annoying collection of twitches and hisses by Christopher Walken, who appears far too young and lightweight ...
...Sir Godfrey Tibbet, played with a delightfully light touch by Patrick Macnee, who could still cut it as Steed whilst Moore looks out of his depth as Bond...ironic. The story is hokum of the first order and is a collection of tired set pieces, lame gags, and recycled ideas. Glen is out of sorts in his third outing as director, in fact the whole production crew seems to be on some sort of leave of senses. Peter Lamont comes out best with his sets, ...

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...of an era. Was it a happy era or a sad era? Who knows - I'll leave that to a review of Roger Moore as James Bond. But does Mr Moore end on a high note? After retrieving a highly advanced silicon chip (capable of surviving a magnetic pulse given out by a nuclear bomb) British Intelligence sends their top man to investigate the alarming lack of security at the manufacturer - Zorin Industries. Using an interest in horse racing as a cover Bond infiltrates ...
...big time but unfortuneately he's a several years late - very much like Roger Moore himself. The obvious thing to say is that Roger looks too old to play the part and indeed well...he is. Seeing the almost pensionable Moore grappling with hired hoods, being intimate with the delectible Tanya Roberts, and charging around like a 20 year old is pretty bad but does it spoil the film? Well not totally. He does bring a lot to the role - a touch of humour, ...

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A View To A Kill marked the end of the 12-year Roger Moore era of Bond. At 58 years of age when the film was released back in 1985, Moore is the oldest actor to have been cast as the super-agent to date. To many, Octopussy should have been his last, but whilst A View To A Kill has frailties both in parts of the plot and the acting, it is among the more enjoyable films. Partially named after the Ian Fleming short story 'From A View To A Kill', this ...
...who just happens to be a hyper-intellegent geologist. As she is a descendant of the Sutton Oil Company, it turns out Zorin has been trying to force her to sell her remaining shares in the company, but as she refuses, she becomes a marked woman. A View To A Kill starts positively - the opening sequence involves a hectic ski-chase where Bond has been sent to acquire a microchip, found on the body of yet another dead double 0 agent. This is fairly ...

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As A View to a kill was the first Bond film I ever saw in the cinema and I have very good memories of it, I thought I should review this one. This was made in 1985 and was Roger Moores last outing as James Bond, he did not really want to do this one as he thought that he was too old at this stage to play the part. The storyline was actually set up for the new Bond Timothy Dalton but there was a last minute hitch and the film Dalton was currently ...
...the role. This had a very good cast setting With Roger in the title role, Christopher Walken playing the main villain Max Zorin, Grace Jones as his sidekick Mayday, Tanya Roberts playing Bonds love interest Stacey Sutton, and the Bond regulars Desmond Llewelyn as Q, and Lois Maxwell as miss moneypenny This was filmed in Pinewood studios in London, and had settings in Paris and San Francisco. When filming in Paris it took a very long time to get ...

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...Jones' catwalk villainess cuts a finer figure than the usual Bond heavy. It's a pity she turns out good in the end. But, like Walken, she puts in an exuberant performance. This is the best Bond film that Moore did by far even if he was past his best. ...

MarcusPerkins 26.09.2000 · Read full review
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...best ones. It's strange because a lot of the die hard James Bond fans don't like this one and The Man With The Golden Gun. For me, I'm sorry to have to disappoint a lot of the die hard fans but I consider them to be good films. None of the Bond films are exceptionally boring at all. And this Bond film is by all means never a bore, except in a few spots where the film drags slowly, but the pace always picks up. Christopher Walken was as if he was ...
...destroy Silicon Valley. May Day, a very good Grace Jones, is his partner who helps Max Zorin to make his dreams become a reality. However, at the end, a chain of events is sparked and soon, May Day finds herself the victim of one of Max Zorin's evil plans! Although I've gone through the main plot points so far, let me go from the beginning. Max Zorin is, besides an oil magnate, a horse racing man and as he cheats his way to mega amounts of money, ...

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...he still went out with a smash. This is one heck of a bond film, espiecally with the famous san fransisco bridge fight scene which ends up with bond and his lovely girl stranded on top just after the blimp has blown up. Very impresive. allthough the fight scenes are good wot about the story line???? well all i have to say is if a real ex-kgb agent(genectcally mutated during ww2 by a crazy emet brown looking scienctist) turned milionare trys to put ...
...everyone in sight then i have to admit this is a good story line. over all i suggest this is a must for all hose bonds fans out there like me. sound track: this song is impressive and is the best one out of all the bnd films ...

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