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The Cast and Performances
Although Moore did not like this film, I thought he was rather good in it. He combines very well with the other actors in the film, and gives another convincing performance as 007. Christopher Walken is outstanding as Zorin, and is one of the best Bond villains ... Read review
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in A View To A Kill. Bond confronts Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), who has devised a plan to corner the world's microchip market, even if he has to kill million...
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Production Year: 2008 - Action/Adventure - Director: Christopher Nolan - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine
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Advantages: Great fast paced action Disadvantages: Moore too old, too much killing
...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 ... ...
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
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1985 saw the release of Roger Moore's 7th and final outing as James Bond, the MI6 agent. In one of the last plots penned by Bond creator Ian Fleming, Moore and critics were not too keen on the film, despite box office success.
The Plot
Sent to Siberia to recover agent 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 bodyguard May Day and his troops.
The Cast and Performances
Although Moore did not like this film, I thought he was rather good in it. He combines very well with the other actors in the film, and gives another convincing performance as 007. Christopher Walken is outstanding as Zorin, and is one of the best Bond villains ever. He was acclaimed for his role. Grace Jones do3es very well as May Day, but not much acting was required for the role - she mainly just had to look menacing, which she seems to do with 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 Duran Duran. The film has good action for the whole way through, and Moore and Walken as enemies keep it fast paced, but I felt the plot was not as good as other Bond films. It was not as believable, and hence the plot suffered.
However, the scenery and settings for the film are as beautiful as we have come to expect with Bond films. The Eiffel Tower is the setting for a chase scene, including its Jules Verne Restaurant, as is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and some ski scenes in the Swiss Alps. The camer work is better than in director John Glen's previous Bond films, and the director seems to be cementing his role as a Bond director rather well.
Although the box office disagrees, many have put this down as the worst Bond film made, including Roger Moore and Sean Connery. Moore was 57 when the film was released, and both he and Connery were critical of this. Moore disliked the genocidal nature of Zorin's machine gun killings, saying that it just wasn't like a Bond film, and critics have also been harsh with this film. However, I enjoyed it immensely, with the fast paced nature perhaps being more to my liking.
Advantages: Occassional moments of professional film making Disadvantages: lazy & tired... a real stinker in the Bond canon
...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, ...
dadmancat 30.03.2001
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Advantages: Walken and Jones Disadvantages: The franchise looks old and dated
...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, ...
TheNeil 26.02.2001
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Advantages: Nice locations, good action scenes and a super villain Disadvantages: Moore a little tired and the plot isn't the best in the series
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 ...
tom1clare 15.07.2003
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Advantages: Great last Bond film for Roger Disadvantages: Not rated as Roger Moore's best Bond
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 ...
IanM73 22.08.2005
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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
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A ViewTo A Kill
Roger Moore's last outing as secret agent James Bond begins in the usual off the wall style. Bond is being pusued across the snow by "unknown assailants" to the jolly tune of the Beach Boys "California Girls" before heading for a submarine discussed as an iceberg.
From here Bond is sent to Paris for a meeting ...
Advantages: Original sequences involving a Horse race. Disadvantages: Morre is too old to be believable as 007.
The title of A Viewto a Kill is taken from Ian Fleming's short story called From a Viewto a Kill. Published in April 1960 as part of a collection of short stories in the novel For Your Eyes Only, the story tells of Bond going undercover to investigate the murder of a dispatch rider in France.
This was Roger Moore's seventh and final outing as 007, at the time Moore was 58 and had been in the role of Bond for twelve years so the believability factor with him on screen canoodling with a Bond beauty that was at least 30 years younger was beginning to be stretched beyond belief. In fact Moore announced his retirement from the role after filming had completed stating that his was to be his last film of the series.
The pre title sequence begins with Bond recovering a microchip from the dead body of 003 in Siberia. The chip is the key ...
Advantages: Fun cast, good stunts Disadvantages: Bit silly in places, quite long
A ViewTo A Kill, first released in 1985, was the seventh and final film to feature Roger Moore as James Bond and the fourteenth entry in the franchise. The film is not widely regarded to be one of the strongest entries in the series, often cropping up near the bottom of Bond fan lists, but it is, in my opinion, an enjoyable piece of hokum that has more to enjoy than some would give it credit for.
A ViewTo A Kill's plot is essentially an update of Goldfinger with Silicon Valley replacing Fort Knox. James Bond investigates wealthy microchip industrialist Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) and stumbles upon a scheme that proposes to flood oil wells along the San Andreas fault in California, set off explosives and destroy Silicon Valley. Such a scheme would of course make Zorin's business considerably more lucrative and unique. Along ...
Roger Moore stars in his last appearance as 007, pitting his wits against Max Zorin, billionaire industrialist and racehorse owner, who intends to make a killing of earthquake proportions on the world microchip market.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
MGM ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS, MGM ENTERTAINMENT; 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date
03/11/2003, 12/03/2007
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
16234 DVD, 2926601000
Barcode
5050070004991, 5039036032063
Production Designer
John Barry
Music Director
John Barry
Creator
Ian Fleming
Composer
John Barry
Author
Ian Fleming, John Barry, Ian Fleming
Languages
Main Language
English
Hearing Impaired Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Audio Commentary Featuring The Director Cast And Crew, Inside A View To A Kill Documentary, The Bond Sound, Never Seen Before Deleted Scene, Music Video, 3 Theatrical Trailers, 4 TV Ads, Collectable Booklet, Audio commentaries
Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Surround 5.1, DTS 5.1 Surround
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital English
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Review
"...The potential for cinematic thrills and chills, what with glamorous locations, beautiful women and exotic locations, is still there..." (Variety, 22/05/1985)
DVD Description
James Bond (Roger Moore) must foil the plot of a diabolical scientist trying to control the world computer market by destroying California's Silicon Valley. Christopher Walken is entertaining to watch as the evil madman; the film also features the trademark Bond bevy of beauties, including Tanya Roberts and Grace Jones. A VIEW TO A KILL features a title song by Duran Duran and marks the last time Moore would play Bond.
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