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dwd9510 2012-05-24 23:49:48

The second best Bond movie

Casino Royale was my favourite but A View To A Kill has everything youwant in a Bind movie. Gun Fights, A car chase (while it may behumorous), a beautiful Bond Girl, an evil Bond villain, who in myopinion holds the movie together perfectly, and the villains assistantwho would scare the living daylights out you. I don't understand allthe bad reviews, while it may have taken some elements from Goldfinger,I believe it is better than Goldfinger. The theme song is defianlty thebest, sung by Duran Duran, it's the perfect rock song. It was RogerMoore's last film, the end of an era, but in his last outing, he goesout with a band.Definite must see for action fans.5 out of 5 stars.

beatles-4-eva 2012-05-24 06:08:47

the underrated bond film

It is quite surprising that this film has been called the worst JamesBond film. This film is underrated. I find it to be the best James Bondfilm. The plot is very original and the music is fantastic( great songby Duran Duran).But one of the best actors in the film is not RogerMoore but Christopher Walkin. His portrayal of the cold heartedphyschopath Max Zorin is spectacular. He seems born for the part. Thegreatest part of the film is the pre-title scenes. James Bond dodgingbullets as he skies across the ice is fantastic. Another great part iscliffhanger atop the golden gate bridge.I recommend this movie for all007 fans. It is the best one of the series.

ToLiveAndDieInMA 2012-05-21 06:37:41

Too much continuity and blandness cant't make this a great Bond....

But nonetheless,it's fun. THE BAD: A plot somewhat reminiscent ofGoldfinger,with a few scenes to match, dose'not set up any excitingchases or shootouts, but most of the script makes up for it.The first48 minutes involves Horse racing. A terribly acted leading lady about30 years younger that bond himself,who looks fresh out of his plasticsurgeons office, is kinda weird. Plus endless factual errors make thewhole movie implausible. THE GOOD: An opening ski sequence,wonderfullycheesy opening credits makes the film classic nostalgia. A great scoreby the one and only John Barry adds some excitement. The presence ofChristopher Walken is quite interesting with one of the best deathscenes in a bond film following a wonderful fight in the Golden GateBrige!In closing, you have to judge for yourself on this one.

2012-05-20 17:08:42

If only a few years earlier...

The problem with A View To A Kill is that Roger Moore wasn't a fast running man anymore. Time passes even for James Bond. The history has its good points, some memorable shoots (firetruck in San Francisco, chasing Grace Jones on Paris and others), but the action is in somewhat slow motion. Not what you would expect from a Bond movie. The DVD is fine, as all the others on this series, with interesting extras. Would've benn much better if Moore were a few year younger.

2012-05-20 12:57:00

Bond bakes quiche, saves microchip industry!!!!!!!

This review's title is, sadly, true. The hopelessly aged Roger Moore pairs up with the second-worst Bond girl ever (Tanya Roberts, who does give "Golden Gun's" "Mary Goodnight" a serious run for her money as the worst...), and 80's icon Grace Jones, to give us Bond fans this: THE bad Bond movie to end all bad Bond movies.Sure, the action sequences (at least some) are very, very good. Also, this movie features Christopher Walken who, along with Diana Rigg, Judi Dench and Halle Berry, is one of the greatest actors to ever support Bond. Walken is maniacally interesting, although painfully under-developed as a character. This movie also features the legendary "Avenger" Patric Macnee ("John Steed"), as the obligatory "sacrificial lamb" a la "From Russia's" Kerim Bey. The present of John Steed notwithstanding, this movie is sunk from the get-go, and one figures that not even Emma Peel could save it...The movie starts out with a ridiculous sampling of The Beach Boys'"California Girl's", while Bond beats the bad guys and boards a MI6 submarine decorated like a bachelor pad, complete with a bimbo-looking "agent". This scene is, to my mind, the absolute nadir of the Bond series: Roger Moore has finally done it, given a then-young Mike Myers the inspiration to spoof this legendary series and this legendary character. It doesn't get better, either. A San Francisco cop answers Moore's "Bond. James Bond" with "Yeah, and I'm Dick Tracy!" Unbelievable!!! The kitsch level is so insufferably high, and Moore's ridiculous un-Bondian mugging makes it all the more insufferably so. Of course, as this review's title indicates, the 60+ year old Bond gives us a whiff of domesticity, actually baking a quiche...! Thankfully, this would be Mr. Moore's final appearance as Bond. Thankfully, the under-appreciated Timothy Dalton would rescue this series from itself, and set up Pierce Brosnan's blockbuster performances as Bond...

2012-05-19 18:58:50

A View To A Thrill !

Just a great film.Outstanding villians (Christopher Walken And Grace Jones) as Max Zorin and May Day but it is unfortunate to say the opposite about Roger Moore. At aged 57 his perfomance as bond is subdued and is not up to his usual standards. Good plot with some nice touches such as Miss Moneypenny(Lois Maxwells last apperance as the character)being able to join M,Q and bond "in the field" at ascot ladies day.A superb ending to this film see's Bond and Zorin fight it out on top of the golden gate bridge. A great film backed up by a superb score by John Barry. A good ending to Roger Moores 12 year stint as 007.

2012-05-17 05:18:19

Weakest of the franchise

Some Bond films are excellent (From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball) some are good (Goldeneye, The Living Daylights, The Spy who Loved Me) and some are just awful. Which brings us to A View to a Kill. This lacklustre addition to the franchise is plain..., with boring, laboured action, a hackneyed plot (some rubbish about computer chips and silicon valley) and puerile dialogue. The only good points in this film are Christopher Walken as Zorin, the main villain and Grace Jones as his assistant. Regardless, Walken's villain is one of the weakest in the series and Grace Jones looks somewhat out of place in this film. And it has to be said that Roger Moore by 1985 was too old to be Bond. However, it's good that Timothy Dalton didn't take this one to be his first outing as Bond and turned up in the superior The Living Daylights or his movie career would have finished before it started.

2012-05-16 18:06:27

Moore's final may be his best!

I have all the bonds movies on DVD, but every time I see one on tv I catch myself watching them. Yes, some are better than others, but all and all it's still Bond and A View to a Killis no expection. I enjoyed it start to finish just like every Bond. Roger Moore was never to old to play Bond in my book. I would give this movie ten stars if I could!

Oscargod 2012-05-13 14:04:37

What the hell happened?

I am one of the biggest Bond fans of all time, and I have tried to see eachand every one of them. When I saw this one, I realized that just becausesomething says "Bond" on it, doesn't mean it is necessarily any good.Despite the taught and seductive title song, this whole venture seemedtiresome and pointless. The story had great potential, but it is never used.Christopher Walken, believe it or not, is actually one of the worst Bondvillians ever, with and ugly space in his teeth and blond hair. To me, heseemed to geeky to be threatening. Without a good villian, the whole moviefelt second-rate. The Bond girl was a horrid actor, and the henchmen were avery bland bunch. Luckily, the series got back on track with The LivingDaylights.

johnnyboyz 2012-05-13 07:15:22

Strained blend of cartoonish aesthetics with a general sense of menace; Moore starred in better and Glen made better, this hovers somewhere around what's not acceptable.

The precredits sequence is where we begin with A View to a Kill, as isstandard for the Bond movies; in this one, he is infiltrating an icyarea nowhere-Siberia so as to find and recover a small microchipanother double-0 agent had attained before being killed. Bond does so,as is expected, and upon finding it hidden in a pendulum the guy worearound his neck, tosses aside the picture of his wife and child for thereal reason Roger Moore's hero is even there. Such an action epitomisesthis edition, the film that signalled the end of Moore's seven filmtenure and around about the peak period of Glen's tenure at the helmappears as a whole lot more interested in casually placing to the sidethe heartfelt and humane characteristics of the predicament forbusiness as usual, business encapsulated by that chip. Following this,there is a brief skirmish during which Bond manages to find his wayback to an Allied rendez-vous point through snow and ice, via cantedangles out of the sun that come complete with lens flare as hesnowboards over ridges to The Beach Boys, before getting out of dodgein the company of one of MI6's more luscious-looking Navy employees.The opening encapsulates the fact that the film is a bit of a cartoon,a weak comic book adventure with the odd glowing moment. I'd be lyingif I said there wasn't some fun to be had out of some of the film'ssecond unit work - the often pumping Barry score, which combines oldfashioned orchestral bursts with then-contemporary discharges ofelectric guitar, is often good value and the narrative is a lot easierto keep up when compared to some of Moore's previous entries. It is,however, mostly disappointing – the moment the film arrives in SanFransisco and laments upon us the J.W. Pepper of The Sunshine State inJoe Flood's SFPD police Captain, plus badly executed comedic cop carchase, the moment it shoots its bolt and misses.Things kick off in earnest when Bond makes it back to London followingthe opening only to be greeted by some laborious exposition on thesituation. Following this, everybody darts off to the races - asequence allowing a certain Max Zorin (Walken) to be introduced viaanother avalanche of exposition and firmly reiterating we're notanywhere near the domains of something like 1976's Marathon Man, whichtook time and effort in creating a character behind Olivier's villainthrough its props and setting and such. It is revealed Zorin is heavierinto the world of horse racing than most; a billionaire businessman,and after some brief romping around on the Continent, Bond heads to hisremote agricultural domain of well dressed patrons and racing studs inorder to infiltrate and deduce whilst under the guise of a wealthyEnglishman (complete with indelible alias) to investigate.Armed with a side-kick named Tibbett (Macnee), Bond uncovers a sordidplot to do with the scientific experimentation on horses that allowsthem to win most races they enter; if we didn't already feel thosethrongs of mistrust and menace about Walken's character, the fact heabuses animals ought to be enough to pine to a side of the audiencewhich sways them into somewhat despising him. At the festivities, andas Bond's guise of cover begins to come under threat, we observeseparate fight scenes instigated by both Moore's character, which hewins easily, and that of his adversary Zorin whose aggressivegirlfriend May Day (Jones) is beaten in man-to-man combat alluding to acommon, equal combative link. As is often the case, something Bondinvestigates, which is seemingly small and features an eccentric tycoonup to no good, expands into something a lot larger. Here, Zorin's planis dealt out to cohorts and the audience alike in a fashion akin to thevillain of Goldfinger in the film entitled as such as a room full ofbusiness partners get the low down away from one lone individual'srequest to be cut adrift, a lone individual who is expansivelyeliminated. The plan is more broadly linked to flooding a stretch ofEarth which he believes will eliminate cooperate opposition.Mixed in is a reasonably fun sub-plot to do with Zorin having turnedhis back on the KGB, of whom created him and nurtured him out ofcertain sordid scientific backgrounds echoing that of what he does tohis race horses. Their own war that they wage on him offers some meeksupport to Bond fumbling through the motions and this plot reaches abit of a crescendo when our hero steals some vital information on thecase from a Russian agent equivalent of whom he recognises from someyears back, but we are not even granted the trivial thrill of it beingsomeone along the lines of Barbara Bach's Soviet agent from The Spy WhoLove Me, which it could so easily and realistically been. Popping up isTanya Roberts' Stacey Sutton and her subplot revolving around Zorin, aCalifornian native playing Bond's screaming blonde damsel to Zorin'sdominatrix May Day; a woman who's strong and independent in the maledominated working zones of America's West Coast but struggles in thedepartment of hard bodiedness when faced with taking Zorin downphysically - a character desperately needing some of the vitalityexpressed by For Your Eyes Only's Melina Havelock. The film is notwithout its fair share of engagement but lacks an overall sense ofcompetence; it is interesting, in hindsight and having seen Moore'sBond films afresh, that those which focused on Cold War elements arethe better ones, with excursions off to stop cooperate billionaires andoutcasts making a nuisance of things alá Moonraker or The Man With theGolden Gun falling a little flat. Here is another, a flakey and flimsyadventure rounding off a sporadically successful stretch for Moore andthe series as a whole.

2012-05-13 22:17:21

Roger Moore-Just Take Your Pension!!

It was, simply, just a mediocre movie all the way around. Roger Moore was way too old. One day, as I was sitting at my house with my friend, I was flipping through the channels on the TV while he was talking to me. I saw "View To A Kill" on one of the channels. Even my friend, who had only seen maybe one Bond movie in his life (a Brosnan movie), asked how a guy that looked as old as his grandpa could play someone like Bond. He had this image in his mind of someone like Bond, and geriatric Roger Moore went against it. And one other thing. I read something in a newspaper maybe a year ago that "Pierce Brosnan is too old in the eyes of the producers. The 51-year old's license to kill was revoked." Pierce Brosnan is too old to play Bond at AGE 51. Obviously, the same didn't apply a 58-Year-Old Roger Moore in this movie. And Brosnan was a better Bond than Roger Moore. Roger Moore seemed like, out of all the Bond, he made his movies seem like comedies. These aren't comedies! These are Bond movies! And one last thing-to all you people who dislike Timothy Dalton as Bond-like it or not, Timothy Dalton was, by far, the most realistic Bond out of all the guys who have played Bond thus far. And he was, BY FAR, the guy who portrayed the literary James Bond the closest. If you Dalton haters would pick up one of the Bond novels and do some ACTUAL reading (which it seems like is very tough for many people in today's society to do), you would figure this out. I'm not saying Dalton was the greatest cinematic Bond ever, but he certainly does have those other two things working in his favor.

Aaron1375 2012-05-13 03:40:32

Moore's last outing not bad, but nothing special.

I enjoyed this one to a certain degree, but it is definately not Moore'sbest Bond flick in fact it is probably the weakest. The problem is not Bondor Walken who do superb jobs, or even Grace Jones, but the story is just notthat great. Bond on a fire truck is just to much. Also, Tanya Roberts justisn't a Bond girl. Nothing against her, she just doesn't seem to be thetype, kind of like Denise Richards in "The World Is Not Enough". That saidthere are some good action scenes in this one, but all Bond movies have goodaction sequences and the bad guys motives are interesting to. It is justhard to pinpoint though why I don't like this one as much there is justsomething about it. Though interesting side note...this is the movie thatreally started the snowboarding craze.

IbukBlofeld007 2012-05-10 00:59:16

No Moore please!!

AVTAK I consider to be the worst Roger Moore Bond movie. I feel thatyou can always tell a good Bond movie from its opening sequence, TSWLMhad the fabulous ski chase resulting in a marvellous scene where wethink Bond is going to die and was a great Bond movie. AVTAK has apretty bad opening sequence with Moore trying to retrieve a necklace.Almost every Bond movie has a standout scene that instantly comes tokind when I think of the movie AVTAK has none. Then we have Roger Moorewho was approaching his 60's looked much too old and thereforeunconvincing as Bond. It's not just Moore who was looking worn out, themovie itself looked very tired compared to the other Bond flicks of the80's. AVTAK basically consists of one uninteresting scene afteranother. God bless those producers who realised their mistake andreplaced Moore with Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylight which was amuch better Bond movie. The action sequences looked rather uninspiredwhich is another major flaw. Max Zorin's scheme to raid Silicon Valleyseems rather feeble compared to other Bond meglomaniacs like Stromberg,Blofeld etc. I read a review on Youtube which said AVTAK plot resemblesthat of Goldfinger's and now that I have thought about it I think AVTAKis kind of modelled on Goldfinger. Goldfinger planned to raid Fort Knoxwhilst in AVTAK it's Silicon Valley. Zorin had a female accomplice inthe form of Mayday who suddenly turns good towards the end, Goldfingerhad Pussy Galore. To its credit it has a pretty good theme tune andalso has Christopher Walken's performance as Max Zorin(woefullyunderrated in my opinion). If only Roger Moore had realised he was fartoo old for Bond then us Bond fans wouldn't have had to endure thisludricous misfire.

2012-05-09 20:14:16

Your Heart Goes Out for Roger

Your heart kind of went out for Roger in this one. Roger did not exactly have a befitting outing in this film and it being his last Bond film, he deserved better. There were a few memorable scenes that I did like just the same. John Barry's score did capture these elegiac scenes with great feeling and endearment and that is the way it should have been. Well done.After Bond is chased into the woods on horseback and is captured, Bond tells Zorin that there will be retaliation if they kill him. "You amuse me Mister Bond," says Zorin with indifference. "The feeling's not mutual," responds Bond. After that scene I was hoping that Bond would really put this fellow out of his misery. The one image that remains with me from this film is when Bond carries Stacey on his back climbing down the fire truck ladder rescuing her from the burning City Hall. As sentimental as that scene may have looked it hearkened back to a time in films when heroes really were heroes. Roger did a fine job during his tenure.

2012-05-07 03:32:26

OK 007 film.

Maybe the weakest 007 film. Roger Moore's plays James Bond for the last time. Despite the thrilling opening sequence, the movie looks a bit tired.Christopher Walken is great as the Psychotic manian who tries to flood the San Andreas fault. Beauty Grace Jones spices up the film as May Day. Also starring Tanya Roberts.

ahmed elshikh 2012-05-06 09:31:45

Horrible Horrible Bond !

Why this movie is provocatively so nasty ? Let's begin with the opening scene. It's nothing but repeating its likein (The Spy Who Loved Me - 1977) for (Moore) also yet in so weak way !and since when do they repeat the opening scenes in movies used toexcel at making matchless intros ?!! Bond's cover here had been discovered in a very idiot way too ! Not tomention how (Moore) seemed so old and weary to be in Action or toseduce babies. He was 58 years old at the time but strangely enough helooked older. So at the end of the opening's sequence while he wasgoing to have a good time with a young girl you'd veto him starkly "Howyou'll gonna do it grandpa" ?!! Here you'd never believe any kind of"Action" he does especially with visible stunt for him all the time ! This is the only movie for Bond which required from him to has ahomosexual experience since I didn't consider (Grace Jones) as a womanin the first place ! casting her as an evil Bond girl was historicalfatal mistake, one of the stupidest decisions I've ever witness, and alousy try to attract the pervert audience.In fact Bond movies for me was a chance to watch some of the mostbeautiful voluptuous girls ever, but since the 1970s it became a chanceof watching some of beautiful girls only ! and since the 1980s itbecame a chance of watching some girls anyway ! BUT here OH MY GOD(Jones) is not a girl or even close ! She looked with those creepycostumes and that awful haircut as more horrible than the movie itself! Truly I've had some time till I became convinced of her as really nota MAN. She's not the most dreadful woman I've seen in the whole seriesonly ..She's the ugliest creature I've ever seen in my life ! She's thebogeywoman for god's sake ! (Lois Maxwell) as (Moneypenny) was 58 years old so any sexual innuendowas close to bad tasting. Even (Tanya Roberts) was frigid and not sexyenough, or at least not sexy enough to make us forget about theeffective bad tasting of (Grace Jones)'s presence.(Christopher Walken) was one talented factor here as maybe the craziestevil man appeared at Bond's but it's lost performance at movie wasn'tforgettable inasmuch as being better forgotten !The music of (John Barry) was the best thing for sure, and the title'ssong was superb but maybe was too young for that Bond ! The actionsequences looked exhausted and fake so the climax's sequence forexample was overtly exposed as one had been done in a studio. (JohnGlen) directed 5 Bond movies this is definitely their rock-bottom.It was run-down, nearly the worst bond ever, and some clever jinx whichsucceeded at cursing all the series to shut it dawn for some yearsafter (only 2 movies in the next 10 years), despite any talking aboutthe controversy of owning the rights as the actual reason.. Don't youever believe it .. It's (Grace Jones) and her view which killed usviolently !

Peter Harrison 2012-05-04 17:52:21

Licence To A Pension

'A View To A kill' is the last of Roger Moore'sefforts as 007, and it's probably his worst!Everything from the plot, to the casting, leavea lot to be desired.Roger Moore was too old for the role at thispoint, and the producers should have brought ina newer face.The casting of Tanya Roberts was a mistake asshe never looked convincing when coming outwith dialogue.The plus points however are the castings ofPatrick MacNee and Christopher Walken. MacNeehad some humourous moments, and Walkenbasically is the reason to watch this film.Walken is much younger in this film, and hisperformance as 'Max Zorin' is menacingthroughout.The sets and locations are very nice, andalthough there are many flaws in this film,there are still some entertaining actionsequences (The Eiffel Tower, The Golden GateBridge) etc.Overall, one for the easily pleased, and notone for die-hard James Bond fans.

vip_ebriega 2012-05-04 10:30:30

The usual Bond formula, but still very enjoyable.

My Take: Goes by the usual Bond movie formula, but this time, much moreenjoyable than the previously appalling OCTOPUSSY. After staying on screen for numerous years in the role of James Bond,Roger Moore does his final performance with this film. "A View to aKill" is actually does the usual expectations for a 007 flick. Bond issent thwart the plots of maniacal industrialist Max Zorin (ChristopherWalken) to flood California's Silicon Valley by breaking the SanAndreas Fault. It's simply as expected, but there is still enoughaction to keep a Bond fan glued to their seat.Moore is getting too old, but still keeps the suave charms of JamesBond. Christopher Walken is deliciously psychopathic (he is THEChristopher Walken after all). The Bond girls (Tanya Roberts and GraceJones) aren't much good though. Roberts, despite being gorgeous, isbland while Grace Jones is just dreadful. But the film has a lot ofexciting moments. There's the opening sequence, where Bond narrowlyescapes a helicopter while skiing through Russian ice landscape. Butthe best would be the final showdown atop the Golden Gate Bridge.Director John Glen almost nearly makes up for the plot. But among theelements that make it worthwhile is the title song by Duran Duran, oneof my favorite Bond themes.Overall, it's not the disappointment that others dismiss it. While itscompletely formula and almost forgettable once you've seen it, I like"A View to a Kill", a decent end to Moore's tenure as the Britishsuper-spy.Rating: ***1/2 out of 5.

2012-05-02 15:31:39

Strictly OK.

Moore's farewell to the Bond series is mediocre at best. This is notbecause he looks old, it is because the film is slow , unlike itspredecessor Octopussy , which was fast and entertaining. Here , thingsjust don't happen. The pacing is a bit slow. While the central theme ofthe film is very similar to Goldfinger, it fails to rise to the heightsof that masterpiece. WHile Moore acts with his usual vigour and aplomb, Tanya Robers isdownright awful with her screaming "James" every few minutes. Mayday isbetter than her of course. Christopher Walken is good as the villainZorin. Though the film starts out with a good action sequence, subsequently,there is little action in the film. The climactic action scene couldhave been better edited. The mine scene is good though. All in all , anOK Bond film to watch ,i.e. if you have seen all the others. But hell,Moore should have quit with the terrific OCTOPUSSY.

2012-05-01 16:03:18

Good

I just dont understand Roger Moore isnt old at all he looks the same as if he was in Live and Let Die the movie its self was very good the villan was the best and the fight in top of the Golden Gate Bridge was JAW BROPPING