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A View to a Kill

A View to a Kill

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My first Bond movie and my favorite!
Review: My virst Bond movie was "A View To A Kill". It was Roger Moore's last. I really enjoyed it. Roger Moore had his very own style to 007 and this movie was that at it's best. I enjoyed the story very much. While it's not on the list of the best Bond films with most fans, it's one of the more fun Moore Bond films to watch if you want to sit back and just enjoy a movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: From Bond 14 to Bond 20
Review: This is the 14th Bond film in the Series starring Roger Moore.

Here is some info on Bond 20 starring Pierce Brosnan

Latest news on Bond 20, no name yet, but here is the cast list

JAMES BOND - Pierce Brosnan
Gala Brand - Rosamund Pike
Jinx - Halle Berry
Jack Wade - Joe Don Baker
Miss Moneypenny - Samantha Bond
M - Dame Judi Dench
Q - John Cleese
Tanner - Michael Kitchen
Nurse Warmflash - Serena Scott Thomas
Robinson - Colin Salmon
Admiral Roebuck - Geoffrey Palmer

Some of the cast does not have confirmed roles

Produced by Michael G Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
Music by David Arnold
Production Designer Peter Lamont
SFX supervisor Chris Corbould
Action Unit Director Vic Armstrong
Executive Producer Anthony Waye
Costumes By Lindy Hemming
Directed By Lee Tamahori

Currently being made by EON productions, at Pinewood Studios in London
Will be released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer & United Artists
Christmas 2002

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: "...little imagination, but is still entertaining."
Review: Aging Moore is barely believable as Bond in his seventh and last outing, with 007 up against maniac Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) who plans to destroy Silicon Valley. A film as tired as Moore, with little imagination, but is still entertaining, with spectacular stunts. Tanya Roberts is absolutely gorgeous, but her character is hollow, as is Walken's. Grace Jones is good as Mayday, and Patrick Macnee (Steed!) is delightful as Sir Godfrey Tibbett. Excellent score, and great title song by Duran Duran.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Last Good 007 Film Period.
Review: I tend to regard all the 007 films that took place after this as dismal failures. This was the last good one of the bunch. It had a good villian (Christopher Walken) who wants to destroy Silicon Valley (Grace Jones) as a woman who is the villian's hand at assissinations. Tanya Roberts as the lady who aids James in this last adventure, and Roger Moore who gave us one last good outing as 007 with a final fight climax on top of the Golden Gate Bridge. You can't top that and no later 007 film has. This was also the last 007 movie where John Barry scored the music.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I Don't Know Why, But It's One Of My Favorites!
Review: A View To A Kill is a sadly underrated Bond adventure. It isn't overlong and boring, and some reveiwers say. In fact, it's quite action packed and barely ever lets up for a minute. Moore, Roger Moore departs from the series with great style. I still fail to understand what people so hate about this movie. It's my favorite Moore film, and in fact it's one of my favorites of the whole series. I really, really liked Tanya Roberts in this one, and feel she's undeserving of such negative reveiws. I liked her character because she WASN'T all exotic like most Bond girls. She had a regular job at city hall. She had a house, a cat. You don't see many Bond girls with things like that. They're usually really exotic and unrealistic, but Tanya Roberts had a realistic character. And boy! She can sure scream! Also, Christopher Walken makes a menacing villian, very good job. Grace Jones is terrific as the female villian, Mayday. Alison Doody (Doody? Nice name) of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, has a small part as Jenny Flex ("Of course you are") and does good in a very breif role. Also, look out for the great Patrick MacNee in a small, yet pivitol, role as Sir. Tibbet, a horse expert. Roger Moore is great as Bond, and stays on my list of best Bonds, right next to Mr. Connery. Moore is great, he's funny, exciting. And, also worth talking about is the terrific Golden Gate Bridge finale, which I think is the best of the series, I'm really scared of heights. So, all in all, View To A Kill is a pretty good entry, worth checking out.

It begins in Siberyia, where Bond recovers a chip from the frozen body of 002, and proceeds to one of my favorite ski chases ever, as the "Beach Boys" song, "California Girls" plays. It doesn't make much sense, but it's sure pretty hilarious. After escaping, he makes his way to Paris, where he meets with M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny, who go to a race track to watch Max Zorin (Christopher Walken). His horse wins the race with amazing speed, leading Bond on a mission to find out how the horse is capable of such amazing speed. It turns out that Zorin is drugging the horse with some device that they can activate with the push of a button. After trying to kill Bond, and beleving they've succeeded, Zorin and Mayday (Grace Jones) move on to San Francisco to plan project Main Strike, which will destroy Sillicon Valley. Meanwhile, Bond teams with sexy Stacie Sutton (Tanya Roberts) to thwart Zorin's plans and save the world.

A View To A Kill is simply great, and, as with the other Bond films, it gets the royal treatment on DVD, with lots of extra features, as well as great picture and sound. So what if the sound's not 5.1? Who cares? Not me, I'm fine with the sound used on the DVD (I beleive it's mono), and the picture's sharp and good. Features include an informative Making-Of documentary, with lots of information and cool interviews, as well as an audio commentary, a documentary about the James Bond film music, a music video (the first one of all the series) and a deleted scene intitled "The Jail House", where we watch Bond get out of jail (he's in jail for all the damages he caused during the wacky car chase near the beggining) by M. Bond makes a guard very angry when the guard fools around with his equipment. It's a pretty OK scene, but it doesn't warrant restoration into the film itself, still, it's interesting to see (more deleted scenes can be found on the Living Daylights and Diamonds Are Forever DVDs). You also get a very basic collectible booklet, and the proper 2:85:1 widescreen anamorphic format.

Well, what more could you ask for? A great movie, on a great DVD. Hihley recommended!


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A View To A THRILL!!!!
Review: What can I say? It is simply a timeless classic. The action never stops and the girls are SO perfect, I can't explain it. Zorin (Christopher Walker) is extremealy good at his role, and keeps the movie up and running. So take my advice, GET THIS MOVIE!!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A View to a Kill
Review: I had a reaction similar to gottlibschaller. I also liked the movie without any particular compelling reason to. Maybe because Silicon Valley is more or less close to home. When Moore did "For Your Eyes Only," it was Greece and Switzerland and he and Carole Buquet were trying to get some junk from the bottom of the sea. In contrast, the Silicon Valley... now that's something worth protecting and fighting for. The view of the Golden Gate bridge and the SF bay is... see the title. The stunts are good. And Grace Jones' character is a victim of love and international intrigue. So what else do you need? Perhaps a somewhat younger James Bond.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Classic Bond
Review: Great music, beautiful women, exotic locations, fancy gadgets - that's what a James Bond movie is to me, and this edition excels in almost all areas. From the opening skiing scene (not quite as thrilling as the ski scene that opens The Spy Who Loved Me, but nonetheless - ), to the very cool Duran Duran theme song, the entire film is standard Bond fare.

The great thing about Roger Moore's version of James Bond in this film is the tongue-in-cheek approach he takes. It's a Bond that doesn't take himself too seriously, yet still manages to wear a tux wherever possible.

There's a chase scene early on that starts in a French restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, runs up to the top of the tower, parachutes off and continues through the streets of Paris.

(I remember when this movie was first released, and Roger Moore appeared as a guest on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" to promote it. He had a clip from the end of this particular chase scene, when Bond was in a small French car whose top was shorn off, and the back end was knocked off by a passing vehicle - adding new importance to "front wheel drive" in what was left of the car that Bond continued to drive through the Parisian streets. At the end of the clip, Johnny was laughing very hard and it led into a big discussion of the over-the-top Bond approach to chase scenes. I remember it well.)

Bond is sent to investigate suspicious activities at the location of a beautiful European castle on a palatial and breathtaking estate that makes watching the film worthwhile. The grounds are the home of Zorin, played by the striking Christopher Walken, who ultimately proves to be the Bad Guy. (Walken? The Bad Guy? Big Surprise there!) The castle is amazing, the views are impressive, and the social activities are grand. It's here that Bond first runs into a mysterious beautiful woman, played by the dreamy Tanya Roberts, who eventually proves to be the primary love interest in the film.

Zorin's plot is eventually revealed: an artificially induced earthquake in Silicon Valley which will destroy the world's primary source of microchips, leaving Zorin's own microchip factory as the sole supplier, a major step toward world domination.

The planned destruction involves deliberate tampering with the fault lines in California. As a result, the film takes you to deep caverns and excavation sites, dirigibles high over the city, and a breathtaking fight scene on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge.

It's classic Bond in the best sense. It'll never win an Oscar, but it's a fun movie.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A View To A Spill
Review: I first saw "A View To A Kill" when it came out in the theatres in 1985. This movie qualifies as one of the very worst James Bond films.

James Bond(Roger Moore) battles psychotic industrialist Max Zorin(Christopher Walken), who wants to destroy Silicon Valley and corner the world market on computer chips.

"A View To A Kill" is a failure. This film is arguably the second worst Bond film after "Moonraker." If anything, "A View To A Kill" is the most soulless and glassy of all the Bond pictures. Unlike a quest for world domination, a villain's efforts to corner the world market on computer chips do not provide an intriguing foundation for a Bond film. In addition, I will never fully understand why the bland Roger Moore was allowed to make seven James Bond films. "A View To A Kill" featured Moore in his last outing as James Bond and he was clearly showing his age in this picture; he should have retired from the role after the vastly superior "Octopussy." Tanya Roberts is an instantly forgettable Bond woman. Exotic henchwoman Grace Jones fails to make the film any more interesting. Patrick "John Steed" Macnee is underused as Bond's cohort.

Christopher Walken is the only factor that comes close to being a saving grace in this picture. Walken's Max Zorin is slightly more interesting than Moore's James Bond. I am sorry that the screenwriters didn't further develop Walken's character; he is basically only allowed to giggle hysterically and act psychotic. Walken may be the very last of the screen's great villains. With his gaunt frame, haunted big eyes, and almost pale complexion, he is a natural bad guy. Walken is the only present day movie villain who comes close to matching the glory days of such great screen heavies as Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Jack Palance.

"A View To A Kill" is only for Christopher Walken fans and those who feel that they need to see every James Bond film. A disappointment.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: moore is old
Review: I am sorry to day that this film features Roger Moore looking every inch jis age. That aside, he seems more animated and alive as James Bond in his final apearence than he has since The Spy Whon lOVED ME. I applaud him for a job well done, andf say not the nest movie but entertaining enough


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