![]() Between Bond and May Day's escapades through the mines of Silicon Valley to the climactic battle over the Golden Gate Bridge, the movie does have a fun finale. That being said, the movie ends with a few fun back-to-back set pieces. Everything looks nice - the locations are beautiful, the cars and outfits are top-notch, and the performances are almost all spot on, the movie is just a slog. It's as though director John Glen felt no urgency to direct the film's down moments with a sense of intrigue or romance. Every moment in between the shootouts and chase scenes generously drags. Yeah, the first 30 minutes of a film should be setting the stakes, introducing the villain, and housing a few action scenes, but by the time everything is ready to go it feels like the movie has been on for over an hour. Okay, so we're in good hands, right? Well, that'd be the case if the movie weren't moving at a glacial pace. ![]() So A View to a Kill opens a bit shoddily with a terrible Beach Boys needle drop and an uncomfortable age gap between Bond and his lover, but it saves itself by moving on to a fun chase through Paris and establishes an unintentionally hilarious villain. The film's general interest in microchips is set, and its eyes become locked on one primary antagonist - Christopher Walken's Max Zorin It's a wonderful showcase of both physical performance and stunt drivers absolutely killing it in their fields. Bond's car gets smashed to bits, but he manages to stay on her tail for the majority of his hunt. Early on, there's a chase scene in Paris with Bond and May Day that goes over great. Sheesh.įrom there, the movie does actually ground itself in some real Bond-isms for a bit. Follow this up with Duran Duran's aimless, shrugged-off titular theme "A View to a Kill", and you'll realize what a stinker you're locked in for. Bond (let me reiterate, played by a 57-year-old Moore) manages to get away in a submarine, where he and a woman much, much younger than him become involved in some steamy activities. I like some ham, don't get me wrong, but this scene just about made my head explode. Just when you're locked in enough and think that View is going to play things a bit straighter than the franchise's unintentionally laughable moments, Bond starts snowboarding down the mountain and a cover of "California Girls" by the Beach Boys fires up. ![]() RELATED: The Most Underrated James Bond Movie Was Made During the Writers Strike 'A View to a Kill' Is One of the Worst Bond Movies ![]() All the action and beautiful locals that you come to expect out of a Bond movie are here. Rounding out the heavy hitters are Zorin's henchwoman, May Day ( Grace Jones), the latest Bond girl in Stacy Sutton ( Tanya Roberts), and a new ally with Godfrey Tibbett ( Patrick Macnee). View follows James Bond hot on the trails of Max Zorin, a mega-rich industrialist working in the "fascinating" world of microchips who plans on eliminating the competition in his field by destroying Silicon Valley. It would be the 14th official entry in the franchise, not counting '67's Casino Royale and '83's Never Say Never Again, both of which were non-EON productions. Roger Moorehas filled Bond's shoes for 12 years now, and the newly released A View to a Kill would be his last swing as the iconic secret agent. ![]()
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