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Rating:  -
When I first saw this film on its initial release I didn't know what to make of it. It seemed like it got its inspiration from GOLDFINGER and Ian Fleming's Bond novel MOONRAKER. However, it was like a jumble of everything thrown up in the air and played out in the order in which they landed. Actions just seem to turn on a dime in this film. For example: Bond is being chased down an ice-covered slope by Soviet troops in Siberia all to an exciting John Barry score. This is an excellent scene. A gattling gun mounted on a Soviet helicopter blows the ski mobile right out from under Bond. He picks himself up, grabs the runner from the ski mobile and begins to ski board down the slope this time to the musical accompaniment of the Beach Boys' "California Girls." What happened to John Barry's score? The scene and all its dramatic tension are destroyed, yet it seems to work much better today, 21 years latter.
The film looked a bit sloppy. The stunt doubles are not always matched to Roger Moore very professionally. His hair colour seems to go from brown to straw to red. In one scene when Bond is chasing May Day through Paris in a borrowed taxi, there is one camera shot where you can see that it is definitely not Roger Moore. The fight scene where Bond and Sir Godfrey wrap up some of Zorin's guards in the warehouse has to rank at the bottom of the series. The editing couldn't even salvage it.
However, your heart kind of went out for Roger in this one. He didn't have a good outing in this picture and it being his last Bond film, he perhaps deserved better. There were a few memorable scenes that do make this film a good one. 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 corny 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.
After Bonds have come and gone through the years A VIEW TO A KILL somehow still entertains more with each passing year.
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There seems to be two schools of thought on this film. One says that one loves the actors, vilian, etc. The other says this movie is shockingly awful.
I think of the third, it is a work of its time.
My reason to revisit this film was because of the computers in it. I heard there was a Commadore 64, my elder brother's first computer, in there (false). Actually, there's a lot of technology in this film. I also wanted to see this film because I have a good friend called Max who looks a lot like Max Zorrin.
Why? Probably because after the phenomenon of more 'mainstream' (think Star Wars) Moonraker, and the less than as spectatular Octopussy, MGM tried again to jump on the bandwagon of current fads and create a film that fit in with more 'modern' times in the blind hope it would equal another smash hit. This is why to some degree it looks VERY dated.
1980s related themes and techniques include evil greedy business tycoons and corporate branding (Zorrin), the round, balding Mayor and display of city hall (Like in Ghostbusters), Cop-related humour (Police Acadamy and similar movies), Computers and technology, Wide shots to fast zooms then cutting to a closeup (the man with the fishing boat after Zorrin drained the lake), the name 'Stacey'.
If one takes the above into account then the movie and what is included makes far more sense. The plot itself is quite intelligent and holds up even today.
What does not hold up is the casting. There were some really bad shots of Moore in this film- he did look nearly geriatric, like when he looked around the corner as he snuck into City Hall once or twice. Some have said he seemed to be just walking through the film to get his next paycheck: I agree. He didn't seem nearly interested in Zorrin's activites to have gone to the lengths that his character, Bond, did. There is no way in the world that Timothy Dalton should have been given the role- one might as well have cast a manequin rather than make people suffer through one of his performances...this movie needed humour to soften the hard edges of Zorrin. Every bond film needs humour to differentiate it from every other run-of-the-mill action film, so people see it doesn't take itself to seriously as it isn't written to be 100% realistic. This is why Christopher Walken's performance of Zorrin does not hold up. The man is supposed to be a psychopath, but Walken's performance is far to introverted to prove that he is one. Bond baddies overdo it...look at Blowfeld, Goldfinger, Alex Trevalyn, Eliot Calver. They all have a wild, angry steak and a spark in their eye when things to their way (Electra King was an acception- just icy but very sexy). Zorrin was neither. Zorrin's performance to me said, "I am bored to be just a step away from carrying out my plans to destroy Silicon Valley". His role should have been similar to Calver's role- very visonary and not so ponsey. For Zorrin to have made it to the top of the KGB the way that he was is far to astonishing.
Walken's performance gave the impression that Zorrin was more interested in flying in blimps than in destroying Silicon Valley- the look on his face when he saw the bridge with May Day and seeing Silicon Valley before he throught it would be flooded was far more convicing than the rest of his potrayal, with one acception.
The relationship between May Day and Zorrin in the single scene they had just together was very strong, and in my view far too strong for him to just leave her to die at the end. Zorrin showed far more interest in the relationship than May Day did, who snapped her teeth at him as he tried to kiss her. However, he was more than obliging to send her to sleep with Bond when she asked if she should join him.
Next problem is the character development. Stacey was just a SC-REAM...don'tcha think? All that screaming just wanted me to grab her shoulders and give her a GOOD SHAKE. Why was May Day on Bond's and her's tail in the mineshaft? Because she SCREAMED.
The backflip by May Day was also unrealistic. Grace Jones, who has quite a filmography, must have done the best she could with May Day's furied backflip at the end. Despite her undying loyalty to Zorrin, she quickly backflips at the end and calls him a 'jerk' and kamakazis with the bomb to get revenge on him.
Some plot leads just died. When the guy from Washington was abducted in his own car, he was never, nor 'going to washington', mentioned again.
The theme was reasonable- not the best theme by a long shot. It was the second best theme of the decade in my view, Ah-ha's "The Living Daylights" far more musical.
Editing wasn't fantastic. This film ran for two hours! It should have only run for 90 minutes, really, 90 is enough.
Memories warp events. But mine was about right on how good the film was. The blimp explosion at the end and the plot involving the mine wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was, but the potrayal of Zorrin not as frenzied as I recalled.
My aim was to see old computers (yes, I go on old computer websites and spend hours looking at old computers...it's fun). I saw them, and saw particular computers doing things that they could and would never do (same thing happened in Goldeneye). I also saw the awesomness of Grace Jones and the her wonderful (but sometimes very dated) costuming- as a devil at Zorrin's Horse fair for example.
This film is definetly worth watching, but, that alone does not make it a 5 Star film.
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I love "A View to a Kill"! It is in my Top 5 Bond movies ever made. The villains are stupendous, Christopher Walken (as Nazi superbaby industrialist Max Zorin) and Grace Jones (as Amazonian assassin May Day) could be among the best in the series. Many people hate Tanya Roberts. I don't see much of a problem. Her character is that of a girl that was definitely spoiled when she was younger and never had to fend for herself until Zorin's scheme to flood Silicon Valley using his oil wells, which again, an over-the-top scheme that is more acceptable than lets say Stromberg's or Drax's. Roger Moore is definitely aging here, but he is a very youthful looking man so it's hardly noticeable. Many beautiful women adorn the production such as Allison Doody as Jenny Flex, May Day's henchwoman, Tanya Roberts as Stacy Sutton, California geologist, and Papillon Soo Soo as Pan Ho, another of May Day's henchwomen. The sets are wonderful, the Chateau Chantilly has to be one of the best locations for the Bond movie! San Francisco and the fight atop the Golden Gate Bridge was glorious! One of the most exciting fight scenes ever in a Bond movie! The Paris Chase is also wonderful (despite the car being cut in half and still being able to function) it's fun as is the pretitle sequence and I am one of the people that don't mind "California Girls". All in all, this movie is in my Top 5 and why people hate it baffles me!
A must-see Bond adventure!!!!!
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Notice that Bond instructs Stacey to lock the doors and windows
in her house (because they might return). He then repairs her phone line which is outside her bedromm window (she is asleep in her bed). Bond opens her bedroom window to get back into the house, closes the window behind him BUT DOES NOT LOCK THE WINDOW HIMSELF ! He then crosses through the room and goes downstairs
leaving her alone, asleep and with an unlocked bedroom window.
A senior moment for an aging Bond ?
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Watching this barely watchable Bond flick again last week I am amused by two scenes.
The first is where James Bond and Tanya Roberts escape from the authorities in a stolen fire engine. Then, what is supposed to be the following day, Bond is still driving around in the fire engine.
Even more ludicruos is the final scene with the blimp on the Golden Gate Bridge. Here you have a huge zeppelin entangled in the tower of the bridge while traffic below continues on like nothing is happening above.
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