Bond: View to a Kill [VHS]

Bond: View to a Kill [VHS]
by John Glen (II)

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Actor: Christopher Walken, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts
Director: John Glen (II)
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Running Time: 126 minutes
Release Date: 2000-10-17
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: The End Of The Roger Moore Era
Summary: 2 Stars

Roger Moore's era of 'Bond' movies can be split into two nearly equal parts. The first 3 movies - 'Live And Let Die,' 'The Man With The Golden Gun,' and 'The Spy Who Loved Me' - contain two of the five best 'Bond' movies of all-time (the first and last) and a very watchable, enjoyable film in between.

Then came the second half, where the movie writers seem to have had a lobotomy from the writers of the 'Batman' TV series in the 1960s. These were his last four Bond's: Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and this one. And after viewing it again last night, all I can say is, "Goodnight sweetheart, well, it's time to go," because this may have been Moore's worst Bond.

It wasn't for lack of trying, but they spent too much time on filler. The opening of the film is actually decent if not the death-defying, attention-grabbing opening moments of other movies like 'Die Another Day' or even 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' which is quite similar to this opening. But they blow it by suddenly cranking up 'California Girls' as Bond is avoiding a killing at the hands of some Russians purportedly in Siberia (but really in Iceland and Switzerland, where the movie was filmed). This detracts from a rather decent opening scene.

Then we get to the strongest part of the 'Bond' films throughout the Moore years, the theme songs. Virtually all seven theme songs to Moore's movies were in the excellent to very good category, and two of them even charted in the top five.

But it's all downhill from there. Bond gets invited to a rigged horse race near Paris to find the evil antagonist of "A View To A Kill," a genetically engineered mistake by the name of Zorin (played most excellently by Christopher Walken). Zorin is rich, and he has plans to take over the entire Silicon Valley by replacing the implants normally served there with Folgers crystals. No, just seeing if you were paying attention. In reality, he plans to flood the Silicon Valley by inciting and earthquake and then corner the market on micro (Buffalo) chips.

Zorin also has a goon girlfriend - at least, I think she was a girl since Bond slept with her - named May Day, played by Grace Jones. Jones is - without a doubt - the absolute ugliest girl to ever play a 'Bond girl.' She looks like a steroid freak, perhaps the mother of Barry Bonds. Anyway, she and Bond wind up on the same side (as the girlfriend of the bad guy usually does), and she clears the explosive out of the mine shaft. May Day is blown to bits although you weren't really sure that was the case until Bond couldn't even find a piece of her when chasing the explosion.

And then we wind up on the Golden Gate Bridge, sightseeing the most beautiful city in the world. Zorin flies his self-named blimp over the bridge and Bond (along with 80s Cinemax late night star Tanya Roberts) hitch a ride and tie it to the bridge. Walken comes out and he and Bond go back and forth until Walken plummets about 600 feet from the bridge to the murky water below, where his fall is softened when he lands on Laci Peterson. His shoes don't fly off (as normally happens with Golden Gate planned suicides) but nevertheless, Walken gets a leading role in the documentary, 'The Bridge.'

Angry at being hoodwinked, Zorin's still living flunky shows why he was never able to get another job by lighting a big stick of dynamite that Bond proceeds to flip the blimp and toss him back inside. We get a modern-day version of 'The Hindenburg' although San Francisco reporter Danny Tanner is not around to scream, "OH, THE HUMANITY." The movie ends and Bond somehow gets off the Golden Gate Bridge without dying (I assume he simply waited for the cable car to pick him up). He then takes a shower with Tanya Roberts and gets a penicillin shot shortly thereafter.

This movie really indicated that the Roger Moore era was over. Even while this was being released, we knew that a new Bond - rumored at the time to be Pierce Brosnan - was in the offing. Brosnan, however, could not get out of his contract with 'Remington Steele,' so we got Timothy Dalton.

A not-so-great end of the road for Sir Roger Moore. But worth one viewing. I'd call it a low third-tier Bond.

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Summary of Bond: View to a Kill [VHS]

Roger Moore's last outing as James Bond is evidence enough that it was time to pass the torch to another actor. Beset by crummy action (an out-of-control fire engine?) and featuring a fading Moore still trying to prop up his mannered idea of style, the film is largely interesting for Christopher Walken's quirky performance as a sort-of supervillain who wants to take out California's Silicon Valley. Grace Jones has a spookily interesting presence as a lethal associate of Walken's (and who, in the best Bond tradition, has sex with 007 before trying to kill him later), and Patrick Macnee (Steed!) has a warm if brief bit. Even directed by John Glen, who brought some crackle to the Moore years in the Bond franchise, this is a very slight effort. --Tom Keogh

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