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The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 8

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40

Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3

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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 56,728

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Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of telling the story from the heroine's point of view; in fact, Bond doesn't make an appearance until the book is two-thirds over. This would hardly work in the film world's Bond franchise, so the original austere plotline of the novel was eschewed altogether in favor of a labyrinthine story involving outer-space extortion. The leading lady, a "hard-luck kid" in the original,

PG, 2 hr. 5 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

Christopher Wood

Oct 22, 2002

United Artists

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Critic Reviews for The Spy Who Loved Me

All Critics (38) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (8) | DVD (14)

Never did top that first stunt.

October 13, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment (1)
TIME Magazine
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The ostensible hero is just a fleshy blur.

May 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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As always, story and plastic character are in the service of comic strip parody.

May 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety Staff
Variety
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The film moves along at a serviceable clip, but it seems half an hour too long.

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Of Roger Moore's seven James Bond pictures, The Spy Who Loved Me stands out as the best.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment (1)
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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1977's 007 still gettin' lucky in underwater lair.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Charles Cassady
Common Sense Media

Overwhelmed with its cartoonish absurdity.

February 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment (1)
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It may not be Fleming but it is terrific fun.

May 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Ian Freer
Empire Magazine

As the Bond series moved deeper into the 1970s, the emphasis moved away from the inventive scripts that made the best Sean Connery films fine examples of the spy genre and toward the kind of feats of daring and visual spectacle.

May 5, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

... if you love these films, you will want to splurge on the box sets.

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review | Comment
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
DVD Review

... the first truly original Bond movie, this one is actually more tightly constructed than several of the adaptations and remains consistently surprising and witty.

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review | Comment
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
DVD Review

007 lives in the best of the Moore Bonds ...

September 22, 2006 Comment
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

This is near-camp and its success sent a strong message to its producers about what audiences wanted to see: Bigger, bolder, louder, sexier.

August 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

The film has its moments -- Kiel's indestructible heavy racks up a good score -- but the rest is desperately weak.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
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One of the better Moore outings.

June 21, 2005 Comment
James Plath
Movie Metropolis

It's Bond with Roger Moore, and this is one of the best of his.

June 12, 2005 Comment
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com
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THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is Roger Moore's second best Bond film, behind LIVE AND LET DIE. It's without a doubt funny (though most likely intentionally) and, around the second half, unrealistic, but unlike his next four films (starting clearly with MOONRAKER), it never reaches the point of silly or asinine. This time, 007

July 24, 2011
spielberg00
Alexander Diminiano

Super Reviewer

The Spy Who Loved Me is one of the best James Bond films, and is one of my personal favorites. After the somewhat lacking The Man With Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me is a fine return to form with rousing action unique villains and quite possibly the most beautiful Bond girl to grace a Bond film. This film has it all.

June 28, 2010
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

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Foreign Titles

  • Der Spion, der mich liebte (DE)
  • Spy Who Loved Me (AU)
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