A View to a Kill (1985)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 28
Absurd even by Bond standards, A View to a Kill is weighted down by campy jokes and a noticeable lack of energy.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 6
Absurd even by Bond standards, A View to a Kill is weighted down by campy jokes and a noticeable lack of energy.
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Secret Agent 007 must stop a megalomaniacal technology mogul from destroying Silicon Valley in this fourteenth episode of the long-running James Bond series. Computer baron Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) is planning to trigger a major California earthquake in order to wipe out his competitors. Bond is dispatched to stop him in Europe, where he is partnered with Sir Godfrey Tibbet (Patrick MacNee). Sent in to slow down Bond and Company is Max Zorin's sadistic and murderous sidekick May Day (Grace
May 24, 1985 Wide
Oct 17, 2000
MGM/UA Entertainment Company
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Cast
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Roger Moore
James Bond -
Christopher Walken
Max Zorin -
Tanya Roberts
Stacey Sutton -
Grace Jones
May Day -
Patrick Macnee
Tibbett -
Patrick Bauchau
Scarpine -
Fiona Fullerton
Pola Ivanova -
David Yip
Chuck Lee -
Manning Redwood
Bob Conley -
Alison Doody
Jenny Flex -
Willoughby Gray
Dr. Carl Mortner -
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Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny -
Walter Gotell
Gen. Gogol -
Geoffrey Keen
Minister of Defense -
Bill Ackridge
O'Rourke -
Daniel Benzali
Howe -
Gerard Buhr
Auctioneer -
Anthony Chinn
Taiwanese Tycoon -
Joe Flood
U.S. Police Captain -
Dolph Lundgren
Venz -
Seva Novgorodtsev
Helicopter Pilot -
Jean Rougerie
Aubergine -
Tony Sibbald
Mine Foreman -
Papillon Soo Soo
Pan Ho -
Mary Stavin
Kimberley Jones -
Carole Ashby
Whistling Girl -
Gerard Buehr
Auctioneer -
Peter Ensor
Tycoon -
Lucien Jerome
Paris Taxi Driver -
Bogdan Kominowski
Klotkoff -
Taylor McAuley
Guard -
Dominique Risbourg
Butterfly Act Compere -
Ron Tarr
Guard -
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All Critics (44) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (31) | DVD (20)
This one, directed by John Glen, just follows the numbers, plodding from one unimaginative set piece to the next.
It is exhausted and exhausting, an old joke retold once too often.
Top CriticWhile Bond pics have always traded heavily on the camp value of its characters, A View to a Kill almost attacks the humor, practically winking at the audience with every move.
Once 007 was licensed to kill; now he not only eats quiche, he cooks it himself.
Top CriticAs lavishly escapist as they are, the latest James Bond films have become strenuous to watch, now that the business of maintaining Bond's casual savoir-faire looks like such a monumental chore.
A View to a Kill is often numbered among the worst of the series, but, upon closer inspection, this film is a vast improvement over Octopussy.
This time around, 007 is a paunchy old man looking like he needs to retire. The film has little energy, thrills or fun, which is essential for a Bond film. The series has now reached an all time low.
Contrary to historical opinion and some truly awful movies, Moore conjured roguish magic over his 12-year tenure. His Bond cast the spell that initially charmed me as a kid - one perhaps so intoxicating to him that it was simply hard to let go.
What says "outlandishly dumb action film from 1985" better than a plot to flood Silicon Valley and corner the world's microchip market?
This Bond eats quiche.
A View to a Kill is not the worst Bond film ever made, but it's closer to the bottom than to the top of the barrel.
A workmanlike entry brings Moore's long and increasingly tired tenure to a close.
Roger Moore's last Bond and not before time.
Bond is old but still cool
A View to a Kill is at least better than Octopussy, but it's so absurd as to make for a less than perfect time.
The aging Roger Moore rehashes his somewhat foppish Bond in this sad '80s installment with Grace Jones as a vampish villainess. Awful, and an embarrassment to the Bond mystique.
Roger Moore's final Bond film is a solidly entertaining entry in the series.
Moore's tryst with Grace Jones is, on the one hand, a well-intentioned attempt to tear down the Bond-girl color barrier, and, on the other, a rather disturbing image.
Audience Reviews for A View to a Kill
Super Reviewer
This time around a crazy computer industrialist named Max Zorin plans a devious scheme to get rid of his competitors in Silicon Valley. Okay, sounds fine I suppose. But, to do that, he wants to trigger an earthquake that will flood the entire valley. That's really over-the-top, even for a Bond villain.
I used to dig this one, but it's lost some of its charm over time. Yeah, Grace Jones is memorable as the lead hench(wo)man, if only for her statuesque presence, and there's something undeniably fun about seeing Christopher Walken in typical Walken mode as Zorin, but I dunno, this one is just kinda blah. I give it a slight boost because the action scenes are well staged, and, like I said, Walken really holds it together, but this is overall quite blah, uninspired, and really offers nothing all that fresh or interesting.
At least it's watchable, but I question if it really needed to be 131 minutes in length.
Super Reviewer
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- Tibbett: Another wealthy owner?
- James Bond: Who knows? But she certainly bear closer inspection.
- Tibbett: We're on a mission!
- James Bond: Sir Godfrey, on a mission I am expected to sacrifice myself.
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- May Day: [looks through Zepplin window at Golden Gate Bridge] Wow... What a view.
- Max Zorin: To a kill.
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- Max Zorin: You lost, 007.
- James Bond: Killing Tibbett was a mistake.
- Max Zorin: I'm about to make the same mistake twice.
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- Max Zorin: So.. Does anyone else wanna drop out?
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- Max Zorin: You slept well?
- James Bond: A little restless, but I got off eventually.
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- Max Zorin: Intuitive improvisation, is the secret of genius.
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