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.
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01/01/00
A View to a Kill (1985)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:16
Rotten:25
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Roger Moore makes his the final appearance as the Secret Service Agent, James Bond in A VIEW TO A KILL. Her Majesty's Secret Service sends Bond to stop Madcap computer industrialist Max Zorin... [More]
Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Grace Jones, Tanya Roberts
Director: John Glen
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Reviews for A View to a Kill
Top CriticRegisters as another high-flying James Bond adventure story.
08/22/04
Moore definitely goes out on a high note with this effort.
01/01/00
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.
03/22/05
As certain films in the Bond series have set specific benchmarks for tone, A View to a Kill is James Bond in comic book perfection.
11/11/02
This one, directed by John Glen, just follows the numbers, plodding from one unimaginative set piece to the next.
10/13/08
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.
08/30/04
Top CriticRoger Moore's last Bond and not before time.
10/13/08
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.
02/17/07
No Bond outing is awful, but this one comes close.
01/01/00
The net result is a story that has us yearning for those much older Bond films that never lost your attention.
01/01/00
This Bond eats quiche.
02/21/09
While 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.
09/12/08
Top CriticBond is old but still cool
02/10/08
It is exhausted and exhausting, an old joke retold once too often.
10/13/08
Top CriticA 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.
10/13/08
Top CriticA workmanlike entry brings Moore's long and increasingly tired tenure to a close.
10/13/08
Top CriticOnce 007 was licensed to kill; now he not only eats quiche, he cooks it himself.
01/26/06
Top CriticNo review available.
09/08/03
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.
03/25/06
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