Like the last Bond exercise, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker hits its stride by being silly and spectacular.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2023

I wanted to love this film and to see something actually new and interesting, but instead, I got a boring and confusing plot that had me simply waiting for the runtime to get over.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Aug 28, 2022

Moonraker is still basically good fun and I suppose that's all it's supposed to be.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2022

Moonraker has the same trappings as the earlier movies, but little of the spirit.

Full Review | May 20, 2022

Yes, the final half-hour is utterly ridiculous, but the earthbound portion has much to recommend it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2021

Vintage Bond has violence, innuendo, sexism, and peril.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2020

Frequently entertaining and grandiloquent in equal measure, Moonraker's overblown excess is a total joy.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2020

For the majority of the time, Bond and Goodhead seem quite pleased with their skills - and face very little serious adversity, even when regularly cornered by Jaws.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 30, 2020

Bond in space - that is all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2020

Unquestionably the nadir to the whole Bond series.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 31, 2019

Upon reflection, I think I like it, purely as a film judged on its own merits, rather than judging it with the expectation of what film series its in...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2019

... the original scheme has been scrupulously respected... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Feb 8, 2018

The predictability of Moonraker is part of the pleasure. Like most Bond adventures, Moonraker is so overstated that it is camp, and so preposterous that it's fun.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2017

It's easy to see why 007 purists would loathe it, yet somehow 'Moonraker's' special brand of absurdity makes for one strangely entertaining Bond adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 28, 2015

Moonraker, the newest James Bond spectacle, is a cheerful, splashy entertainment. The curators of the Bond museum do not surpass themselves with this exhibition, the 11th in the series, but they haven't fallen down on the job either.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2015

All that remains of the mood of the early films is the theme tune. And though Albert R. Broccoli, the producer, says that Bond goes on forever and never ages. the fact is that he is getting more juvenile with every film that's made.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2015

Too much of the budget is wasted on overblown spectacle, without enough attention being given to the basics.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 6, 2015

Thank God for MOONRAKER!

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2012

James Bond would have to go back to Earth in "For Your Eyes Only" because "Moonraker" is truly a stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 13, 2012

The "Bond In Space" angle is all we need to write Moonraker off as daft, but... the whole script is a messy disaster.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 15, 2012