Starring: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Geoffrey Keen, Walter Gotell, Bernard Lee
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rating: B
Where to start... Okay, well, credit where credit is due. Once I stopped taking the series seriously I did in fact start enjoying them more. I somehow doubt that I'll ever be a big Bond fan, but I'm not hating the movies so that's something. I'm also really starting to enjoy Moore's Bond, possibly even more than Connery's (as I type this I can practically hear my brother shaking his head with disappointment).
Bond (Moore) is at it again, this time pairing up with his Soviet, female counterpart. When British and Soviet subs start mysteriously disappearing Bond is summoned by MI6 and Major Anya Amasova (Bach) is summoned by the KGB in order to investigate. The two team up and eventually discover that scientist and anarchist Karl Stromberg (Jürgens) is behind it all. It's up to the two of them to stop Stromberg and have hot sexy times, although not necessarily at the same time.
So, as it has become impossible for me to broach a Bond movie without mentioning the sexy times, let's start with a discussion of the Major, also known as Triple X. This was probably the first Bond film where I felt that the relationship with the woman was neither demeaning to her nor out of context with the series. So far, Barbara Bach just might be my favourite Bond girl. She was a strong, independent woman who just happened to screw around with Bond during their mission. He didn't demean her by doing things like hide her in a closet while he sleeps with another woman, and she also serves as more than just a damsel in distress for Bond to save. In this movie I really felt like Bond found someone equal to him.
What else... the action was fun, although I would appreciate it if Bond movies stopped having underwater lairs. These movies tend to be a bit repetitive, or at least the villains are. Either they're really ridiculous and have me going "are you fucking serious" or it's the same thing over and over. Plus the whole concept of an underwater lair makes for lame action sequences. It's a pain to determine who's fighting who and the like when everyone's underwater wearing scuba gear. Just saying. While we were saved from this in Spy it wasn't from lack of trying.
Bond (Moore) is at it again, this time pairing up with his Soviet, female counterpart. When British and Soviet subs start mysteriously disappearing Bond is summoned by MI6 and Major Anya Amasova (Bach) is summoned by the KGB in order to investigate. The two team up and eventually discover that scientist and anarchist Karl Stromberg (Jürgens) is behind it all. It's up to the two of them to stop Stromberg and have hot sexy times, although not necessarily at the same time.
So, as it has become impossible for me to broach a Bond movie without mentioning the sexy times, let's start with a discussion of the Major, also known as Triple X. This was probably the first Bond film where I felt that the relationship with the woman was neither demeaning to her nor out of context with the series. So far, Barbara Bach just might be my favourite Bond girl. She was a strong, independent woman who just happened to screw around with Bond during their mission. He didn't demean her by doing things like hide her in a closet while he sleeps with another woman, and she also serves as more than just a damsel in distress for Bond to save. In this movie I really felt like Bond found someone equal to him.
What else... the action was fun, although I would appreciate it if Bond movies stopped having underwater lairs. These movies tend to be a bit repetitive, or at least the villains are. Either they're really ridiculous and have me going "are you fucking serious" or it's the same thing over and over. Plus the whole concept of an underwater lair makes for lame action sequences. It's a pain to determine who's fighting who and the like when everyone's underwater wearing scuba gear. Just saying. While we were saved from this in Spy it wasn't from lack of trying.
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