Director: John Glen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rating: D
Bond (Moore) is at it again, this time investigating something to do with microchips and atomic bombs and what not and it all really made absolutely no sense to me. What I did follow, though, was the girl, Stacey Sutton (Roberts), who is the daughter of an oil tycoon whose company has been taken over by the villain, Max Zorin (Walken). Definitely not my favourite Bond girl, but I did really like Walken as the villain. I've found that it really doesn't matter what it's in, when Walken acts it's great. He doesn't necessarily save the movie, but he does make it a bit easier to take.
What helps Walken is the overall stunts. View's biggest problem is the plot is absurd and Moore is, at this point, becoming a bit old to play the character of Bond, and the overall gender of one of the villains (May Day, played by Grace Jones) makes it so that Bond can't comfortably kill her. Where the film attempts to redeem itself is in the stunts, which are fun and pretty much what you expect from an 1980s era action film, and Walken is definitely a great villain worthy of a classic Bond film. In the last few movies I've been a bit bored by the villains and annoyed by the fact that they all either seem to be a part of a government organization or just weird individuals who have too much money. While Walken's Zorin isn't part of some greater organization like SPECTRE and has ties to the KGB we still at least get some idea of who he is and why he is that way. Honestly, I didn't think I'd ever say it, but I kind of miss SPECTRE.
A couple notes. With this film, we're saying good by to a few people. The most obvious is, of course, Roger Moore, who retires as Bond after this film. So far, I'd say he is my second favourite Bond, well above George Lazenby, but far below Sean Connery. The second goodbye is to Lois Maxwell who played Miss Moneypenny in the first fourteen Bond films. One of the best parts about these movies is the dynamic between Moneypenny and Bond - the woman who's always present, often flirting, and yet never in Bond's bed. A far more subtle leaving is Maud Adams, the only Bond girl to appear in three Bond films. Adams was first seen in The Man in the Golden Gun then again in Octopussy, where she played Bond's love interest of the film, first Andrea Anders then Pussy Galore. In View she only plays the role of an extra, but it's still significant if only because she's the only Bond girl to appear in three films.
Bond (Moore) is at it again, this time investigating something to do with microchips and atomic bombs and what not and it all really made absolutely no sense to me. What I did follow, though, was the girl, Stacey Sutton (Roberts), who is the daughter of an oil tycoon whose company has been taken over by the villain, Max Zorin (Walken). Definitely not my favourite Bond girl, but I did really like Walken as the villain. I've found that it really doesn't matter what it's in, when Walken acts it's great. He doesn't necessarily save the movie, but he does make it a bit easier to take.
What helps Walken is the overall stunts. View's biggest problem is the plot is absurd and Moore is, at this point, becoming a bit old to play the character of Bond, and the overall gender of one of the villains (May Day, played by Grace Jones) makes it so that Bond can't comfortably kill her. Where the film attempts to redeem itself is in the stunts, which are fun and pretty much what you expect from an 1980s era action film, and Walken is definitely a great villain worthy of a classic Bond film. In the last few movies I've been a bit bored by the villains and annoyed by the fact that they all either seem to be a part of a government organization or just weird individuals who have too much money. While Walken's Zorin isn't part of some greater organization like SPECTRE and has ties to the KGB we still at least get some idea of who he is and why he is that way. Honestly, I didn't think I'd ever say it, but I kind of miss SPECTRE.
A couple notes. With this film, we're saying good by to a few people. The most obvious is, of course, Roger Moore, who retires as Bond after this film. So far, I'd say he is my second favourite Bond, well above George Lazenby, but far below Sean Connery. The second goodbye is to Lois Maxwell who played Miss Moneypenny in the first fourteen Bond films. One of the best parts about these movies is the dynamic between Moneypenny and Bond - the woman who's always present, often flirting, and yet never in Bond's bed. A far more subtle leaving is Maud Adams, the only Bond girl to appear in three Bond films. Adams was first seen in The Man in the Golden Gun then again in Octopussy, where she played Bond's love interest of the film, first Andrea Anders then Pussy Galore. In View she only plays the role of an extra, but it's still significant if only because she's the only Bond girl to appear in three films.
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