The film's general interest in microchips is set, and its eyes become locked on one primary antagonist - Christopher Walken's Max Zorin It's a wonderful showcase of both physical performance and stunt drivers absolutely killing it in their fields. Bond's car gets smashed to bits, but he manages to stay on her tail for the majority of his hunt. Early on, there's a chase scene in Paris with Bond and May Day that goes over great. Sheesh.įrom there, the movie does actually ground itself in some real Bond-isms for a bit. Follow this up with Duran Duran's aimless, shrugged-off titular theme "A View to a Kill", and you'll realize what a stinker you're locked in for. ![]() Bond (let me reiterate, played by a 57-year-old Moore) manages to get away in a submarine, where he and a woman much, much younger than him become involved in some steamy activities. I like some ham, don't get me wrong, but this scene just about made my head explode. Just when you're locked in enough and think that View is going to play things a bit straighter than the franchise's unintentionally laughable moments, Bond starts snowboarding down the mountain and a cover of "California Girls" by the Beach Boys fires up. RELATED: The Most Underrated James Bond Movie Was Made During the Writers Strike 'A View to a Kill' Is One of the Worst Bond Movies All the action and beautiful locals that you come to expect out of a Bond movie are here. Rounding out the heavy hitters are Zorin's henchwoman, May Day ( Grace Jones), the latest Bond girl in Stacy Sutton ( Tanya Roberts), and a new ally with Godfrey Tibbett ( Patrick Macnee). View follows James Bond hot on the trails of Max Zorin, a mega-rich industrialist working in the "fascinating" world of microchips who plans on eliminating the competition in his field by destroying Silicon Valley. It would be the 14th official entry in the franchise, not counting '67's Casino Royale and '83's Never Say Never Again, both of which were non-EON productions. Roger Moorehas filled Bond's shoes for 12 years now, and the newly released A View to a Kill would be his last swing as the iconic secret agent. This is the first Bond film to have a disclaimer ( The Living Daylights had a disclaimer about the use of the Red Cross).The year is 1985. When a company with a name similar to Zorin (the Zoran Corporation) was discovered in the United States, a disclaimer was added to the start of the film affirming that Zorin was not related to any real-life company. At the end of Octopussy, the "James Bond Will Return" sequence listed the next film as "From a View to a Kill", the name of the original short story, but later the title was changed. Originally Maibaum's script included Zorin manipulating Halley's Comet into crashing into Silicon Valley, but Wilson insisted on a more realistic plot. Broccoli initially wanted to rehire George MacDonald Fraser from Octopussy to co-write the screenplay but he was unavailable. Wilson also co-authored the screenplay along with Richard Maibaum. A View to a Kill was produced by Albert R. ![]() Along with the other stories in Ian Fleming's 1960 anthology For Your Eyes Only, the original short story "From a View to a Kill" was originally envisioned as an episode of an abandoned 1958 CBS James Bond television series.
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