With Skyfall dropping in theaters in just a couple months, along with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond series, a close friend and fellow film nerd, Brandon Peters, has generously offered to do a comprehensive review of the entire 007 film franchise. Today is the fourteenth entry, with a full review of my wife's favorite 007 picture, A View To A Kill (no, that's sadly not a joke). I hope you enjoy what is a pretty massive feature leading up the November 9th release of Skyfall. I'll do my best to leave my two-cents out of it, give or take a few items I have up my sleeve (including a possible guest review from my wife as she sings the praises of her favorite 007 film, you won't believe what it is). But just because I'm stepping aside doesn't mean you should. Without further ado...
A View To A Kill
1985
Directed by: John Glen
Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts,
Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee
Rated PG
“What a view…”
“…to a kill!”
~May
Day, with Max Zorn finishing the sentence
STATS
Kills: 7
Girls: Stacey Sutton,
May Day, Pola Ivanova, woman in glacier sub
Car: 1984 Chevrolet
Corvette
Locales: Siberia, France
(Paris & Chantilly), San Francisco
Odd Villain Trait:
May Day is a brute…woman
Song: “A View to A
Kill” performed by Duran Duran
A View To A Kill
is the concluding chapter in the twelve- year era of Roger Moore as James Bond
007 and a Mendelson family classic. Also
bowing out in this adventure is Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny, ending a 23
year/14 film run in the role. The film
proves to be a step up from Octopussy,
but doesn’t quite bring about a completely satisfying result. The film does deserve some credit for really
wanting to go all in and find some originality, but can’t quite execute to
bring the potential to fruition.
