![]() ![]() At this troubling juncture, Jones' character name, Mayday, seems symptomatic of the franchise in general. Indeed, the final San Francisco Bay Bridge action set piece offers the most excitement of the entire flick. When a slow-moving blimp is the literal 'vehicle' that sets your supposedly explosive climax in motion, you know it's time to hang up your Walther PPK. In this PG-rated spy adventure, an investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 (Moore) to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. Low energy as he goes through the all-too-familiar paces of redundancy, his now-lackluster 007 fails to throw off sparks even with a villainous two-fer played by Christopher Walken and Grace Jones. In his 7th outing as Bond, Moore's superspy has become Perry Como with a License to Kill. Thanks to A View to a Kill, Sean Connery didn't suffer the indignity of being the only Bond to go out on a low note. ![]() Trading adventure in for bad jokes, this rote outing marks an embarrassing entry for the series. Well past his sell-by date, Roger Moore shamelessly headlines an overly camp adventure where the only action comes courtesy of a killer theme song. If this film represents anything, it's that we're not nearly as bad as a society toward women as we once were. Or to suggest sexual activity on one's names. Like a woman would to be subservient to a man. Bond says, "Of course you are." Get it?! Her name is Jenny Flex, like the word "genuflect," which means to bow down in front of someone. There is a gal named Jenny Flex in the film. It's not that post-industrial society stopped being misogynistic or sexist, it's just that it could never be as blatant as all this is. Another problem is the misogyny and sexism itself. It's not that he is such a bad guy but it's just so terribly obvious that he is not the kind of man that women would be throwing themselves at like this film portrays. Roger Moore is just too old to be playing Bond at this point. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Some entertainment just doesn't stand the test of time, including the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill." Problems galore with this film. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Wilson (Screenplay), John Glen, Albert R. Carl Mortner), Manning Redwood (Bob Conley), Alison Doody (Jenny Flex), Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny), Fiona Fullerton (Pola Ivanova), David Yip (Chuck Lee), Patrick Bauchau (Scarpine), Patrick Macnee (Tibbett), Grace Jones (May Day), Tanya Roberts (Stacey Sutton), Christopher Walken (Max Zorin), Richard Maibaum (Screenplay), Michael G. Gogol), Robert Brown (M), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Willoughby Gray (Dr. A View To A Kill : Roger Moore (James Bond), Ron Tarr (Guard), Bill Ackridge (O'Rourke), Tony Sibbald (Mine Foreman), Dolph Lundgren (Venz), Gerard Buehr (Auctioneer), Joe Flood (US Police Captain), Lucien Jerome (Paris Taxi Driver), Anthony Chin (Taiwanese Tycoon), Carole Ashby (Whistling Girl), Dominique Risbourg (Butterfly Act Compere), Mary Stavin (Kimberley Jones), Papillon Soo Soo (Pan Ho), Bogdan Kominowski (Klotkoff), Daniel Benzali (Howe), Jean Rougerie (Aubergine), Geoffrey Keen (Minister of Defense), Seva Novgorodtsev (Helicopter Pilot), Peter Ensor (Tycoon), Taylor Mcauley (Guard), Walter Gotell (Gen. ![]()
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