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007__#15__The last movie with Moore. No swan song for the nearly 60-year-old Roger; on the contrary, it was quite good. Except for some ten or fifteen minutes, it has no weak point. There's a terrific ski intro, a chase of a killer with an impressive jump off the Eiffel Tower, a decent car chase with a fire truck with a loose ladder (it reminded me of Terminator 3), and the final scene with the airship. Walken's Zorin is a psychopath par excellence and no Bond villain should be ashamed of his idea to flood Sillicon Valley. Finally, out of nostalgia, I think maybe I was too hard on Moore. His sense of humour and panache will be sorely missed in the Bond films. PS: Duran Duran's song is for me the worst Bond song of the whole series. (02.10.2005)

Roger Moore sure carved a nice tombstone for his Bond. Although time was running out and the charming Englishman was certainly not young, his last Bond film was very fresh and dynamic within its limits. Of course, much is done by the pure race of Zorin, brilliantly cut out by the demonic Walken, and there is also a decent script (by Moore film standards), which has a unified spirit and nicely combines sarcasm, tension and a decent outlook (this time, however, free of self-parody). The deadly MayDay gazelle and the title pop song by hit-makers DURAN DURAN also have magic... The negatives are symptomatic – John Glen's prefabricated directing and the traditional dead spots in the middle passage of the films. It's interesting to note how unbalanced most Moore films are – the brisk introduction and ending are usually brought down by a boring middle. But in A View to a Kill, the filler is bearable, the atmosphere is not lost in the film, and it is part of the gold bond collection. What did Roger Moore leave in agent 007's cult? A great sense of humor, self-downplaying, and more of a mischievous than deadly charm... Enough for seven of his contributions to agent 007's canon with a license to kill to enter the history of action and adventure film. Despite many weak moments. (21.11.2004)

An overwrought, supermodern Bond, full of crazy aesthetics (colorful sets, crazy hairstyles, outrageous music) and an almost sixty-year-old Roger Moore, who has to annoyingly rely on editing or even rear projection in every other scene, something that had practically disappeared in the 80s. I wouldn't expect that in a high-budget film with the reputation that the story of agent 007 was currently quite skillfully creating. John Glen tried to rely on frantic action and expensive pyrotechnic stunts in the last Roger Moore's story, but succeeds only half-way, so technically View to a Kill is the most pumped-up Bond film until then, Christopher Walken is brilliant, but the charm of "classic" is missing together with the gadgets and the typical trademarks. It rather looks like a pure action thriller, but it falls short in terms of capacity, and doubly so for the breathless leading man. (20.05.2014)

One of Moore's best Bond films. It can't be said that Moore is "in shape" - 007 is played by about a dozen stuntmen - but that doesn't matter. The film moves along decently, has sensational action scenes (the best of which are the burning city hall and the escape in the fire truck quoted by Arnie and co. in Terminator 3), it doesn't lack suspense or humor and has an excellent villain. The sight of Walken shooting miners with a machine gun, his crazed expression, is strong stuff. The airship and bridge finale is one of my favorites. Note: Q does appear, but we don't get to see his department and he doesn't give Bond a single "toy". I'm writing this here for those of you who are puzzled and stumped by the absence of technical gadgets in Casino Royale, for example. It works just fine without them. (27.02.2010)

The writing was very decent, Christopher Walken as the main villain was extremely charismatic, Duran Duran's theme song was excellent, so the only problem was Roger Moore, who was just not convincing enough as Bond. (04.08.2016)

"It really fascinated me when I saw Patrick Macnee, alias John Steed from my beloved TV series "The Avengers", in the last Bond film. By the way, that's where I first saw Diana Rigg, who was a Bond girl in the only Bond film with Lazenby. The circle is complete. Not to mention that these are not the only two actors from "The Avengers" who appeared in Bond films. I find it quite amusing that Macnee is only five years older than Moore. Besides what I've written, I was pleased to see Christopher Walken and also the small role for Dolph Lundgren. How could I not like such a film?" (10.03.2014)