The last James Bond movie with Roger Moore as Bond 007, A View to a Kill by John Glen has the necessary Bond ingredients to entertain the action-adventure fans – world-changing technologies, endless chases, secret weapons, charming women, and the unstoppable Bond running circles around them all.
Per the screen rule for 007, it starts with Bond (Moore) right in the middle of action in dangerous waters – which here would be snowy Siberian grounds. From the under the nose of Soviet security, Bond retrieves a uniquely designed microchip from a dead agent and is led to industrialist Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), his antagonist through the rest of the story. To save California from Zorin’s reckless plan of a double-whammy, Bond has to go through a lot and have his none lives handy.
Bond movies unfailingly offer stunts on planes, trains, automobiles, and ships. A View to a Kill has all these cliffhangers covered, and then some. In Zorin and his bodyguard May Day (Grace Jones), viewers get two unforgettable villains, though a direct fight between May Day and Bond would remain an unfulfilled wish. For Bond’s character, Moore was obviously older than the desirable age; yet his spy charm hadn’t faded away. And whatever was lost was more than made up for with the bewitching beauty of Tanya Roberts as the new Bond girl.
Between the captivating cinematography, stunts, and turning points in the plot, A View to a Kill becomes the standard 007 movie that you can’t leave till the end. The movie didn’t become a hit for nothing.