A View to a Kill (1985)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

John Glen

Writers:

Ian Fleming (story)
Richard Maibaum (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

24 May 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

Tagline:

Adventure Above And Beyond All Other Bonds

Plot:

An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.

Plot Keywords:

Silicon Valley | Microchip | James Bond | Earthquake | Computer

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Roger Moore	...	James Bond
Christopher Walken	...	Max Zorin
Tanya Roberts	...	Stacey Sutton
Grace Jones	...	May Day
Patrick Macnee	...	Sir Godfrey Tibbett
Patrick Bauchau	...	Scarpine
David Yip	...	Chuck Lee
Fiona Fullerton	...	Pola Ivanova
Manning Redwood	...	Bob Conley
Alison Doody	...	Jenny Flex
Willoughby Gray	...	Dr. Carl Mortner / Hans Glaub
Desmond Llewelyn	...	Q
Robert Brown	...	M
Lois Maxwell	...	Miss Moneypenny
Walter Gotell	...	General Anatol Gogol

Also Known As:

From a View to a Kill (UK) (working title)

Runtime:

131 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Germany:12 (re-release) (uncut) | West Germany:12 (cut) (video premiere) | Iceland:10 (original rating) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | UK:PG (cut) | South Korea:15 | Brazil:12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1985) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

2201 Broadway, Oakland, California, USA

Company:

Danjaq

Trivia:

The Eiffel Tower features prominently in the movie. In the earlier James Bond film Moonraker (1979), it is mentioned that the villain Hugo Drax actually bought the structure but his application to transport the tower was refused.

Goofs:

Continuity: The locomotive seen outside in the quarry has a higher exhaust pipe above the muffler, in the mine interior sequence filmed at Pinewood the pipe has been cut down to clear the tunnel roof.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Kimberley Jones: I thought you'd never get back.
James Bond: Well, there was a heck of a crowd on the piste!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Inside 'Licence to Kill' (1999) (V)

Soundtrack:

California Girls

The view is great

Because my horrible DVD player kept freezing, causing me to have to watch this bit by bit, I kind of put off my review of this movie for a while. Now that I'm writing it, let me just say I greatly enjoyed this film. The settings are great, the action is awesome, the theme song (despite the horrible pre-movie credits) is one of the best, Christopher Walken plays one of the greatest villains ever, and Roger Moore is just fine. After being wowed by License to Kill recently, I thought Timothy Dalton would have been great in this show. But I was pleased by Moore's performance, and I think it's great that he showed such wonderful support for Cubby Broccoli. However, I do have to agree with everyone else about Tanya Roberts as Stacey Sutton. I believe she could have received a larger role since she was the Bond girl, but she was too American and was pretty helpless and annoying. I still recommend this film, for it's a lot better than people say it is. 3 and a half stars out of 5.