A View to a Kill
Zorin: “Intuitive improvisation is the secret of genius.” Bond: “Brilliant, I am almost speechless with admiration”. Roger Moore’s last Bond film is proof of how challenging it is for a longtime Bond actor to conclude with a strong entry. Few Bond fans would claim Connery’s best is Never Say Never Again or that Brosnan’s is Die Another Day. The tone shifts a lot, and there is both more violence and silliness than usual. The villain, Max Zorin has a psychotic personality as a result of Nazi experiments on his pregnant mother when she was in a concentration camp. The violence, nearly all of it initiated by Zorin, is effective, though I think a few scenes could have been implied rather than shown outright. The silliness could have been dropped entirely. As always there are spoilers below so please be forewarned before proceeding. A View to a Kill was the first Bond film I saw in theatres. I had seen a few others (Octopussy, The Spy Who Loved Me, Never Say Never Again