Wow. This Bond flick is worse than I remember. Not quite the worst, but an awful mess.
Ironically, it's also the first Bond film I recall seeing in a theater.
Dave Hill’s ★★ review of A View to a Kill (1985) on Letterboxd.com
The last of the Roger Moore Bond films — mercifully. There’s little to recommend this lackluster, muddled affair: Christopher Walken as bubbly psychopath main villain, Grace Jones as Walken’s main ne…
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I was curious as to how this was going to go on the re-viewing since you had said several times how good you thought it was.
Your review is pretty much spot on and how I remember it.
Dalton movies next, a bit of a bump up on the Bond movie plateau if I remember correctly.
I don’t recall saying, @BD, I thought it was so good, though I think I identified some of the big ticket strengths that it had (Walken, Jones [who apparently did not get along at all with Moore], Macnee, and a sufficiently megalomaniacal villainous plot). It was, to be sure, worse than I remembered.
Yes, Dalton appears next time in what is one of my nostalgic favorite Bond flicks, The Living Daylights — both because Dalton brings back the brutal MI.6 crown assassin, Barry brings back some decent music, and there’s a nice mix of action and Bondian weirdness. Of course, it also suffers from probably one of the biggest geopolitical cringeworthy plotlines, in retrospect, and the head villain is kind of a dork. But it’s definitely a significant bump up over most if not all of the Moore years.
We’ll see what I think after I make the girl watch it.