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A View to a Kill (1985)

A View to a Kill poster
Directed by
John Glen
Genre
action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
2h 11m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 2,221 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

James Bond tries to stop a wealthy industrialist who plans to destroy Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake. The villain wants to monopolize the microchip market afterwards.

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What happens

A View to a Kill is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's 1960 short story "From a View to a Kill", the film has an original screenplay. In A View to a Kill, Bond is pitted against Max Zorin (played by Christopher Walken), who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who also wrote the screenplay with Richard Maibaum. It was the third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen, and the last to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. Despite receiving negative reviews from critics, who criticised the ageing Moore's performance, and Moore's own dislike of the film, it was a commercial success. The Duran Duran theme song "A View to a Kill" performed well in the charts, becoming the only Bond theme song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Song. The film was followed by The Living Daylights in 1987, with Timothy Dalton playing Bond. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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