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A View To A Kill (1985) - Roger Moore

Roger Moore was back for a final fling as James Bond. A generation had been weaned onto Moore's more laid-back approach to Bond, and had earned more than a billion dollars for the film makers in the process. Production was not a smooth affair though. The 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios, built for The Spy Who Loved Me, burned down in 1984, just before filming there was to take place. The result, and a confidence booster to the British film industry, was that a chunk of the $30m at the bottom of the page went on building a new sound stage, the Albert R. Broccoli Stage.

Once the film was made, the little matter of signing the next Bond was to take place. Two main candidates were to emerge: Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton. Time would give each man a turn at Bond, with two quite different approaches...

The Plot

After discovering a possible link between private defence contractor Zorin Industries (who are making microchips impervious to nuclear damage for the British Government) and the KGB, James Bond, acting as James St. John Smythe, a buyer of thoroughbred racehorces (which Zorin breeds), infiltrates his French estate to find out more. Once his identity is revealed Bond makes an alliance with Stacey Sutton, whom Zorin insists must sell her shares (handed down from her late father) in his oil company. Bond and Stacey discover that Zorin is to destroy Silicon Valley in order to takeover the microchip market. With the help of Zorin's former assassin May Day, Bond manages to defuse the bomb which would serve Zorin's purposes and then chases him to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, where they brawl, with Zorin being the loser...

Budget: $30m - Gross: $152m - Fastrac007 Rating: 53%