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Summary: James Bland
Review: What keeps this film from the pantheon of great Bond flicks? It's got a great villain in Stromberg played by Curt Jurgens. Richard Kiel's Jaws is a great evil sidekick in the classic Oddjob sense. Barbara Bach is one of the more luscious Bond babes. Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewellyn, and Lois Maxwell are still around to assay "M", "Q" and Moneypenny. The stunts are breathtaking and the gadgets are pretty cool. So what is this film lacking? SEAN CONNERY!!!! Repeat after me: Roger Moore is not James Bond! The seven films in which he occupied the clothes of 007 are an aberration. It took Pierce Brosnan to rescue Bond from the blandness of the previous sucessors to Sean Connery. If you are a novice to this series do not start with this one. Go to the classics ("Goldfinger", "From Russia With Love", etc.) as a reference point.
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Summary: The Best Bond Movie
Review: This is the best Bond movie
It has all the elements you expect in a Bond picture.
Action, great special effects, a lovely Bond girl, great music, and a perfect Bond.
Roger Moore knows after two movies, exactly how he has to play bond. A though, humerous and serious Bond.
Barbara Bach is just lovely in this movie. She is beautiful and plays the russian agent Anya perfectly. The most beautiful Bond girl.
The villain, played by Curt Jurgens, is evil and a perfect adversarry.
Richard Kiel is the most rememberale Villain side-kick.
He is a perfect match for Bond, and has a nice weapon...
Talking about dropping in for a bite...
-The Best Bond movie! See it for yourself! It will enjoy you until the last minute!
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Summary: Nobody does it better...
Review: James Bond is assigned to foil the plans of the evil Stromberg (Curt Jürgens) to destroy the world, so that he can create an underwater utopia. As Stromberg and his criminal syndicate have targeted both the Soviets and the Americans/British, he is lucky to be teamed up with the lovely Russian agent Triple X-Anya Amosova, played by the gorgeous Barbara Bach.
Bach plays my second favourite Bond girl-and the Bond girls are ALL so exquisite that they are hard to choose between.
Bond engages with several other beauties from the Swiss Alps to the deserts of Egypt ( a scantily clad belly dancing bevy of lovelies , are one of the magnificent delights Bond comes across when visiting his Egyptian host).to the Sardinia, where Stromberg's underwater compound is based.
In this one the frightening Jaws is also introduced as Stromberg's bloodthirsty assassin, , with his metallic razor sharp fangs, which cut through metal bars and chains, the necks of several of his victims, and even a man-eating shark. Jaws also crawls out of various seeming deaths-the perfect foil to Bond, as he has appeared as Bond's nemesis in several subsequent 007 flix.
This is certainly the best of all the Roger Moore Bond's, and while Moore's over-flippant style can be irritating, the surrounding, the action and the ladies let him get away with it , in this one at least.
The theme song by Carly Simon -Nobody Does it Better- is the best Bond theme song.
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Summary: Moore's Best
Review: This is truly the best Bond film starring Roger Moore. Not only was he in his prime, but the audience is thrilled by the villains, gadgets, and action scenes that dominate the film.
MI-6 and the KGB are baffled by the disappearance of several submarines for no apparent reason. In the spirit of cooperation, Bond is teamed up with the KGB's sexy Agent XXX (the beautiful Catherine Bach) to solve the mystery. As they peruse the ruins of ancient Egypt, they find someone who may have information. They're soon threatened by the attacks of Jaws (Richard Kiel in his first appearance in that role) whose employer is still unknown. As their investigation continues, they're led to a man named Stromberg (Curt Jürgens) who wants to create a new world under the sea. Leaving from Stromberg's spectacular submersible city, Bond and Triple X are literally submerged in action with Bond's submarine/Lotus and a series of other action-packed adventures.
This is the best Bond film with the right dosage of humor, action, and suspense. Richard Kiel stands out as one of the franchise's most memorable and tenacious assassins. A great film for all to watch.
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Summary: Nobody Does It Better
Review: After the weak The Man With The Golden Gun, and the loss of Harry Saltzmann as Albert "Cubby" Broccli's production partner,TSWLM ushered in a new era in Bond whereas Roger Moore finally made the character his own, and the campiness of the last three movies(Diamonds Are Forever,Live And Let Die,TMWTGG) was played down (for now).
Bond teams up with a Russian agent(Barbara Bach) to track down missing nuclear subs from both US and USSR.The trail leads to Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) who wants to use the missles to set off WWIII and have his own city underwater.
Silly plot aside, the movie is enjoyable one.Featuring Gadgets galore (The fully equipt Lotus Espirit), and a classic henchman in Jaws (Richard Kiel).
TSWLM ranks as one of the best Bond adventure.Although not in the same league as Goldfinger, it certainly holds it own well.
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Summary: Roger Moore's Best Bond
Review: Roger Moore had a decent start as James Bond in "Live and Let Die," then faltered in "The Man with the Golden Gun." In "The Spy Who Loved Me" Bond roars back with one of his best and one of the best in the Bond series.Karl Stromberg (Kurt Jürgens) is attempting to cause the superpowers to destroy each other so that he can become the controlling force in a world that will live on the ocean's floor. James Bond and Major Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) play cat and mouse with Stromberg's henchmen as they try to find out who is stealing Soviet and American nuclear submarines, how they are being stolen, and why they are being stolen. In the course of their search they meet up with Richard Kiel as Jaws in his first Bond appearance, and the beautiful Caroline Munro as Naomi. Munro has played in a variety of B-movies such as "Dr. Phibes Rises Again!" and "At the Earth's Core." Moore's previous two Bond films minimized gadgetry in an attempt to focus on Bond the spy, but in this movie the gadgets are back all around. The best gadget is the coolest Bond car since the Aston-Martin DB-5, a Lotus Esprit Turbo. This car can go underwater, is generally bullet proof, has underwater mines, missiles (poor Caroline Munro) and several other interesting gadgets. At the beginning of the movie Bond escapes from assorted Soviet assassins by skiing off a cliff and then parachuting to safety. Of course he is aided in that getaway by a ski pole gun. Bond also has a type of jet ski. In one of the more interesting scenes in the movie Bond uses an electromagnet in combat against Jaws. You would also have to include Stromberg's underwater fortress as part of the gadgets in the movie, along with a ship that eats submarines. I think you get the drift. There are a lot of gadgets in this movie. The movie unfolds in a variety of exotic locations. The best are in Egypt where pyramids and excavations form a backdrop for several scenes. The locations also include a mountainous Mediterranean island along with the beautiful beaches of that island. The score keeps up the tradition of having an outstanding theme song with Carly Simon's rendition of "The Spy Who Loved Me," one of the best theme songs to any Bond movie and a hit for Simon in the 70s. This movie is quite interesting in that Stromberg in the central antagonist, and yet the majority of the action is between Bond and various Stromberg henchmen. Richard Kiel gets a lot of film time, including a rather interesting battle with Bond and Amasova in a desert excavation, and then another battle with Jaws on Stromberg's underwater fortress, ending with Jaws in a brief, ironic battle with a shark. The wimpy captain of the tanker also gets quite a bit of film time, unfortunately. The captain is one of the wimpiest Bond bad guys ever. Naomi, on the other hand, is in the tradition of the beautiful, strong and evil women that Bond has had to face often, particularly in newer Bond films. The comedy in this movie was significantly subdued after the near parody of "The Man with the Golden Gun." Thank goodness. The humor had become overwhelming and distracting. Moore's Bond is relatively serious in this film, with the fewest one-liners and double entendre's of any of the previous several Bond films. The result is a much more serious and effective spy movie. This movie succeeds with a solid plot that is a throw back to the earliest Connery films, a solid cast, excellent locations, and plausible gadgets. One of the best of the series and perhaps Moore's best.
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Summary: The spy who loved Moore
Review: This is truly one of the best Bond films off all time. The only Bond film that I like better than this is the Living Daylights. Roger Moore takes his third stab as the world's most debonair secret agent. He is sent to investigate missing Subs by her majestys secret service and is led to the extravagant headquarters of Karl Stromberg(Curt Jurgens)who immediately gets Jaws to stalk 007. Bond is teamed with the beautiful XXX(who could kick Vin Diesel's ass)to get the job done. This Bond entry is better than any of Sean Connery's lame entries. have you ever seen a man eat a shark in Sean's movies(did'nt think so). Stromberg(Jurgens) is a little old and out of shape to be a very menacing villian but is a great actor. I LOVE THIS FILM and is one of Roger Moore's two best films(the other is For Your Eyes Only for you clueless folks). Moonraker cam right after THE SPY. Moonraker is not as GREAT as this, but I still enjoy both very much because I think Roger Moore is a great actor and the only actor that is ATTRACTIVE enough to fill Bond's big shoes.
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