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The Spy Who Loved Me (Special Edition)

The Spy Who Loved Me (Special Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Baby, Baby You're the Best
Review: This is the Best of the Bond Films Starring Roger Moore. Barbara Bach is so sexy in this movie. Jaws is the ultimate bad guy. This film features Carly Simon's number 1 song "Nobody does it better".

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Bond flick...surpasses most others in the series
Review: The Spy Who Loved Me is my second favorite Bond movie (behind "For Your Eyes Only")

I loved the chemistry between Triple X and James, and Barbara Bach makes a wonderful Bond Lady. I enjoyed the scene where Triple X and James pose as husband and wife (she the Russian agent and he the enemy British Agent). The story has lots of action, and the reappearance of "Jaws" the evil enemy who attempts numerous times to kill our hero.

Overall, this movie is true to the Bond chemistry, great plot and plenty of action. Rates 5 stars.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Some spy who fell in love, with another spy
Review: Synopsis(novel): Vivienne Michel is a young woman hired to watch over an empty motel, overnight. Trouble starts when two men come out of the night - Sol Horror and Slugsy Morant. It soon becomes obvious they have criminal intentions, and that she isn't meant to come out alive.
Then a third man arrives by the chance of a flat tyre. Bond - James Bond.

Synopsis(movie): Karl Stromberg, a powerful millionaire, has stolen two nuclear submarines, one British and one Russian. He plans to use them to provoke a World War, and start the human race anew in his underwater world.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great Bond movie, Bad morals
Review: This is a great bond movie in the 70's with lots of action, but i have one problem, this movie has no morals. Think about it. Bond kills the Lover of agent XXX. Then, Bond falls in love with the girl who loved the man he killed. So in otherwords, he killed a guy, then steals his girl, how horrible i must say.....but anyways, back to the movie.

I'll go over each of the Action sequences in the movies

1) Ski Chase - put it simple, 4 bad guys chase James Bond down the side of a snowy slope, Bond does a crazy stunt, ski's off the mountain and parachutes, also he does a crazy backtwist off a ledge, awesome

2) Jaws fight - James fought jaws so many times in this movie that im putting it into one category. First fight was in a egyptian ruins temple. This fight wasn't that exciting. the second was in a train, this one was good, jaws picks up bond and smashes him against a cieling, and throws him into a wall, bond might have met his match. but he wins by electrcuting him and throwing him out the window of a hi-speed train. the last is in the Shark lair, where he ends up magnetizing him and dropping him into the shark lair, exciting.

3) Motorcycle/car/helicopter chase - James Bond and Agent XXX get chased by 3 vehicles, the motorcyle launched a missle at their car, the car was filled with gunmen, and the helicopter had a nice time blasting bullet and bullet at the car, it ends up being one of the best car chases yet, next to the one in Tomorrow never dies, Goldfinger, and diamonds are forever.

4) Underwater battle - james bond and anya are inside a car underwater, when 4 scuba divers attack them with exploding water missles and spear guns. bond uses evasive action, along with mines, and his own set of water missles to hit up these people.

5) Machine gun battle in SUpertanker - this is a great set of james bond action, a non-stop no holds barred machine gun battle inside a ship complete with grenades. 3 submarine crews against one supertanker crew, along with bond.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great James Bond Movie
Review: This is Roger Moore's best 007 movie, alongside Moonraker and Octopussy. This movie has a lot of action for one of the classic bond movies. it also has a nice blend of humor that's well written out. James Bond kills a total of 11 people in this movie, and injures quite a few more. the opening sequence is one of the best. The Ski chase is the best of it's kind, it even out-does the sequence in The World is not enough. This is the first Car/Helicopter chase in the bond series. Where James Bond and agent XXX are chased by a helicopter equipped with missles and machine guns. After that they make a nice underwater battle against divers with spear guns, in the car. The fight with jaws is pretty kewl, their are 3 total encounters with Roger and Jaws. And the final fight inside the supertanker is awesome. 3 Submarine crews along with Bond fight the villains ship's Crew in a machine gun fight. This is the best bond movie of the 70's, along with moonraker and Diamonds are forever. The set's are amazing, with strombergs giant underwater structure, the supertanker, the egyptian ruins, pyramids, and a ski slope thing.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: James' Anglo-Soviet Cooperation & Rivalry At Sea
Review: The tenth film of the James Bond series gives the series a nice shot of adrenaline after the relative nadirs of Diamonds Are Forever and Live & Let Die. Roger Moore's third outing as 007 finally establishes solidity after the debut of Live & Let Die and the impressive growth into the character he displayed in The Man With The Golden Gun.

In addition to Moore's full growth into the character, Spy Who Loved Me is infused with a strong rival in KGB Major Anya Amasova. Barbara Bach admittedly doesn't show consistent acting prowess, but here she displays agreeable command of her character. Also adding life is Richard Kiel in his first outing as the natural successor to Sean Connery's over-the-top rival Oddjob - Jaws.

But the one who contributes the most among the supporting cast is Shane Rimmer as Captain Carter of the attack submarine USS Wayne. Rimmer, best known as Scott Tracy of Thunderbirds, infuses some of Scott Tracy's charm into the role and his interaction with James Bond clicks very nicely throughout. One almost regrets the absence of David Holliday, David Graham, and Ray Barrett to help out Rimmer.

The film's elaborate sets and SFX are also among the best of the series, and display a tremendous growth in sophistication. To put it bluntly, the FX work in most previous Bond films left almost everything to be desired. Now, though, thanks to the employment of Derek Meddings (like Rimmer a Thunderbirds alum), the series' SFX reach a new height of visual power and believability.

The film begins with a sudden power failure on board the HMS Ranger, a Polaris missile submarine that promptly disappears. Later, in Moscow, General Anatole Gogol (Walter Gotell, previously Morzeny in From Russia With Love) learns of an identical disappearence of the Soviet missile boat Potemkin. The two powers' summon their best agents, but first James Bond gets into a ski-top shootout with a Russian agent - who is the lover of Major Anya Amasova.

James and Major Geoffrey Boothroyd - aka Q (Desmond Llywellen) attend a meeting of Royal Navy brass and Defense Minister Sir Frederick Grey (Geoffrey Keen) - note the presence of the RN's flag officer for submarines, Admiral Hargraves, played by Robert Brown. Admiral Hargraves will succeed Sir Miles Merservy as M in future Bond films.

The meeting concerns a map displaying the route of the Ranger, a map illegally acquired via a powerful submarine tracking system that has gone on the black market - a transaction that leads to the mid-air destruction of a helicopter carrying the system's inventors. James must find the microfilm from which the map originated and get it back, but also on the film's trail is Major Amasova. The two agents begin a running chase to one-up each other as well as dodge hulking killer Jaws, and it ultimately leads to a rare bit of Anglo-Soviet cooperation.

This cooperation, however, has a fatal catch - Anya eventually learns the truth about James and her lover, a truth that sees a bullet in her sidearm with 007 on it.

All of this, though, takes a back seat to an insane plan involving the missing submarines, with which the USS Wayne eventually joins. The plan involves the firing of missiles, and if James and Captain Carter can't stop them, global destruction will commence.

And to make things even more complicated, James must sneak aboard the mid-ocean hideout of the magnate responsible for the plan, to rescue Anya and put an end to the threat once and for all.

And when it is all said and done, James and Anya find that Anglo-Soviet cooperation can also involve keeping their respective ends up.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Nobody does it better
Review: It's Colonel Paul Foster, aka Michael Billington in a bit part! And he gets a bit with a Russian agent. This being a PG it's the quietest consummation I've ever heard. Oh, how I've missed that hairy chest. For those of you not in the know, Michael Billington is the beefcake who co-starred in Gerry Anderson's seminal Seventies Sci-Fi classic 'UFO'. I try to name drop it wherever I can. Despite lovely eyes and a sonorous voice, Mr Billington remained a sadly under-used resource in film and TV, here having an unfortunate altercation with customized ski-ing equipment after a mere minute and a half on film. Visiting Mr Billington's website is something of a sad affair. A one line description of each series he appeared in and a request for questions. Okay, Mike, what happened to your career? Never mind, thanks for making my childhood such a blast and it's good to see you again, albeit briefly. And nobody does it better. Or quieter, it has to be said. Nobody does it quite the way you do. Did you have to be so...so...unemployed? So I'm no Carly Simon. Not even Telly Savalas.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: "An entertainable 4 star action packed thriller!"
Review: The Spy Who Loved me is an entertaining movie with a lot of good action and enough thrills to keep you glued to your seat. The cast is okay and so is the acting. It's in no way boring but who wants to see Bond figuring things out? I like the fights and the love scenes (Just kidding)

The movie begins with an American and Russian sub disappearing from their mission. Russia sends their best agent, XXX, to check it out while America sends their best agent: Bond, James Bond! As the mystery unravels many surprises await the two agents! There's Jaws, the incredible big man with steel feet who just won't die even if Bond fights him on a train, in a car, in a submarine, and in this Egyptian place. Soon, the end comes and Bond discovers all the people from the two subs who sank and they help him fight the leader and his terrorists.

A great movie with lots of stuff to keep you enjoyed. See it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Barbara Bach-Best Bond Girl Except Sophie Marceau!!!
Review: The Spy Who Loved Me is the best Bond movie ever made other than The World Is Not Enough, and that's only because Sophie Marceau is a million times sexier than Barbara Bach. The part that really got me was that Anya would seduce the man who previously killed her lover. Great effects, Great gadgets, More than worth a rent.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A film even todays generation would love, SIMPLY THE BEST
Review: This is simply the best James Bond film ever produced. Its big, fun, charming and it bridges the gap from yesterdays slow, Cold War Connery Films, to todays flashy, techno Brosnan films. Todays James Bond audience could easily watch this and not get bored like they might in watching From Russia with Love (another great Bond film) because this movie is fast enough paced, has moments of light laughs, has Roger Moore at his Bond peak and a great villain, Stromberg. The submarine Lotus puts the old Aston Martin with hokey oil slick to shame in this film as well. The chase to the sea with the gorgeous Naomi (Caroline Munroe) in a helicopter trying to kill Bond in the Lotus is argueably the best car chase in Bond history. And when Bond uses a missle to blow her up in her helicopter, its awsome. Bond was never any cooler than in this film. Roger plays the part perfectly in this one. If you want a couple of Bond films for your collection, start it with this one. FIVE STARS. NO DISSAPPOINTMENTS.


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