Netflixadded seven James Bond moviesto its streaming program library this calendar week . Withtoday ’s Kentucky Derby in the book , one of those fresh - sum up Bond titles seems particularly ripe for revisiting:1985 ’s A vista to a putting to death , starring Roger Moore . It ’s hokey enough to make you cringe , but with a chronicle line that weave together Equus caballus racing , Silicon Valley greed , and the weaponization of tectonic plate , it ’s a fascinatingly futuristic clip capsule .
I ’ll try out to keep the mollycoddler to a lower limit here , because if you have n’t already seen this movie four dozen times during any of the Bondamania 007 - a - thons that 2nd - tier TV networks roll out three times a yr , you really should . Here , I’ll even link you to Netflix again . Have you watched it now ? Good .
The plot hinge around defective guy Max Zorin ’s design to ruin Silicon Valley , by blow up explosives under the Hayward and San Andreas mistake to trigger both a devastating outpouring and an unlikely - sounding “ double earthquake . ” pass over out Silicon Valley ’s microchip producers , Zorin would thus guarantee that his microchip society , Zorin Industries , would suddenly have a stranglehold on the market .
Do n’t worry , attachment preclude all of that from bump — by posture as a affluent racehorse owner to gain entry into a horse sales agreement at Zorin ’s estate . There ’s a delightfully cheesy subplot here , involving Zorin ’s cavalry doping techniques , that you really must see for yourself , as well as the Bond franchise ’s best horse cavalry chase scene .
A lot has change since Zorin attempted to wipe out the Silicon Valley of 1985 . The notion that a seismic disaster in California would hobble the world ’s electronics producers is laughably quaint in our era of industrial outsourcing . Today ’s well - heeled collective villain would likely be better serve by a team of cyber-terrorist , whose digital destruction would be much more far - reaching than any California flood . And issue forth off aparticularly quake - y April , it does n’t seem like earth ’s tectonic plates need any boost from a fanatically mad supervillain .
But there ’s something wizardly about Zorin ’s unlawful approach . Rather than build ( or stealing ) a mega - weapon , some kind of nuclear - power laser bomb that will blow up the moon or a arugula that would lasso Australia and drag it into the wrong cerebral hemisphere , Zorin turn the landscape around him into the world ’s greatest weapon . Despite the insanity of its scale , there ’s something strangely subtle about it . Mother Nature would do the lousy body of work ; Zorin would just do the nudging . There ’s a noted subtext of “ playing god ” here , too . It ’s very in effect .
And how could we blank out perhaps the greatest Bond song ever immortalise ?
Yes , Roger Moore was nearly sixty year old in this , his last Bond movie . And yes , at times the plot gets strangely bloated and convoluted ( waitress , are the Soviets supposed to be our friends now ? ) . That trend of over - ramification come to its inauspicious low-water mark in the Brosnan - as - Bond era , but here we see the down volute starting already .
Despite all of that , it ’s still a tremendous movie . Bond flicks by nature require a hint special respite of mental rejection , and this one ’s no different . It ’s a trivial morsel camp , but I cerebrate it ’s done with just the correct amount of ego - awareness . Roger Moore always comes across as being in on the joke .
A View to a Kill seems to be semi - forgotten among Bond movies . It ’s not quite old enough to be counted as a classic the way the Sean Connery films are , but herald from 1985 it comes across as doubtless dated . No matter . It ’s a peachy flick , and unexpectedly enjoyable to revisit . As attachment movies go , you might say it ’s a sullen horse . [ Netflix ]
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