The Extras If you've been reading my reviews of these Bond discs, you know I've been kinda down on the extras. The separation is a little clumsy at times, and there were moments where the dialogue was badly muffled, but the action scenes are big and loud like they should be. All the previous discs in this collection have had mono or stereo, so it's nice to know my back speakers still work. The Audio At last, Bond steps up to Dolby 5.1. But on the whole it's a real nice looking disc. Although this is the newest of the five movies I've watched so far, it also has the most spots and glitches on the print, which is a bit distracting at times.
The Video These Bond discs in the third volume of the Bond Collection have been pretty consistent- nice resolution 2.35:1 anamorphic transfers with a few too many spots on the print. The dialogue is wooden, the situations ridiculous, and the action totally implausible- but it's fun to MST3K your way through this one. Hell, I'm a better snowboarder than Bond is. The sequence is totally cheesy, because "California Girls" plays and the snowboarding is hardly breathtaking- but I think this was the first appearance of a snowboard in a movie. There is an interesting detail in the pre-credit sequence that bears mentioning, also- Bond's skis break so he takes the runner off a snowmobile and uses it as a snowboard. Apart from Grace Jones (ew!) and Tanya Roberts (ah!), there is a little sweetie in the pre-credits sequence driving the iceberg-shaped submarine, and there is a Russian agent Bond bumps into in San Francisco for no particular reason, other than to bring his "hottie count" up to four.
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As I mentioned Roger Moore looks way too old in this movie to get any of these chicks, but for some movies you gotta suspend disbelief. Q makes only a brief appearance at the end, peeping on Bond as he bangs Tanya Roberts in the shower. Gadgets is the most disappointing aspect of this one- there are none, except for a Sharper Image credit card that Bond uses to jimmy a window lock, and I don't think that counts.
Pretty good, but not that great- although there is a pretty cool stunt where Grace's character parachutes off the top of the Eiffel Tower, and then there's a kinda cool fight sequence (if totally implausible) atop the Golden Gate Bridge: Locales- we've got the English countryside, Paris, and San Francisco. Jones is an atrocious actress, which means she fits right in in this movie. Villains we've already covered- it's Walken and Jones. Oh, and his hired goon in this flick is none other than Grace Jones, who I'm sorry to say Bond sleeps with.Īnyway, as always it breaks down to villains, locales, gadgets, and hotties. Through a typically convoluted Bond plot, this leads to Zorin's fiendish plan to corner the world's microship market by destroying Silicon Valley. Walken plays Max Zorin, a genetically engineered psychotic former KGB agent millionaire industrialist horse-breeding enthusiast (how's that for a pedigree?) whose horses seem to be winning all their races. Don't get me wrong, his acting sucks in this movie as bad as everyone else's, but Christopher Walken's like sex and pizza: When he's good, he's really good, and when he's bad, he's still pretty good. The other thing that redeems it is Christopher Walken. But most of all this movie has camp value - it's fun to sit there and make fun of every last detail, and that redeems it quite a bit.Ī man has fourteen pantomimes that give away when he's lying. I was at least able to follow the plot (which is not to say it wasn't as ludicrous as any Bond film - just that I could follow it). But, at the same time, I have to say I was more engaged in this one that I have been in any of the previous four Bond films I've watched in the last week. Mainly because the acting is terrible, and I mean terrible, but also because the action sequences, although they're pretty good, seem kind of stale. The Movie Believe the hype, folks - this is a very bad film.
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