Suspension of disbelief past breaking point is kindly asked from the audience at the sight of 58-year-old Roger Moore, hastily lured back for one last gig as Bond and sporting a creepy toupee and a dismal tan. This fact alone doesn't give the film much room to manoeuvre, yet somehow the film just about manages to pull this off thanks mainly to John Barry's soundtrack, Alan Hume's interesting cinematography, an amusing Christopher Walken and a couple of effective pieces atop the Eifel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge. Otherwise, this is mainly tired, aspiring to be nothing more than what it delivers to an audience that no longer expects more than it gets. Bond's eventual teaming up with henchwoman Mayday (played by the deliciously eccentric Grace Jones) in the film's last section is the series' indisputably all-time lowest point.
Review of A View to a Kill
