After the rather excellent Spy Who Loved Me, the next film in the series was supposed to be For Your Eyes Only. But then... Star Wars happened, and of course suddenly everyone and their dog wanted to jump on the Sci Fi Space Adventure bandwagon. Enter Moonraker, a Bond film that shares very little in common with its source material (last time that happened the results were less than spectacular), and brings back Jaws from the previous film. How did it turn out? ....meh....
The film follows Bond as he investigates a stolen spacecraft (what, again? Seems space shuttles are easier to steal than cars if the Bond franchise is anything to go by...) and ends up at the door of Hugo Drax, owner of the company that makes them. Of course it all ends up being a diabolical scheme where the select elite are kept safe in space while the rest of the world is nuked. Yawn.
To be fair though, the opening of this film is awesome, with a genuinely great skydiving battle against Jaws. Sadly, the rest of the film isn't nearly as good, and it does feel like a bit of a "space cash in", which of course it is. A couple of action scenes aside the film is fairly forgettable. And Jaws talks. And falls in love. Urgh.
To summarise, it's not exactly terrible, but is mid tier at best. Sadly, the rest of Roger Moore's Bond film output didn't get that much better from here...
The film follows Bond as he investigates a stolen spacecraft (what, again? Seems space shuttles are easier to steal than cars if the Bond franchise is anything to go by...) and ends up at the door of Hugo Drax, owner of the company that makes them. Of course it all ends up being a diabolical scheme where the select elite are kept safe in space while the rest of the world is nuked. Yawn.
To be fair though, the opening of this film is awesome, with a genuinely great skydiving battle against Jaws. Sadly, the rest of the film isn't nearly as good, and it does feel like a bit of a "space cash in", which of course it is. A couple of action scenes aside the film is fairly forgettable. And Jaws talks. And falls in love. Urgh.
To summarise, it's not exactly terrible, but is mid tier at best. Sadly, the rest of Roger Moore's Bond film output didn't get that much better from here...