![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Zorin and Scarpine flood the mines, nearly killing Bond and May Day and murder all of the mine workers as they attempt to flee. Once destroyed, it would supposedly cause a double earthquake. A larger bomb is also on site in the mine to destroy a "geological lock" that is in place to prevent the two faults from moving at the same time. ![]() The next day, Bond and Sutton infiltrate Zorin's mine, discovering his plot to detonate explosives beneath the lakes along the Hayward Fault and the San Andreas Fault causing them to flood. Bond and Sutton escape from the fire but when the police try to arrest Bond, they escape in a fire engine. He kills the official with Bond's Walther PPK and sets the building on fire in order to frame Bond for the murder. Zorin arrives, holding them hostage, and then forces a city official to call the police. Bond soon meets state geologist Stacey Sutton ( Tanya Roberts), whose oil company had been taken over by Zorin, and the two team up to steal documents about his plan from the San Francisco City Hall. He catches KGB agent Pola Ivanova ( Fiona Fullerton) trying to blow up the rig, while recording Zorin announcing his plans. Bond later learns that Zorin is a psychopath, the product of Nazi medical experimentation during World War II, and later trained by the KGB.Ġ07 goes to San Francisco and spies on an oil rig owned by Zorin. In his airship, Zorin unveils to a group of investors his plan to destroy Silicon Valley in an operation he dubs "Main Strike" in order to gain a monopoly in the microchip market. Later, General Gogol ( Walter Gotell) from the Soviet Union shows up at Zorin's estate with several other KGB agents, but Zorin, an ex-KGB agent himself, becomes upset with Gogol and forces him to leave. Their intrusion is discovered however and Tibbett is later killed by May Day, but they fail to kill Bond in an attempt to drown him in a lake. They break into Zorin's secret laboratory and learn that he is using microchips in his horses to release a drug when prompted by a hidden switch. John Smythe (pronounced "sin-jin-smythe"), a rich dilettante. Bond steals a Renault taxi to chase May Day but fails to apprehend her.īond and Tibbett travel to Chantilly, France where Bond poses as James St. However, during their dinner at the Eiffel Tower, Aubergine is assassinated by Zorin's mysterious bodyguard, May Day ( Grace Jones). Aubergine informs Bond that Zorin is holding an annual horse sale later in the month. Through Tibbett, Bond meets a French private detective named Aubergine ( Jean Rougerie) to discuss how the horse won. While at the track, Zorin's horse miraculously wins the race Sir Godfrey Tibbett ( Patrick Macnee), a horse trainer, believes Zorin's horse was given drugs, although when screened prior to the race, it did not show any signs of doping. The retrieved microchip is also designed to withstand the damage caused to other chips by a nuclear explosion.īond and his superiors visit Ascot Racecourse to observe the company's owner, Max Zorin ( Christopher Walken). After Bond has returned to England, Q ( Desmond Llewelyn) has the microchip analysed and informs M ( Robert Brown), Bond and the Minister of Defence that its design is an exact match of a microchip made by Zorin Industries. Upon doing so, he is ambushed by Soviet troops but flees in a submarine built to resemble an iceberg. In the pre-title sequence, James Bond ( Roger Moore) is sent to Siberia to locate 003's corpse and recover a microchip. Christopher Walken, however, was praised for portraying a "classic Bond villain" It was the third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen, and the last to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny.ĭespite being a commercial success and earning a Golden Globe nomination, A View to a Kill was poorly received by critics and was also disliked by Roger Moore himself. Wilson, who also wrote the screenplay with Richard Maibaum. In A View to a Kill, Bond is pitted against Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story " From a View to a Kill", the film is the third Bond film after The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy to have an entirely original screenplay. A View To A Kill is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond series and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. ![]()
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