After Bond's Sci-fi adventures in 'Moonraker' he is back to Earth with an altogether more routine case; a British spy ship has been lost off the coast of Albania along with its ATAC device. The ATAC enables encoded messages to be sent to Britain's Polaris submarines and any enemy getting their hands on it could pass false commands to the submarines ordering them to attack anywhere including the UK. Two local agents, the Havelocks, are asked to search for the wreck but they are murdered. Bond tracks down the killer but he is killed by the Havelocks' daughter Melina before he can be questioned. While that lead is lost Bond manages to identify the man who employed the assassin and follows a lead to Cortina where he bumps into Melina again and engages in some winter sports with gun toting bad guys! He also meets his contact Kristatos who warns him that the villain he has to worry about is a Greek smuggler named Columbo... assuming Kristatos can be trusted of course.
This film had plenty of exciting moments; highlights include a car chase in a 2CV, the ski chase where bond is pursued by armed men on bikes and the final confrontation in a remote monastery. Unfortunately while it does feature these greatest pieces the story itself is less memorable; he is just trying to retrieve a piece of kit that the bad guy will sell to the Soviets not stop another megalomaniac destroying humanity from his futuristic lair... of course this return to reality might be seen as an improvement by some viewers! Roger Moore continues to perform well delivering plenty of wry asides but also showing a more dangerous side when he killed a cornered assassin. Carole Bouquet does a decent job as Melina as does Topol in the role of Columbo; unfortunately Julian Glover is fairly forgettable as bad guy Kristatos although this is largely down to the character. Over all I was a little disappointed with this instalment in the franchise but it is still worth watching.
This film had plenty of exciting moments; highlights include a car chase in a 2CV, the ski chase where bond is pursued by armed men on bikes and the final confrontation in a remote monastery. Unfortunately while it does feature these greatest pieces the story itself is less memorable; he is just trying to retrieve a piece of kit that the bad guy will sell to the Soviets not stop another megalomaniac destroying humanity from his futuristic lair... of course this return to reality might be seen as an improvement by some viewers! Roger Moore continues to perform well delivering plenty of wry asides but also showing a more dangerous side when he killed a cornered assassin. Carole Bouquet does a decent job as Melina as does Topol in the role of Columbo; unfortunately Julian Glover is fairly forgettable as bad guy Kristatos although this is largely down to the character. Over all I was a little disappointed with this instalment in the franchise but it is still worth watching.