BOND: MOONRAKER(1979)

Bond! James Bond!

Roger Moore returns as James Bond, and even
though he is excellent as always, this is one of the
weaker Bonds made! Not as bad as Casino Royale
(nothing could be that bad!), but probably the third
worst Bond made! Not even the wonderful Richard
Kiel can save this one! It starts out really great, with
great potential! But about 3/4 of the way through, it
takes a turn for the terrible! Oh well, nobody's perfect!

This is the last Bond movie for Bernard Lee(M)! He
passed away shortly after this movie! He played M
in every Bond movie('cept, of course, Casino Royale)
from Dr. No to this one!

This movie marks the third and final time around for
Shirley Bassey singing the theme song. There are
several classical compositions in this as well!
All-in-all, watchable, but not really memorable! C+

A review from an editor at Amazon:

This was the first James Bond adventure produced
after the success of Star Wars, so it jumped on the
sci-fi bandwagon by combining the suave appeal of
Agent 007 (once again played by Roger Moore) with
enough high-tech hardware and special effects to
make Luke Skywalker want to join Her Majesty's
Secret Service. After the razzle-dazzle of The Spy
Who Loved Me, this attempt to latch onto a trend
proved to be a case of overkill, even though it
brought back the steel-toothed villain Jaws (Richard
Kiel) and scored a major hit at the box office. This
time Bond is up against a criminal industrialist
named Drax (Michel Lonsdale) who wants to
control the world from his orbiting space station.
In keeping with his well-groomed style, Bond thwarts
this maniacal Neo-Hitler's scheme with the help of a
beautiful, sleek-figured scientist (played by Lois Chiles
with all the vitality of a department-store mannequin).
There's a grand-scale climax involving space shuttles
and ray guns, but despite the film's popular success,
this is one Bond adventure that never quite gets off
the launching pad. It's as if the caretakers of the James
Bond franchise had forgotten that it's Bond- -and not
a barrage of gizmos and gadgets (including a land-worthy
Venetian gondola)--that fuels the series' success. Despite
Moore's passive performance (which Pauline Kael described
as "like an office manager who is turning into dead
wood but hanging on to collect his pension"), Moonraker
had no problem attracting an appreciative audience, and
there are even a few renegade Bond-philes who consider
it one of their favorites. --Jeff Shannon

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Music playing is:
Theme From James Bond:
Moonraker!
By: Shirley Bassey