Thursday, 11 July 2013

Third time the charm

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Directed by Lewis Gilbert this 10th entry in the Bond franchise stars Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jurgens and Richard Kiel. With a British nuclear submarine missing Bond is put on the case and runs into a Russian agent on the same job.

After two weaker efforts Moore finally got a decent script to work with and this is possibly his best entry into the series. The plot stretches realism a little but this is the Bond franchise and Bond's Russian counter part provides a strong, capable female character which is a nice change in the series. Where the film does best in providing good production value in some great sets and two of the iconic action sequences of the series (the pre title ski sequence and the underwater car).


4/5

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