The plot deals with yet another villain wanting to change the course of the world living secluded in a mysteriously unique construct. Traveling to deserts and oceans across the globe to go along with having the most explosive and destructive climax of the series, this film is first actual blockbuster in Bond's history. I think it's quite clear that The Spy Who Loved Me is the biggest Bond film to date yet (1977).
Sadly, save for a rare exception (For Your Eyes Only), this film charts the highest peak that the franchise would reach for quite sometime.Ĭonnery started out with three fantastic Bond films and it seems as though Roger Moore did as well. Also, steel-toothed oak Jaws makes for a henchman for the ages and the locations (especially the pyramids in Egypt) underlay the awesome importance of location, location, location in this franchise. The set design and set pieces remain some of the series' best, and the opening sequence ranks as Bond's best before Spectre came along. In this PG-rated spy adventure, James Bond (Moore) investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent (Bach) whose lover he killed. Oh, it's not without some choppy waters (doesn't Curd Jurgens' megalomaniacal oceanographer Stromberg know that nuking the land means polluting the waters too?), but the dynamic between Bond and the woman (Barbara Bach, beautifully playing Bond's equal) whose lover he killed makes for some great interplay. The best of Roger Moore's very different take on the super spy made famous by Sean Connery, The Spy Who Loved Me perfectly walks the fine line between serious and silly by putting story at the forefront.
A top-shelf return to the hard-charging action and cheeky humor that defined the 007 franchise, this Spy game boasts much to love even though it set up a slippery slope of series tropes that brought about absurdity in some of the later chapters.
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