Just watched “A View To A Kill” on the telly. It was one of the first Bond movies I ever saw, and I remembered it as fairly good. I was wrong. Kinda.

Because the plot’s not all that bad. Christopher Walken is excellent as the villain, a former KGB agent named Zorin. He wants to flood Silicon Valley in order to corner the international microchip market, and get filthy rich. He’s also the result of a crazy Nazi scientist’s experiments on pregnant women in concentration camps, and a psychopath. Just to top things off.

However, this plot is horribly executed. It has several dead points, and a lot of the plot’s parts take too long to be introduced. Also, the dialogue sucks beyond belief, and apart from Zorin all the characters are equally bad. And he was made good by Walken; the character in itself wasn’t really all that much, either. As if this wasn’t enough, Roger Moore might just be my least favourite Bond.

But at least there’s no gadgets whatsoever. A plus that’s negated by the Bond Girl, who just won’t stop screaming.

All in all, this is “Casino Royale”’s plot with bad acting, bad dialogue, bad cheese, bad dispositioning of the plot, and a Bond about as hard as plum pudding. 3.5/10.