Zorin, who had escaped in his airship with Scarpine and Mortner, abducts Sutton as Bond grabs hold of the airships mooring rope. Sutton escapes while Bond fights May Day when she realises Zorin abandoned her, she helps Bond remove the larger bomb, putting the device onto a handcar and pushing it out of the mine, where it explodes, killing her. Once in place, Zorin and his security chief Scarpine flood the mines and kill the mine workers. A larger bomb is also in the mine to destroy a "geological lock" that prevents the two faults from moving at the same time. Bond and Sutton escape from the fire, but when the police try to arrest Bond, they escape in a fire engine.īond and Sutton infiltrate Zorin's mine, discovering his plot to detonate explosives beneath the lakes along the Hayward and San Andreas faults, which will cause them to flood. The two travel to San Francisco City Hall to check Zorin's submitted plans, however Zorin is alerted to their presence and arrives, killing the Chief Geologist with Bond's gun and setting fire to the building in order to both frame Bond for the murder and kill him at the same time. Bond tracks down the woman Zorin attempted to pay off, State Geologist Stacey Sutton and that Zorin is trying to buy her family oil business. Later Ivanova takes the recording, but finds that Bond had switched tapes, leaving her with a recording of Japanese music. Ivanova's partner is caught and killed, but Ivanova and Bond escape. He then investigates a nearby oil rig owned by Zorin and while there finds KGB agent Pola Ivanova recording conversations and her partner placing explosives on the rig. Later, Zorin unveils to a group of investors his plan to destroy Silicon Valley which will give him-and the potential investors-a monopoly over microchip manufacture.īond goes to San Francisco where he learns from CIA agent Chuck Lee that Zorin could be the product of medical experimentation with steroids performed by a Nazi scientist, now Zorin's physician Dr. General Gogol of the KGB confronts Zorin for killing Bond without permission revealing that Zorin was initially trained and financed by the KGB, but has now gone rogue. Zorin identifies Bond as an agent, has May Day assassinate Tibbett and attempts to have Bond killed too. At night, Bond and Tibbett break into Zorin's laboratory learning that he is implanting adrenaline-releasing devices in his horses. Bond is puzzled by a woman who rebuffs him and finds out that Zorin has written her a cheque for five million dollars. During their dinner at the Eiffel Tower, Aubergine is assassinated by Zorin's bodyguard May Day, who subsequently escapes, despite being chased by Bond.īond and Tibbett travel to Zorin's estate for the horse sale. Through Tibbett, Bond meets French private detective Achille Aubergine who informs Bond that Zorin is holding a horse sale later in the month. Sir Godfrey Tibbett, a horse trainer and MI6 agent, believes Zorin's horse was drugged, although tests proved negative. Zorin's horse wins a race but proves hard to control. Upon his return Q analyses the microchip, establishing it to be a copy of one designed to withstand an electromagnetic pulse and made by government contractor Zorin Industries.īond visits Ascot Racecourse to observe the company's owner, Max Zorin. James Bond is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and recover a microchip originating from the Soviet Union. Christopher Walken, however, was praised for portraying a "classic Bond villain" It was the third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen, and the last to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny.ĭespite being a commercial success, with the Duran Duran theme song "A View to a Kill" performing well in the charts and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Song, the film received a mixed reception by critics and was disliked by Roger Moore. Wilson, who also wrote the screenplay with Richard Maibaum. In A View to a Kill, Bond is pitted against Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill", the film is the fourth Bond film after The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and Octopussy to have an entirely original screenplay. A View to a Kill (1985) is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
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