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. Although the title is adapted from
Ian Fleming's short story "
From a View to a Kill", the film is the third Bond film after
The Spy Who Loved Me and
Octopussy to have an entirely original screenplay. In
A View to a Kill, Bond is pitted against
Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's
Silicon Valley.
The film was produced by
Albert R. Broccoli and
Michael G. Wilson, who also wrote the screenplay with
Richard Maibaum. It was the third James Bond film to be directed by
John Glen.
Despite being a commercial success and earning a
Golden Globe nomination,
A View to a Kill was poorly received by critics and was also disliked by Roger Moore himself. However,
Christopher Walken was praised for portraying a "classic
Bond villain."