hyped garbage

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Movie Review: "007: The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)After pay-off and departure of producer Harry Saltzman (1915-1994) in 1975 at Eon Productions, former partner and now sole copyright owner Albert R. Broccoli (1909-1996) produces on his own for the 10th Bond production, which gets finally every future-cherishing production value into place as reprising, third "007" actor in history, Roger Moore (1927-2017), who finds his signature beats with agile action moves, punchlining humor and sense of understatement with a furthter female pendant cast in shapes of character Russian spy Anya Amasova, performed by actress Barbara Bach in knowledgable and active manners, yet not as convincing contra-given actress Diana Rigg in the 1969 "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".Director Lewis Gilbert returns for the second of total three "007" directing assignments and improves over the first directing job for "You Only Live Twice" (1967) in shapes of a lean directorial vision in steady-conceived cinematography by Claude Renoir (1913-1993), nephew to famous French art-house director Jean Renoir (1894-1978), in multiple changing exterior locations from Austria, London, Bahamas to Egypt before utilizing the world-biggest sound stage at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England. The action scenes are the most accomplished since low-budget beginnings with "Dr. No" fiveteen years ealier in 1962. The charms as ruthlessness of actor Roger Moore to become his own interpretation of the character James Bond carries "The Spy Who Loved Me" all the way in an 120 Minutes editorial by talented, first-time-hired editor John Glen, who gives the picture an taste of elegance back in combining advanced pyro-technical shoot-outs, grenade-throwings and major explosions on a giant-submarine-swallowing marin tanker under control by another off the "Spectre" grid operating all too passivlely-written Bond Nemesis Stromberg, portrayed by Curd Jürgens (1915-1982), who even by just sitting on a chair in a dining room of a metal mid-Atlantic isle-like station delivers striking beats toward the suspenseful final confrontation with James Bond. Meanwhile the iconic character of "Jaws", protrayed in a complete mute state by 7.2 foot-tall-actor Richard Kiel (1939-2014), who makes constant hunt on "007", which leads to well-choreographed full frontal action scenes between being hard-boiled serious and slight-winking comic.This 1977 summer release just two months after the worldwide phenomenon of the science-fiction action movie "Star Wars" directed by George Lucas, which shifted the attention of audiences weakening the "007" picture's performance at the U.S. domestic box office with just $ 47 Million in revenues against the still most successfull "Thunderball" from 1965 with earning $ 64 Million at the box office, which would equal an up to $ 300 Million inflation-clarified revenue in 2015. Nevertheless "The Spy Who Loved Me" marks the most successfull Bond movie to that day in 1977 with the highest attandence worldwide since "Goldfinger" in 1964, establishing upscaled production values, clear-structured screenwriting by newcomer Christopher Wood (1935-2015) and entertainment-bringing gadget performances skillfully interweaved into the romance-enhanced story-line, which steps away from the equally-titled ninth novel by author Ian Fleming (1908-1964) to succeed as fully accomplished two hour action-thriller motion picture entertainment.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

...And he's got some great help along the way!Meet Jaws, the extremely tall, tin-toothed assassin, able to rip apart a shark without the help of John Williams music. Richard Kiel made his first of two appearances in James Bond films, and he's a force to be reckoned with. In fact, he's even more fascinating than the main villain, played by Curd Jergens, the reclusive billionaire who lives in a spider shaped compound somewhere in the middle of the ocean. Once again, he wants to destroy mankind whom he blames for the destruction of civilization, determined to live at the bottom of the sea in harmony with marine life. It's up to the spies of the world to take this villain down, and of course, it will be England's James Bond (Roger Moore at his best) with the help of a beautiful agent from another country who gets to be the one to hopefully do it.With a backpack he wears skiing that can turn into a parachute just in case he happens to fly off a Swiss mountaintop, Bond escapes from his pursuers and lands in the middle of another wacky adventure. He's all over the world with a bevvy of beauties (most notably here the Russian spy Barbara Bach) who seems to be trying to dispose of him even when trying to seduce him. Jergens is first seen taking care of a beautiful employee whose carelessness threatened his mission, giving two horrified eye witnesses a front row seat to how he takes care of those who can't do their job, obviously quickly dispatching of them as well. Along comes Jaws who pursues Bond with his razor sharp teeth, seen literally becoming a daylight accessible vampire as he deals with those who step in his way. Bond and Bach quickly figure out how to deal with escaping from fancy cycle riders pursuing them, thanks to the special Chitty Chitty Bang Bang like automobile given to him by the agency. (Not a surprise, considering that Chitty was created by the same man who created Bond...) Down curvy European highways, into the water, and finally, onto a crowded beach, this adventure just gets more and more riveting and often hysterically funny.With a great theme song ("Nobody Does It Better") sung by Carly Simon over the very creative credits, this is one to be seen hopefully as part of a marathon with the over-the-top "Moonraker" (not even credited in the end) and the credited "For Your Eyes Only" which took four years to come out even though it got the "James Bond will return in...." reference. This is fun, non-stop from start to finish, and I'm sure would still play wonderfully on a big movie screen, accompanied by a ton of popcorn. "Moonraker" was a slight disappointment after this, but "For Your Eyes Only" managed to top even this. As usual, Moore has his tongue in his cheek, enjoying every minute of dropping clever wisecracks and acknowledging the goings on around him with an acerbic wit that for me makes him my favorite of all the Bonds.

This was a spectacular addition to the series and, in my opinion, the best James Bond film since "Goldfinger." It completely washes the bad taste of "The Man With The Golden Gun" out of your mouth.Roger Moore has perfected his take as James Bond by this outing. He is suave, sophisticated, and delivers the one-liners with aplomb. He is proving to be a worthy successor to Connery. He also doesn't try to be Connery, which is a very good thing.Anya Amasova/XXX, played by Barbara Bach is one of the very best Bond girls. Her Russian accent is incredibly fake, but she's so beautiful and has such an engaging personality that I didn't mind it. She had great chemistry with Moore.The plot, while essentially a reworking of "You Only Live Twice," is very fun and engaging and Lewis Gilbert (the director of "Twice"), continues his style of crafting big, epic set pieces that leave you in amazement.Carl Stromberg is a pretty awesome villain, but he is completely overshadowed by his henchmen. Jaws is a classic villain. He is super intimidating and is pretty much invincible. Bond is never quite able to put him away. He even kills a shark. Oh, my!The action is almost non-stop and keeps you on the edge of your seat. For instance, we get to see a thrilling chase with Bond using the Lotus Esperit, the best Bond vehicle ever next to the Aston Martin, and there are many tense fight scenes with Jaws and a heck of a climax at Stromberg's lair. Let's also not forget the opening sequence with Bond skiing off a cliff. Crazy.A fantastic addition to the series very much deserving of its classic status. Arguably Moore's best Bond film (just a hair ahead of "For Your Eyes Only"), and one of the very best of the series as well. As Carly Simon says in the wonderful theme song, "Nobody does it better" than James Bond.RATING: A

After a gunfight in Austria leaves one Soviet agent dead, "James Bond" (Roger Moore) is recalled from there to London on an assignment involving a missing British nuclear submarine. At the same time a Russian agent named "Major Anya Amasova" (Barbara Bach) is also called to Moscow and given a similar mission involving a missing Soviet nuclear submarine. Since the cases are almost identical the British and Soviets agree to pool their resources and send both agents to investigate the case. What nobody knows is that the Russian agent James Bond killed just happened to be the lover of Major Amasova and she is determined to get revenge on whoever is responsible. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this particular James Bond movie had several interesting novelties which greatly enhanced the overall film. First, it introduced the character known as "Jaws" (Richard Kiel) who appears on a couple of other James Bond movies after this. It also had a very unique car which doubled as a submarine which I thought was rather nifty. Likewise, it featured two attractive actresses by the names of Valerie Leon (as the Hotel Receptionist) and Caroline Munro ("Naomi") who are also featured in a later James Bond film as well. In short, although I don't believe that this ranks up there as one of the best James Bond movies ever made, it does have its interesting points and because of that I have rated it accordingly. Above average.