Sunday, February 17, 2008

Moonraker

Produced in 1979, Moonraker is easily the worst James Bond movie ever made, though adjusted for inflation, it produced more revenue than the subsequent Bond movies up until Daniel Craig's Casino Royale.

This Roger Moore-based Bond movie has him tracking down Hugo Drax, the evil scientist, leader of Drax Industries, who has designed and developed several space shuttles. The one delivered to the United States is mysteriously hijacked and Bond must find it. Drax's idea is to take a super race of humans to outer space, destroy the Earth, then repopulate the Earth with his new super race.

Along the way, Bond meets metal-mouthed Jaws (Richard Kiel) and Dr. Holly Goodhead, which we assumes she does.

In his quest to stop Drax, he must hi-jack his own space shuttle into outer space to stop them from blowing up the Earth.

Of course, Bond succeeds, but only with the quick thinking of NASA which sends up their own shuttles with armed space soldiers who fight a galactic laser battle with the Drax soldiers. The whole movie loses all credibility at this point.

On succeeding, he begins his flight back to the Earth, but not before shacking up with the beautiful Dr. Goodhead. Much to his surprise, Q has decided to remote into the vehicle and simulcast to Buckingham Palace and the White House congratulate him, only to catch him in the midst of re-entry.

I give this movie 2 stars. Of the Bond movies, I liked this one the least. It just bordered ridiculous, rather then inspiring. The best part of this movie was the silhouettes of the naked women at the beginning.

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