The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

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	Year of first release: 1977
	Director: Lewis Gilbert (Moonraker, You only live Twice)
	Actors: Roger Moore (Octopussy, Moonraker), Barbara Bach (The Great Alligator), Curd Jürgens (The Longest Day), Caroline Munro (Maniac, Starcrash)
	Country: USA, GB
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 07.11.2017, in-flight entertainment 8" screen
Synopsis: When both a Russian and British nuclear sub-marines vanish, secret agent James Bond (Moore) is sent on a mission to recover the plans of the device that can detect such sub-marines.
Review: This James Bond movie, older than me and that I had seen several times in my youth, has not aged so well, as I also wrote about the previous one in the series: The Man with the Golden Gun. The best elements in this movie are the well-played Bond villain with his underwater lab (very cool design), Doomsday plot and sharks (but not equipped with lasers like Dr Evil wishes in Austin Powers), the classic apparitions of M and Q, some exotic settings, the disco-funk theme, the tension with the Soviets and the teaming-up with their best agent played by the lovely Barbara Bach, seen as scream queen in The Great Alligator. Also note the presence of another scream queen: Caroline Munro known from her roles in Maniac and Starcrash. But all of that was not enough to compensated for too slow Action scenes including feeble fist fights. I also found the character of the Russian spy unrealistic and the womanizing of Bond indecent. And the story is partly a mix between the other Bond films Thunderball with Sean Connery from 1966 and the following in the series Moonraker from 1979 (including the presence of Richard "Jaws" Kiel). I would very much like to watch again the latter which is in my memory one of the best Bonds, even though and maybe because totally megalomaniac. I don't know if it stood well the test of time. The Spy Who Loved Me did not.
Rating: 4 /10