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Roger Moore’s final 007 movie, 1985’s A View To A Kill, is a bit of a Marmite outing even for James Bond fans – but is the film in a class of its own?.

This feature contains moderate spoilers for A View To A Kill.

“Ha ha, you amuse me, Mr Bond.”

“It’s not mutual.”

In a series as long and variable in quality as the James Bond franchise, we all have our biases as fans. For many, the highly subjective distinction between “good film” and “good Bond film” might go in either direction towards the modern Daniel Craig films or the earliest Sean Connery adventures. And for some of us, it may just be that marathoning Roger Moore’s Bond films in order does A View To A Kill absolutely no favours in either category.

As expected at this stage, the film has very little in common with Ian Fleming’s 1960 short story,...

With the success of Prey in 2022 and the anticipation growing for Predator: Badlands coming in November 2025, fans are getting even morePredator stories. From the creative minds of Dan Trachtenberg and Joshua Wassung, a new Predator animated anthology movie, Predator: Killer of Killers, has been announced with a trailer and a Hulu release for June 2025. This original movie follows the story of three different warriors across history — a Viking raider, a ninja in feudal Japan, and a WWII fighter — not only fighting for personal reasons, but for survival against the ultimate predator of every species in the universe. Honestly, you had us a Viking.

Before the big announcement, Trachtenberg spoke with a group of journalists during an edit bay visit, at which Collider was in attendance. In teeing up the news, he recalled how, after Prey, he started to play with the idea of what other time periods the Predator could be dropped into.

While the James Bond movies often featured goofy title drops, Roger Moore’s last film as 007 saw the series hit a new low when it came to this corny tradition. It is often difficult for the James Bond movies to work in a reference to each franchise outing’s title during the movie itself. While some of these titles, like 2012’s Skyfall or 1964’s Goldfinger, refer to a place of a person, many of the James Bond franchise’s titles are phrases that can be awkward to work into dialogue without them feeling like forced fourth-wall breaks.

It might be easy to put the phrase “you only live twice” in a character’s mouth, but “on her majesty’s Secret Service” is a little more of a mouthful. While James Bond’s confidante Felix Leiter and his MI6 co-workers Miss Moneypenny, Q, and M often provide the requisite title drops,...

There’s still no news about who will play James Bond next, but Daniel Craig has well and truly moved on. The actor is now known as the Knives Out detective Benoit Blanc, a role that has earned him renewed praise. Additionally, the ever-stern Craig recently surprised fans with his comedic performance in a new, Taika Waititi-directed commercial for Belvedere Vodka.

However, there’s no denying that no matter what Craig does, moviegoers will always be reminded of the Bond franchise whenever they see him. His run as 007 is one of the franchise's most entertaining, with great action set pieces and great villains, some of whom have quotes that count as good advice.

“You're A Kite Dancing In a Hurricane, Mr. Bond.”

— Mr White, Spectre.

Bond tracks down one of the smartest Spectre members, Mr. White, in Altaussee, Austria, in order to find out more about Blofeld's secret organization.

With his recent turn in the hit series Severance, it is clear that Oscar-award-winning actor Christopher Walken has earned his reputation as a bona fide statesman of movies and TV. Known for his stilted speech pattern and odd performances, every line that Walken speaks onscreen is given an air of importance.

Whether he is saying something profound like in The Dead Zone or something silly like in Hairspray, the audience always listens whenever Christopher Walken has things to say. Though he has a wealth of memorable lines to his credit, only the very best have stuck with audiences forever.

"Every Once In A While, The Lion Has To Show The Jackals Who He Is" Mike, Poolhall Junkies (2002)

Though he isn't the most physically imposing figure, Walken's strong suit is playing odd-ball toughs who can use words like weapons. Poolhall Junkies was a relatively forgettable billiards movie that was made all...

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli revealed that the villain of each movie is always the first piece of the puzzle to fall into place: “We start by thinking about, ‘Who’s the Bond villain?’ We try to focus on that as the sort of uber story.”

Most Bond villains are pure evil, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re unlikable. Some of 007’s enemies, from Nick Nack to metal-toothed menace Jaws to literal femme fatale Xenia Onatopp, are undeniably lovable.

Oddjob

Harold Sakata set the standard for every Bond movie henchman going forward in the role of Oddjob, the loyal right-hand man of the titular gold-obsessed megalomaniac in Goldfinger. He has a razor-brimmed bowler hat that he uses to decapitate people (and statues).

Oddjob barely speaks two words in the movie – described by Goldfinger as “an admirable manservant but mute” – but...

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is a movie that used to be a punchline, and the name of its star, George Lazenby, a joke. Back in the '80s, there were only two "real" choices for best Bond, and they were Roger Moore or Sean Connery. Bringing in Lazenby was like suggesting that Captain Decker could be up to Kirk or Picard standards on "Star Trek." Yet, over the years, and as more Bond films have been released, suddenly it's gaining respect again. By Rotten Tomatoes rankings, it's even a top 10 film!

Part of that reassessment is that Bond no longer feels like a choice between macho Sean Connery and knowingly corny Roger Moore. We've Seen Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton, and Daniel Craig take a crack, and Lazenby's mix of Connery machismo with a bit of Moore-like humor (and a hint of tragedy) now falls better on a spectrum than into a binary.