One of the very best. More serious, more dangerous, more Bond! 1981. Director: John Glen.
Bond (Roger Moore) starts with a wild helicopter chase with Blofeld trying to kill him. Luckily, Bond wins the fight and sends Blofeld to death.
A british spy boat, St Georges, is blown up in the Ionian sea. On board, there's an important machine called ATAC. Bond's mission is to get it back from the bottom of the sea before the enemy lays their hands on it.
A marine archaeologist, Timothy Havelock, is contacted by the british government to locate the ship, secretly. He and his wife are shot and killed, with their adult daughter Melina (Carole Bouquet) seeing it all and she knows who the killer is.
Bond goes to meet the killer, Hector Gonzales (Stefan Kalipha) to get information but Melina kills him before Bond has time to go to action. He and Melina is chased in Melina's yellow little citroën by henchmen trying to kill them.
After identifying a hitman from Gonzales mansion named Emile Locque (Michael Gothard), Bond travel to Italy to meet Aris Kristatos (Julian Glover) who knows good things to know. He tells Bond that Locque is payed by a smuggler called Milos Columbo (Chaim Topol).
Bond and Melina meet again and decides to cooperate to find the St Georges, get the ATAC before the KGB and Melina promises to kill the man responsible for her parents death. But everything isn't what it seems, and it's going to be very dangerous!
This is a completely marvelous Bond film. It's much more serious then the prequel. It also includes great car chases, ski chases and just great action. The music is very good and creates the excitement. Roger Moore is getting too old and that's too bad.
The locations are very well chosen and it's perfect for a Bond film. Bond is more serious and in a scene he kills an enemy more brutal then in Roger Moore's earlier Bond films except for 'The spy who loved me' where Stromberg is shot with a lot of bullets which is pretty brutal.
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