The umpteenth or so 007 adventure -- but who's counting? Whoever is, will probably also know, among other trivia, whether or not the standard announcement in the closing credits that "James Bond Will Return" has ever before been made without an accompanying title. The title here, scraped up like those of Octopussy and For Your Eyes Only from an Ian Fleming short story, strikes perhaps the one literate note in a script that, even by the declining standards of this series, is abrupt, sketchy, and presumptuous -- qualities bound to creep in as formula tightens its grip. The only notable changes (recently) from movie to movie would seem to be Roger Moore's age and the identity of the "guest villains." Inasmuch as the latter here -- two "steroid kids" from the laboratory of a monocled German scientist -- are a couple of fashion-magazine types, Christopher Walken and Grace Jones, the conflict appears to have evolved from East vs. West into Youth vs. Age. Moore, at any rate, establishes himself here as the screen secret agent most reliant on his stand-in since Dean Martin's Matt Helm. With Tanya Roberts; directed by John Glen. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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