Moonraker

Pros: Good 1970s Star Wars-like effects, some nice action sequences, plus "eye candy"
Cons: Strange marriage of Bond Formula with Star Wars-inspired space battles.

When I was much younger - say, my late tweens and early teens - I used to love watching James Bond flicks. Back then, I really didn't care much about which actor was portraying Her Majesty's Secret Service Agent 007, because at that age I couldn't ...

Pros: Entertaining movie.
Cons: Some effects not that good.  Silly at times.

Over the course of ten movies, the Bond movie series was very successful and it survived several changes.  Despite saying that For Your Eyes Only would be the next Bond movie at the end of ...

Pros: special effects were good, especially for the time period
Cons: just about everything else

For years, you could put me in the category of those who didn’t consider themselves James Bond fans.  Back when I was growing up, the films weren’t frequently shown on network television, and right about the time I was of an age where I ...

Pros: Elaborate action sequences and special effects; Jaws; good outing by Roger Moore
Cons: Drama and character badly subordinated to special effects and slapstick; mediocre villain and Bond girl

The eleventh film in the Bond series, Moonraker, may not be the worst of the entire lot but it is at least competitive for that title. I rank it in the bottom quarter of the films, notwithstanding the fact that it was the highest grossing of the ...

Pros: Excellent special effects, always a delight to see the ingenious new toys.
Cons: Not the best of the lot but this one goes right down the middle.

If you are like me, when you were a kid whenever any James Bond movie came on, or Star Wars you would drop what you were doing just to make it to the television set and watch it. I have collected every one of the James Bond movies, and I actually ...

Pros: Rio de Janeiro, Lois Chiles, Ken Adams' production design, boat chase
Cons: Jaws falling in love, far too much emphasis on comedy

“Moonraker” is considered the weakest of all the classic Bond’s which came between 1962 and 1987. You can see why it is described as so - it is without doubt the most spectacular of all the Bond’s so far with the 70 million dollars up ...

Pros: Clery, Q’s last line, score
Cons: Moore, Chiles, Lonsdale, uneven FX, Song, plot

James Bond (Roger Moore, looking seriously leathery by this stage) investigates the hijacking of the title space shuttle (on loan to the Brits from the Yanks), with all signs pointed towards one Hugo Drax (multi-lingual French actor Michael Lonsdale), a ...

Pros: Stunning locals, a comfortable performance from Moore. Looks like a millon bucks
Cons: Too many to say in 15 words...

Moonraker is a enjoyable motion picture.It's not the best film in the series but it's easily one of the best looking. The locations are all superbly selected and beautifully photographed.And in addition,the stuntwork and special effects are uniformly exce ...

Pros: Beautiful sets, great locations. Jaws comes back. Holly Goodhead. Some really good effects.
Cons: Lousy disjointed script. Awful representations of space.

Following The Spy Who Loved Me audiences were informed that the next James Bond movie would be For Your Eyes Only. Well the producers had not realized what a hit Star Wars would be. But hoping to take advantage of the same market...

Pros: Characteristic of it's genre, Venice and Rio scenes
Cons: The whole space thing, the awkward Jaws

With only about four or five Bond films left to see, I picked up Moonraker. I had waited so long to see it, because science fiction and space related movies are not exactly my first choice. Moonraker was made in 1979, and it stars Roger Moore, who is...

Pros: The usual...gorgeous babes...dastardly villains...James Bond
Cons: Michael Lonsdale is a horrible Bond villain...Lois Chiles is not the best selection to be a Bond girl...and there are implausibilities so large in the story, you can drive a truck through 'em

The time: the late seventies. The climate: ripe for the production of science fiction space films, what with the success of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The place: London, England...specifically, the offices of M.I.6, the...

Pros: Bond, Q, weapons, women
Cons: 70's B-Movie feel

I am a Bond fanatic. I admit it. I own every Bond movie, collect memorobila, and well versed in the various movie scripts of the series. Yesterday for about the 5th time since aquiring it I saw Moonraker. The first time you see a movie you usually just...

Pros: Good action, Goodhead is good
Cons: Long, some implausible moments

I am a Bond fan. Moonraker is in one of my Bond giftsets, so i decided to watch it last night and write up a report on it. It is not the best Bond, but it is watchable due to the core Bond themes of beautiful women, exotic locales, timely lines and...