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This may well be the best of the Roger Moore Bond movies. Terrific action throughout, complete with many many surprises, gadgets, do anything sports car, and truly terrific sets. The main villein is perfect, and his employees are brilliant, one giant of a man being particularly macabre. True, its an old movie now, yet its just so hammy it has a timeless charm. And the locations are charming as well. The plot is classic, and resolves itself in such a brilliant way as to have one truly on the edge of one's seat (certainly by the all explosive end, if not way before). Roger Moore is debonair and slightly restrained with plenty of silly one liners. His beau is magnificent, also restrained but with real charisma. No wonder she married a Beatle. One simply cannot go wrong with this gem.

To me, this has always been Roger Moore's 'Goldfinger': a brilliant James Bond film and one of the most definitive of the whole series. It really sets the standard.When Russian and British nuclear submarines are stolen at sea, the two countries immediately assign their best agents to find out what happened. James Bond 007 and Russia's Major Amasova XXX try to track down those responsible before the other does. They are later ordered to join forces and stop the villain's larger plan escalating into world war.This film has some of the most fantastic action and settings in the series. Unlike weaker Bonds, the story never comes second to needless stunts. It moves along at a spanking pace while feeling completely unhurried. A few have called it a 'remake of You Only Live Twice' but the film feels like nothing of the sort. Truly one to enjoy.

James Bond (Roger Moore) teams with a sexy Russian agent (Barbara Bach) to stop a web-fingered megalomaniac (Curd Jürgens) from destroying the world and rebuilding it as a new Atlantis."The Spy Who Loved Me" is fabulous nonsense, superior to all the previous Roger Moore Bonds, even with the obvious model shots, process shots and the occasionally corny background music by Marvin Hamlisch, who also wrote the music for the theme song, "Nobody Does It Better." (It's popular, but you can have it.) The gadgets, sets, stunts and one-liners are more outrageous than ever. Jürgens makes a good villain, and so does the shark he unleashes on traitors; but the bad guy everyone remembers is Jaws—not another shark, but a metal-mouthed giant played by Richard Kiel. He is Jürgens's best henchman—not good enough to outmatch Bond, but enough to survive for the next Bond adventure.