1985 · adventure · action · thriller
A View to a Kill
Directed by John Glen2h 11m1985
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
Our read: A View to a Kill (1985) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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