After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
The centrifugal assassin attempt is pretty interesting, but could have been better made. That hunting sequence doesn’t make any sense if he wanted to kill Bond then why not just shoot him? Why let him get away after he shoots on of his henchmen? And after that ridiculous scene you get a woman killed by dogs… Holly Goodhead… Goodhead really? The tone of the movie is all over the place. The gondola chase start promising out but ends up being another slapstick scene, with Bond driving the gondola through Piazza San Marco. It’s so effing dumb and serves no purpose. The Cable car sequences has the potential to really awesome, but sloppy editing, too much use of slow-motion and another awful slapstick ending with Jaws makes it dumb as hell. I really hate that moronic romantic subplot with Jaws. Aa always the Ken Adams production design is in a league of its own. The special effects are remarkable.
