Review – Moonraker

This Bond episode is too desperately a reaction to the Star Wars craze of the late 70s, and a belated one at that. Despite a promising start, by this point the Moore Bonds had degenerated into the silly, gadget-happy farces for which he became known. The story’s not bad: a megalomaniacal millionaire decides the human race needs a little housecleaning, so he concocts a plot to exterminate everyone on the planet but leave the plants and animals intact so his cadre of hand-picked supermen (and women) can return to Earth from a hide-out in outer space and basically start humanity over from scratch. Naturally everyone’s favorite  agent uncovers the plot and manages to foil it via the usual series of chases, gun battles and sexual encounters. The result is a solid mid-packer in the series, not the best Bond by a long shot but nowhere near as bad as some of the worst. Mildly amusing