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When a massive underwater craft abducts U.S. and Russian submarines, global tensions are heightened to the brink of war. In order to find the true culprit, James Bond (Agent 007) joins forces with bea...( read more  read more... )utiful Russian agent Anya Amasova. Together they follow a trail that leads to Karl Stromberg, a powerful shipping magnate who is implementing a horrific scheme for world domination. Bond struggles to foil the plot, but Stromberg has provided him with a most lethal adversary: Jaws, a seemingly indestructible steel-toothed giant. Agent 007's adventure takes him to the Egyptian pyramids, under the sea and to a mountaintop ski chase.

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PG, 2 hr. 5 min.

Directed by: Lewis Gilbert

Release Date: July 13, 1977

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DVD Release Date: October 22, 2002

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  • SirPant
    September 23, 2009
    SirPant
    I think it?s safe to say that this is one of the best Bond films, it?s certainly one of my favourite Bond films! The end sequence is brilliant!
  • bradwest
    January 1, 2009
    bradwest
    One of the best for Moore. Introduces Jaws and gives him a female Russian counterpart alternately sleeping w/ him and then wanting to kill him. What more could a spy ask for?
  • hypathio7
    December 22, 2008
    hypathio7
    So this one has another ski chase scene early on like OHMSS. It is not as drawn out, but the zigzagging path Bond takes is more exciting in some ways and it is shot better. It ends with the first instance of Bond taking a leap off a huge cliff and releasing a British flag parac...( read more)hute. The opening credits feature a lot of jumping on trampolines and silhouetted naked women doing gymnastics with a kind of lame Carly Simon pop song for the theme. We find that the Russians will be involved in the plot of this Bond pic, but with an interesting twist. We are given a surprise when we first meet Russian Agent XXX, or Major Amasova. Barbara Bach, in the role of Anya Amasova, was absolutely beautiful and smart and strong. She and Bond are competing to retrieve the same intelligence and eventually start working together (the cold war is ending as the British and KGB begin Anglo-Soviet cooperation) on the mystery of what has been happening to several missing atomic subs. Well the movie Jaws had just come out a couple years before, and while this wasn't the first Bond film to include quite a bit of underwater action, the fact that a couple characters have to wrestle with the villain's shark and this pic includes a scene on a beach where the sub-car emerges from the water amongst many onlookers, suggests it was influenced by that other blockbuster. The plot involves a villain who is more comfortable among the fishes and plans to use nuclear submarines to destroy most life on earth and instead create underwater cities for his chosen supporters. The villain, Stromberg, has webbed hands, has at his disposal several ways to dispose of people he does not trust or like, and is fairly cutting edge with his surveillance system, monitors, and loud speaker system, but not particularly memorable as a character. His lair, Atlantis, as again designed by Ken Adam, might be my favorite Bond villain lair. This movie has the first appearance of one of the most memorable henchmen too, Jaws. Yes, Bond has to come to Anya's rescue when Jaws surprises them in the train, but I really don't think this movie has as much male chauvinism as some of the others. Agent XXX is able to handle herself, except Jaws is an indestructible giant, and Bond himself is just barely able to overtake him with some creative tech assistance. The locations are again exotic. The director, Gilbert, returning for his second Bond film brings a lot of humor and fantasy, which I like, to this picture. And it seems that he works very well with Roger Moore. I really liked the relationship between Bond and Amasova, the portable microfilm reader, a couple of the other things Q was developing, and the set design. The big gun and grenade battle near the end with Bond breaking British, American, and Russian sub crews (in blue and white shirts) out of holding cells in Stromberg's super-tanker to fight Stromberg's men (in red shirts) was too much explosion for me. I prefer the Bond who goes it alone or with just one or two colleagues, the witty Bond, the clever Bond who finds creative means to bring down the enemy. For the most part, this 10th film in the series fulfills those things.
  • sononothing
    November 29, 2008
    sononothing
    The Spy Who Loved Me opens with something happening to a British submarine. What happens we don't know, but we soon find out that the same thing has happened to a Soviet sub at around the same time. What's the world to do? James Bond (Roger Moore) must join forces with the beauti...( read more)ful Russian agent XXX (Barbara Bach) to find out what happened to the subs and who holds the technology to find them underwater.

    The Spy Who Loved is not only the best Bond film from the Moore era, it also ranks up there as one of the best of the series. After the previous two lackluster Bond films (The Man with the Golden Gun caused Harry Saltzburg to sell out his half to UA) the series goes all out with over the top gadgets and villains with super cool hideouts. I wouldn't rate Stromberg (Curt Jergens) on the same page as Goldfinger, but he is an interesting villain unlike the one that followed him.

    This film is a great Bond romp and even though it screams the '70's with it's disco soundtrack and numerous ascots it stands as a return to form that the series had not seen since Connery held the number 007.
  • stopitgoaway
    November 17, 2008
    stopitgoaway
    Roger Moore has always maintained that The Spy Who Loved Me is the best of his Bond films. Personally I prefer Octopussy and For Your Eyes Only, but this one certainly has its moments. The original novel by Ian Fleming was an odd-one-out in the book series, describing as it did h...( read more)ow an off-duty Bond saved a female hotelier from a couple of nasty hoodlums. However, in this film adaptation the novel has been completely jettisoned and replaced with a story about Bond thwarting a megalomaniac from achieving world domination.

    Bond (Moore) is partnered with Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach - most beautiful of all the many Bond girls) to solve the mysterious disappearance of two nuclear submarines, one British the other Russian. They follow the clues to the underwater lair of Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), an elegant and educated psychopath with a plan to destroy the world in a nuclear holocaust and retreat to his undersea empire. To add to their complications, Anya learns that her recently killed boyfriend was eliminated by Bond during an assignment.

    The pre-credit sequence is among the better pre-credit sequences in the series, involving an extraordinary ski stunt which many consider to be the most breathtaking stunt ever devised for a Bond film. Moore is good as Bond, Bach stunningly attractive as his partner (though not very convincing as an actress), and Jurgens provides a suitably over-confident villain. The location work in various locations, most notably Egypt, is nicely photographed. Marvin Hamlisch provides the music, marking a change from the usual composer John Barry, and Hamlisch's score is decent enough though it does have a dated '70s quality to it when listened to nowadays. The plot is totally implausible and self-parodic (if they'd stuck to the plot in the book though, it would've been almost impossible to make a Bond movie in the expected sense of the phrase), but director Lewis Gilbert cleverly plays it with tongue-in-cheek so that the absurdness of the on-screen events becomes curiously endearing. The Spy Who Loved Me is silly, entertaining and extravagantly spectacular.
  • Yelverton
    February 7, 2010
    Yelverton
    Nobody does it better than Bond. And Barabara Bach helps tremendously.
  • Tecnoandre
    January 24, 2010
    Tecnoandre
    A lot of action scenes in exotic locations in this excellent Bond movie.
  • skactopus
    January 9, 2010
    skactopus
    Lewis Gilbert's second James Bond film is nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to Bond films. This is a good thing.

    At just over 2 hours, The Spy Who Loved Me creeps along as it slowly unveils the story, which in the end comes down to a villain looking for power an

    ...( read more)d domination. The action is a little bit of a letdown. Other than a decent car chase with some good helicopter piloting, most of it is typical fist fights and mass shootings. As for the fancy gadgets, it all comes down to the car ... and some salt water.

    Once again, Roger Moore successfully pulls off James Bond. The memorable villain goes to Richard Kiel as Jaws, who helms the evildoer role for the first half, while Curd Jurgens steps in for the final half as Karl Stromberg. Bond girl Barbara Bach is a treat to watch and her part in the early going, as she goes head to head with Bond, is a nice touch to the story. The beautiful Caroline Munro stimulates the eyes with what little time she has. More please.

    The Spy Who Loved Me has all the necessary components of a Bond film. So just sit back and let Bond go to work. "Which bullet has my name on it? The first or the last?"
  • Eryri
    December 18, 2009
    Eryri
    Moore's best outing as 007. Fast paced with plenty of exciting stunts and a thrilling storyline. Witness the opening ski sequence and of course the Lotus car which goes underwater. And of course who can forget the baddie Jaws.
  • valcolon
    November 18, 2009
    valcolon
    Any James Bond Movie available is now in my DVD collection

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  • Cuish
    April 24, 2008
    Cuish
    Two words: Star Wars
  • darthmetalhead1
    January 26, 2008
    darthmetalhead1
    Why at the end of the credits did they Say James Bond will Return in For Your Eyes Only when Moonraker was next?
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