History Film / AViewtoaKill

* CoolGuns:
** Soviet troops are seen using CZ v. 58s.
** Zorin, alongside Scarpine, use full-size Uzis to brutally machine-gun his workers in the infamous mine massacre.

''A View to a Kill'' is the fourteenth ''Film/JamesBond'' film in the Creator/EonProductions series, the third to be directed by Creator/JohnGlen and the seventh and final installment to star Creator/RogerMoore. Also notable for being the final Bond film to feature Creator/LoisMaxwell as Moneypenny. [[InNameOnly The only thing this movie uses]] from the Creator/IanFleming short story ''From a View to a Kill'' (from the anthology ''Literature/ForYourEyesOnly'') are five words from the title and UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} as a setting. Music/DuranDuran performed the TitleThemeTune which is, to date, the only Bond song to make it to number 1 on the US pop charts.[[note]]This song only made it to #2 in the UK, however. It took another 30 years for a Bond song to hit #1 in the UK. Music/SamSmith's "Writing's on the Wall" from ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' not only reached #1, it ''debuted'' at #1.[[/note]]

* AsYouKnow: {{Subverted}}. During his briefing, Q gives a demonstration of a microchip to Bond, M and Frederick Gray until M cuts him off saying they all know what microchips do.

** Creator/TomSelleck strolls through the seafood market.

-->'''Bond''': Hello. I thought you might like to join the party. By the way, the name is James St. John Smythe. I'm English.
-->'''Stacey''': I never would have guessed.

* EvilCounterpart: Bond and Max Zorin. Both have a startling line/connection between sex and violence and are highly skilled. The key difference? While Bond remains loyal to MI-6 and to Stacey (a person he has only known for a few days and that he would not need to save in the face of the greater urgency to save the world), Zorin is a rogue KGB agent who even goes so far to betray his lover May Day and ''kill his own mooks out of pure, bat-shit sadism''.

* NeverTrustATrailer: [[spoiler: The trailer ends with the narrator citing the names of the main cast, showing scenes with their respective characters at the climax in the airship. However, May Day redeems herself and dies before this final confrontation, and her scene in the airship shown in the trailer actually takes place midway through the film.]]

-->'''Pola Ivanova''': James, that night in London when I was with the Bolshoi... Now, that ''was'' a performance.

** Also for Zorin. [[spoiler: In the final fight, you can easily tell when it's not Christopher Walken because the stunt double is wearing pale grey Reeboks rather than the light gray loafers. It's distractingly glaring during the moment Stacey grabs Zorin's pants leg.]]

* SoftWater: Averted twice. The first is when one of the executives gets ThrownFromTheZeppelin, and second is the scene where Max Zorin falls off the Golden Gate Bridge. Though that's the last the audience sees of him (ie. no body), it's pretty clear he is killed. Naturally, since many San Franciscans will tell you that simply falling from the street level is fatal (the body is immediately pulverized and the victim — if still alive somehow — drowns in their own blood); Max fell from the very top of one of the towers. Judging from the angle his body hit the water, it's also likely that he'd have ended up with a broken collarbone and neck regardless of how far he fell, which would also be lethal.

After a Zorin Industries computer chip is found in Siberia, Bond is sent to investigate the company at a horse race competition. With the help of the geologist (and GirlOfTheWeek) Stacey Sutton (Creator/TanyaRoberts), Bond finds out that the company's owner, Max Zorin (Creator/ChristopherWalken as a shamelessly over-the-top villain) and his lover May Day (Creator/GraceJones as one of the most genuinely intimidating henchwomen of the series), plan to destroy California's Silicon Valley to ensure he has the monopoly on the production of computer chips.