Moonraker
1979  PG  ACTION  2h 6min
CAST— Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Clery, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell
MUSIC— John Barry  DIRECTOR— Lewis Gilbert  BASED ON— Moonraker (novel), by Ian Fleming

     Super silly James Bond outing sends him to the moon, Alice! Well, not quite; it is a space station, though. Bond begins his adventure by looking into the disappearance of a space shuttle from the Drax Corporation. Meeting Drax himself Bond finds the man to be a cold-hearted so-and-so that tries to murder him on numerous occasions. He discovers Drax’s plot to gather what he believes to be perfect specimens of the human race, take them to live and breed on a space station, wipe out humanity on Earth, then repopulate with his new master race. Easy-cheesy. In typical fashion Bond bursts the villain’s bubble (but hard), beds the babes, and quips the quips. Jaws returns to cause more metallic mayhem; and, wonder of wonders, could there be love in the air for this braced beast? Add to this a totally ridonkulous sci-fi laser gun shoot-out climax and you have one of the most unusual Bond films to date.
OUR RATING— ** ½
PRECEDED BY— Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Diamonds are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
FOLLOWED BY— For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), The Living Daylights (1987), License to Kill (1989), GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), Die Another Day (2002)