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| - A British spy ship accidentally fishes out a mine and goes to the bottom. Unfortunately it contains a secret device that sends orders to British nuclear missile submarines. 007, after visiting Tracy's grave and dropping someone who strongly resembles Blofeld down a chimney (at what is now the location of the Millennium Dome, which would feature in The World Is Not Enough), is sent to find the ship and who was responsible for the murders of two people looking for it. While shadowing his target, he is captured and then saved via a crossbow bolt, after which he meets Melina Havelock, the Girl of the Movie and a Hot Amazon Archer who wants to get Revenge for her murdered parents.
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| - A British spy ship accidentally fishes out a mine and goes to the bottom. Unfortunately it contains a secret device that sends orders to British nuclear missile submarines. 007, after visiting Tracy's grave and dropping someone who strongly resembles Blofeld down a chimney (at what is now the location of the Millennium Dome, which would feature in The World Is Not Enough), is sent to find the ship and who was responsible for the murders of two people looking for it. While shadowing his target, he is captured and then saved via a crossbow bolt, after which he meets Melina Havelock, the Girl of the Movie and a Hot Amazon Archer who wants to get Revenge for her murdered parents. One of the very few Bond films in which the Soviets are explicitly bad guys (the others tend to involve them as allies against a common evil). Even here, they are more respectful competitors; after all, if you hear of a chance to get a key item that could give you a strategic advantage over your official enemies, you'd have to be a utter idiot not to make a play for it. As it is, General Gogol not only survives uninjured in the attempt, but stops Bond from being shot when he destroys the device at the end of the film and concedes the loss without a fuss. This film is somewhat of a mish-mash of two Fleming short stories (For Your Eyes Only and Risico), with a scene from Live and Let Die thrown in and some more plot added. It has also been compared to From Russia with Love, as the aforementioned secret device is similar to a MacGuffin featured in the earlier film. Perhaps as a reaction to the perceived excesses of goofy humour and credibility-stretching adventure in the previous movie, Moonraker, this movie is far closer to a classic spy yarn, with almost no gadgets deployed, no "larger than life henchman with a gimmick" and the bad guys simply being shot (in one case) and going away empty-handed in the other. The dark tone to the film (by far the darkest for Moore) oddly comes from Timothy Dalton. When he was first courted by Cubby Broccoli he was asked what kind of Bond he would play. He briefed Cubby on a much darker, edgier Bond grounded in reality, and this script was born, making a note of killing off the main series villain before the opening credits to make way for the new direction. By the time the new script was ready, Moore had decided to do another one, and Dalton that he was too young to play Bond. so with the script ready & waiting, Moore slipped into this moody and morally ambiguous Bond, something we didn't see again until Timothy Dalton took the role. Memorable moments in the movie:
* The pre-titles sequence, in which a helicopter is flown indoors and then Bond gets his revenge on Ernst Stavro Blofeld once and for all for Tracy.
* The famous (and still tense on re-watch) scene in which Bond is hanging from a cliff.
* The Colombo/Kristatos switcheroo, in which the latter turns out to be the villain after it's initially made out that he's the goodie.
* A Margaret Thatcher impersonator (complete with her own Denis).
* Bond kicking a car off a cliff.
* Car chase in a yellow Citroën 2CV through olive groves.
* Underwater fight between Bond, Melina and a villain in a JIM suit.
* A Bond Girl with a crossbow.
* The Bill Conti-composed disco-like score.
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