If I know May Day at all I know she’d be carrying him out of there like John Matrix carries a log. And she screams when some sparks shoot out at her. Okay, she sort of saves the day, but only after Bond literally leads her by the hand out of a flooded mine. Worse, at the end when she realizes Zorin is a creep she seems helpless all the sudden.
When she has figured out that this annoying dipshit staying in their mansion is a spy, but then he “outsmarts” her by getting into bed really fast and saying he was waiting for her, Zorin smiles at her and it’s kind of like, “Oh well, I guess I have to have sex with him.” Unfortunately, the movie doesn’t treat her with the proper respect at all times. She’s as intimidating as any Bond henchman I know of, but way more fashionable. She sports a variety of interesting hairstyles and hoods, does some fight training in a leotard, dead lifts a guy and tosses him. If you’re gonna watch it, she’s the reason. And the guy takes a second to say, “Oh, that’s May Day.” As if it wouldn’t go…Īnyway, May Day is A VIEW TO A KILL. I don’t think it’s meant as a joke, but I got a big laugh when Bond and his spy friends are watching Zorin in the stands through binoculars, this incredible woman standing out in a startlingly red robe and enormous pope hat/graduation cap, looking like an extra in a Star Wars prequel, and Bond asks, “Who’s that with him under the hat? With the red dress?” as if he has to be specific.
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About the only interesting part of the horse section is when Zorin leads him on a crazy full contact horse race obstacle course which I feel should be against regulations.īut it’s at the race that we first learn of by far the best part of the movie: Zorin’s henchwoman/martial arts instructor/lover May Day (Grace Jones between CONAN THE DESTROYER and VAMP). One of them is not “he can pretend to be a rich guy interested in buying horses.” He spends a surprisingly long chunk of the movie pretending he’s trying to learn about horses when actually he’s trying to prove Zorin’s use steroids. There are many things that are fun about the James Bond character. So they send Bond to a horse race to spy on Max Zorin (Christopher Walken, hot off of THE DEAD ZONE), openly sinister CEO of the company that makes them. MI6 fears that The Russians could use them and then set off a bomb in space to destroy everybody else’s computers. The microchip is something designed to withstand the magnetic pulse of a nuclear blast. Both of them ski and snowboard, but Vin doesn’t think it’s funny to play a Beach Boys cover over it. See, that’s why Vin Diesel in xXx was so xXxtreme and Not Your Father’s James Bond. But when he uses a pontoon from the wreckage as a snowboard the novelty of the stunt is overshadowed by a total record scratch of a joke: they abruptly start playing “California Girls.” Worse, they didn’t pay for the original recording, using a soundalike by “tribute band” Gidea Park. One nice ‘80s-in-a-good-way touch that first shows up here is that John Barry’s score is infused with little hints of electric guitar noodling.Īlso it’s cool when he shoots a red smoke bomb into a helicopter to make it crash. He manages to steal a snowmobile, which gets shot and blown up by a helicopter gun (another connection to RAMBO). There’s some good stuntwork there – one of Bond’s skis gets knocked off, so he keeps going, balancing on one foot.
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That opening is directed by Willy Bogner, who also did ski sequences in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, plus ski documentaries and (non-documentary?) FIRE AND ICE (1986). The sequence includes some goofy imagery of skiing and a melting ice sculpture of a woman – kinda weird since we’ve already made it past the snowy part of the movie, when James Bond (Roger Moore, SPICE WORLD) recovers a microchip from a frozen corpse in Siberia and then skis away from The Russians (remember the threat of communism? Also mentioned in GOTCHA!, GYMKATA and RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II). It never reaches that majesty again, in my opinion This is a movie that kicks off with a model’s glowing orange fingernails slowly unzipping her fur-lined ski jacket, a luminescent 007 logo revealing itself as her breasts spread open (I honestly can’t tell if its printed on a t-shirt, or painted on her skin, both of which have their strengths) but that’s the peak. NO and did 14 of them in total (and also BARBARELLA!), but he captures a neon new wave sort of feel here when his women with black-light lips, eyelashes, body paint and guns dance through flames to the tune of the extremely of-its-time theme song by Duran Duran. The sequence is designed by Maurice Binder, who invented the Bond credit sequence with DR.
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