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A View To A Kill, released in 1985, is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill", the film is the second Bond film after The Spy Who Loved Me to have an entirely original screenplay. In A View to a Kill, Bond is pitted against Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley.
The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson who also wrote the screenplay with Richard Maibaum. It was the third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen.
Despite being a commercial success, A View To A Kill was received poorly by critics and also disliked by Roger Moore himself. However, Academy Award winning actor Christopher Walken was praised for portraying a "classic Bond villain."
