The film opens with a skiing sequence in which snowboarding is accompanied by the Beach Boys song "California Girls," obviously the decision of a music director skunked out on laced weed. After Bond escapes in a styrofoam boat, we get to witness a good hour involving horses, horse racing, and microchips that make them run faster -- an entire section of the movie that easily could have been excised given that Max Zorin's (Christopher Walken) goal is to cause an earthquake and wipe out Silicon Valley. His henchman is played by Grace Jones. One has little idea if James Bond is scared by her, but certainly the world's fashion designers must have been running for the hills.

"A View to a Kill" has the ugliest Bond girl in Jones and also the worst actress in Tanya Roberts, who plays a geologist and whose main function is to scream "James" about every five minutes. The rest of her lines are exhaled like an asthma sufferer in the middle of an attack.

Ignoring the non-existent direction, horrible dialogue, and mind-numbing acting, this Bond entry seems most notable for its unbelievable idiotic gadgets. Q's (Desmond Lleewelyn) favorite toy is the robot from "Short Circuit" whose only role in the film is to catch Moore and Roberts in the shower together. In addition to that, there's a poison butterfly on a fishing pole (who knows how Grace makes it hit anybody), something that looks like an old credit card swiper that shows James what was written on a check, and an electronic credit card that somehow manages to flip the hinge on an old window. Obviously, Q must have been on vacation prior to this mission.

However, my favorite moments in "A View to a Kill" are when Roberts is running down a hill at the end and Bond yells: "Stacy, behind you!" Next thing you know, Zorin reaches out of the window of his zeppelin and whisks her away. Also, Bond makes Stacy a quiche. Frankly, this Bond is so lame I'm surprised the producers didn't have him suffer from some sort of erectile dysfunction.