A View to a Kill: Critic Reviews

75%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

39%

RottenTomatoes: 41 reviews

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Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

40

As lavishly escapist as they are, the latest James Bond films have become strenuous to watch, now that the business of maintaining Bond's casual savoir-faire looks like such a monumental chore.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

This one, directed by John Glen, just follows the numbers, plodding from one unimaginative set piece to the next.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

While Bond pics have always traded heavily on the camp value of its characters, A View to a Kill almost attacks the humor, practically winking at the audience with every move.
Full Review » 4 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

A View to a Kill is often numbered among the worst of the series, but, upon closer inspection, this film is a vast improvement over Octopussy.
Full Review » 12 years ago
TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

It is exhausted and exhausting, an old joke retold once too often.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

42

This Bond eats quiche.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Ian Nathan Empire Magazine

40

Roger Moore's last Bond and not before time.
Full Review » 4 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

50

A View to a Kill is not the worst Bond film ever made, but it's closer to the bottom than to the top of the barrel.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film4

A workmanlike entry brings Moore's long and increasingly tired tenure to a close.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

80

Full Review » 4 years ago
Stefan Birgir Stefansson sbs.is

75

Bond is old but still cool
Full Review » 4 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

50

A View to a Kill is at least better than Octopussy, but it's so absurd as to make for a less than perfect time.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

60

Full Review » 6 years ago
Jay Antani Los Angeles Alternative

40

The aging Roger Moore rehashes his somewhat foppish Bond in this sad '80s installment with Grace Jones as a vampish villainess. Awful, and an embarrassment to the Bond mystique.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Time Out

Once 007 was licensed to kill; now he not only eats quiche, he cooks it himself.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily

60

Roger Moore's final Bond film is a solidly entertaining entry in the series.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Leo Goldsmith Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Moore's tryst with Grace Jones is, on the one hand, a well-intentioned attempt to tear down the Bond-girl color barrier, and, on the other, a rather disturbing image.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael A. Smith Nolan's Pop Culture Review

60

Moore's final Bond picture is one too late. Walken is a fine villian, though.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

60

Registers as another high-flying James Bond adventure story.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Dan Lybarger Nitrate Online

20

In this 007 film, former real man James Bond not only eats quiche, he literally bakes it.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI)

60

Moore should have bowed out after the superb "Octopussy", but this is still a pretty good time at the movies.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Brian Gibson Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

40

Full Review » 8 years ago