The Spy Who Loved Me: Critic Reviews

The film moves along at a serviceable clip, but it seems half an hour too long.

The ostensible hero is just a fleshy blur.

As always, story and plastic character are in the service of comic strip parody.

Of Roger Moore's seven James Bond pictures, The Spy Who Loved Me stands out as the best.

Never did top that first stunt.

1977's 007 still gettin' lucky in underwater lair.

Overwhelmed with its cartoonish absurdity.

As the Bond series moved deeper into the 1970s, the emphasis moved away from the inventive scripts that made the best Sean Connery films fine examples of the spy genre and toward the kind of feats of daring and visual spectacle.

It may not be Fleming but it is terrific fun.

... the first truly original Bond movie, this one is actually more tightly constructed than several of the adaptations and remains consistently surprising and witty.

007 lives in the best of the Moore Bonds ...

This is near-camp and its success sent a strong message to its producers about what audiences wanted to see: Bigger, bolder, louder, sexier.

The film has its moments -- Kiel's indestructible heavy racks up a good score -- but the rest is desperately weak.

One of the better Moore outings.

It's Bond with Roger Moore, and this is one of the best of his.

Not the best Bond, but not the worst either.

One of the best of the Moore Bonds, this is non-stop, gloriously excessive entertainment.

Not only Roger Moore's best, but one of the few Bond films that can stand apart from the series as a superb action movie.

The best Bond movie of the Moore era