**The Spy Who Loved Me gives Roger Moore the perfect formula to show off his goofy Bond charm with exotic locations, extravagant gadgets, big battle scenes, and a great supporting cast.**

The Spy Who Loved Me is my favorite Roger Moore and one of the best classic Bond films. Live and Let Die was his first and a less conventional Bond movie. Man with the Gold Gun was ok, but The Spy Who Loved Me finally fired on all cylinders for Moore. Beautiful locations, exciting villains, a catastrophic nuclear threat, a strong, capable Bond girl, and a dangerous romance give Moore’s third outing as Bond the edge over his other films. The final battle with various submarine crews fighting an army of villains made for an exciting backdrop as Bond battled to save the world once again. Add to it all some of the coolest gadgets and vehicles of the franchise, one of the most iconic henchmen in Richard Keil’s Jaws, and Barbara Bach’s gorgeous Russian agent Major Amasova and you have one of the best classic spy films ever made.

We have here the ultimate 007 film.
This one not only has the aspects that make 007 films great: beautiful scenery, exotic settings, beautiful women, wit, non stop action, adventure, gadgets, etc., but it also has an epic story, the best of all the Bond films.
The story is a woman, who is quite capable, finds out her lover has been killed, and she vows to kill the man who killed her lover, but as the story progresses, she finds out that this man was not the devil she believed.
There is, of course, the other story, of a maniac who murders his employees, and this time it's not the head of Specter.
A lot of the spy work makes little sense, as does the motivation of "Jaws" (Richard Kiel), who became a fan favorite henchman.
But the main story is still the first one, and that holds this together, along with all the non stop action.
There is also a memorable scene where Bond thinks he is going to meet his boss, only to find someone else at the chair.
This is the ultimate Bond film, and I don't believe I am alone in claiming this is the best Bond film ever made, at least up to 2023.

Now, I am 100% in the "Sean Connery was the greatest Bond and had the greatest 007 movies ever made" camp...

... so take it to heart when I say that this is Roger Moore's greatest outing as 007 and one of the best 007 movies (with one of the best 007 introductory songs) ever made.

This is Roger Moore at his absolute finest in a games bond movie with Barbra Bach being a great female spy with one of the best, most suggestive, Bond Girl names since Honor Blackman's (this review probably won't make it past the censors if I wrote her character's name)... and that, of course, would be Agent Triple X... AKA Anya Amasova.

Anya Amasova.... yeah, we all like calling her Agent Triple X so much more don't we? Honey Ryder is still the quintessential Bond Girl, Honor Blackman still plays the Bond Girl with the best name, but Bach comes in third and we can actually write her joke name.

Anyway, the locations are amazing, and Moore has moments in this where we see the Connery Era cold blooded assassin come out of him, meanwhile the plot is still amazing and over-the-top, we have Jaws, and one of my all time favorite 007 cars ever featured.

The Spy Who Loved Me is one of the epic Bond movies, it is the Best Roger Moore Era 007, and one of the films that should be on everyone's Top 10 007 film lists.

**The Spy Who Loved Me gives Roger Moore the perfect formula to show off his goofy Bond charm with exotic locations, extravagant gadgets, big battle scenes, and a great supporting cast.**

The Spy Who Loved Me is my favorite Roger Moore and one of the best classic Bond films. Live and Let Die was his first and a less conventional Bond movie. Man with the Gold Gun was ok, but The Spy Who Loved Me finally fired on all cylinders for Moore. Beautiful locations, exciting villains, a catastrophic nuclear threat, a strong, capable Bond girl, and a dangerous romance give Moore’s third outing as Bond the edge over his other films. The final battle with various submarine crews fighting an army of villains made for an exciting backdrop as Bond battled to save the world once again. Add to it all some of the coolest gadgets and vehicles of the franchise, one of the most iconic henchmen in Richard Keil’s Jaws, and Barbara Bach’s gorgeous Russian agent Major Amasova and you have one of the best classic spy films ever made.

Roger Moore stares down a cooperative Russian spy with a faint British-American accent and an evil mastermind so unimportant, he merely makes a cameo in his own finale. Barbara Bach, who plays the aforementioned Russian, is easy on the eyes but thoroughly grating as an actress. It's a shame the subplot involving her ex-lover, who Bond unceremoniously ends with a rocket-propelled ski pole in the pre-credits sequence, is brushed aside so casually - I was looking forward to the tricky questions that situation seemed destined to explore as the two, naturally, grew close.

Loosed from that more serious-hinted stake in the ground, the film seems free to sail as far from reason as it pleases. There really isn't all that much to the plot, nor even anything particularly incriminating about the web-fingered evil genius Stromberg, but such shortcomings are somewhat propped up by another set of fresh locations (Bond in Egypt is an appealing prospect as a standalone), an appropriate number of nasty hired hands (steel-toothed tweener Jaws debuts in this film) and a welcome return to the gizmo-enhanced trickery of earlier chapters.

The series is beginning to show its age at this point, though: I think this is the fourth such adversary to dispense with his human trash by way of a shark tank. Brisk and spirited, but not especially memorable.