The 11th James Bond movie Moonraker is essentially a remake of 10th James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. The villain is Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) an aerospace billionaire who has enhanced the toxic power of a rare Amazonian orchard and intends to use it to wipe out all human life on Earth (the toxin is human specific and has no effect on plant and animal life). Drax plans to keep a specially selected sample of the best of humanity alive in space until the pollen clears, and I'll be honest his plan is much better thought out and plotted then Karl Stromberg's similar efforts from two years earlier. Further paralleling Bond 10 Bond 11 sees the return of Richard Kiel's Jaws, and again teams the British Bond with a sexy foreign agent, this time Lois Chiles as a CIA operative named Holly Goodhead. Exotic locations include California (and kind of France), Venice, Brazil and outer space. A more refined version of its immediate predecessor, its maybe not quite as much fun but is better put together. ***
Ranking the Bonds so far:
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Dr. No
Thunderball
Diamonds are Forever
You Only Live Twice
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
Live and Let Die
The Man with the Golden Gun
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