A View to a Kill

What starts out on an estate dedicated to breeding horses takes us to Sillicon Valley, that obviously needs to be wiped out. All this courtesy of one Mr. Zorin, formally part of a Soviet (of course it's the Soviets) experiment on children. They were treated with steroid to make them stronger and smarter.

Bond is undercover as a potential buyer of horses. He gets found out, knocked unconscious and pushed into a lake by Zorin's sidekick May Day (yes, May Day). Do you know how in films car doors never open underwater? James Bond does not have that problem at all. The door pops right open.

This is not the only occasion he spends under water in this film, he ends up there much later again - this time with May Day, whom he has previously bedded (obviously) and who is at this point pissed off at Zorin because she thought 'that creep loved me'! Zorin is willing to sacrifice everyone from his posse for his ultimate goal, which has to do with microchips (not that anyone cares). May Day and Bond team up to get out of their shared conundrum with May Day sacrificing herself to get back at Zorin.

There is a zeppelin and a blond woman stumbling through scenery, also one overly long unnecessary car chase with San Francisco law enforcement.

4/10

The Quiet Earth

Scientist Zac Hobson wakes up one day to find that everybody has disappeared. He believes that this is due to a project he and his team have been working on with (or for) the US.

In the beginning, he is going a little crazy, wearing a woman's nightgown and holding speeches to cut-out figures of famous personalities. Gradually, his senses come back and one day he chances upon another human being, Joanne. Together the set out to check the surrounding towns for any other survivors.

That is how they meet Api. After a while they figure out that the disappearance of the world population happened through some 'effect' caused by the project Zac was a part of. The reason the three of them are still alive is that at the precise moment the effect took place, they were about to die. Hence, their deaths kept them alive.

Zac calculates that the effect is about to repeat itself and figure out a plan to influence the outcome. The plan involves a truckload full of explosives. Of course, them being a group of two men and one women, eventually their relationship gets strained.

Whereas the character Zac is somewhat amusing and likable, I strongly disliked both, Joanna and Api.

6/10