Moonraker

 

The Last Frontier

11th movie and we're going to space. Someone steals a space shuttle that the British was transporting for the Americans and the Secret Service sends their best man, James Bond. The only lead they have is looking at the shuttles manufacturers, Hugo Drax i California. And the instant he arrives Drax tries to kill Bond and it gets so obvious that Drax is behind it all so I don't get why Bond just calls for support. Meanwhile CIA have their own operative and as they goes around Venice and Rio trying to uncover his grand plan the CIA girl gets kidnapped and the clues leads to the Amazon. Where Drax has a hideout in some Aztec... or is it Mayan ruins? They travel to a hidden space station in orbit around the world where Drax begins firing special globes containing a toxin that will kill humanity so that he can basically wipe it out and start a new race with the people he gathered in the space station... his master race... It's the damn plot from the last movie!!! With the toxin idea from OHMSS!!!

Yeah, basically is. 007 and CIA destroys the radio jammer, the Americans sends up a shuttle with a platoon of space marines, an epic space fight occurs, the whole station blows up and as 007 and the CIA girl chases after the 3 globes that was fired, blasting them with the laser on Drax own space shuttle.  They are destroyed and the world is saved.

I remember liking this as a kid, probably watched this one the most. I mean, it had lasers and astronauts!!! And it could also be that we had it on a taped VHS and afterwards there was a taped episode of the original Ducktales where Launchpad becomes agent 000. Which I think was the inspiration for making Darkwing Duck after that. I gathered people disliked this one and thought it to gimmicky with trying to be a Star Wars-movie because that was popular. I would see it just like You Only Live Twice, a movie that is fine on its own, but compared to the one before doesn't hold up. Moonraker more so since it basically was the same movie again. And the fact that the only reason the plot unfolds is that Drax promised the Americans a shuttle, but one of his owns have a manufacturing fault so he got to quickly get it back... why not just make a new one and postpone the operation a month or so? Is it really worth it getting the Americans and British looking into his business? 

Drax is also rather interesting, since it feels today as they nailed the industrialist space corporations based in California like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. But that's pretty much the most interesting bit.