11 Things You Learn Rewatching A View To A Kill

8. The Plot Is Utter Nonsense

Even for the standards of the Bond franchise, A View to a Kill's plot feels especially low-effort and almost purposefully convoluted. Villain Max Zorin's (Christopher Walken) scheme revolves around him destroying Silicon Valley in order to hold a monopoly in the microchip industry.

One of the main issues is the flabbergasting amount of time devoted to a subplot in which the microchips are implanted within horses to trigger their adrenaline and give the jockeys a competitive edge. Just...why?

It's a weird and quirky B-plot that isn't especially entertaining and drags on for an unreasonably long time, underlining a movie that's fresh out of interesting and even basically fun narrative ideas.