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7. It's Too Silly For Its Own Good

There are certainly those who love the sillier Bond movies - especially those from the Roger Moore era - but this is a film just too daft for its own good.

It leaps breathlessly from one location and set-piece to the next with a weird sense of desperation, and whether Bond takes a trip to the casino, rides a moon buggy across the Nevada desert or ultimately has to stop Blofeld's space laser, it just feels like a messy mish-mash of ideas without much coherent connective tissue.

The Moore films, sometimes offputting though they were, generally strung their outrageousness together with a semi-cohesive narrative throughline. Here, though, ridiculous stuff just happens, and it quickly becomes more exhausting, and perhaps even more irritating, than genuinely fun.