Fresh
Christopher Wood's script takes the characters exactly where they always go in a James Bond pic and the only question is whether the stunts and gadgets will live up to expectations. They do.
Variety Staff, Variety
Moonraker
Where all the other Bonds end… this one begins!
1979 · 2h 6m · PG
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Lewis Gilbert
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Moonraker
Overview
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
59%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Broccoli just keeps piling on the goodies: lush Ken Adam sets, gadgetry and gams galore, super stunts and effects.
Frank Rich, TIME Magazine
Fresh
Lewis Gilbert directed, but the real auteur of the series is production designer Ken Adam, whose spectacular chrome and plastic sets define Bond's world and technological ethic.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Moonraker is a movie by gadgeteers, for gadgeteers, about gadgeteers. Our age may be losing its faith in technology, but James Bond sure hasn't.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
It's one of the most buoyant Bond films of all.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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