Tony Perkins gets aboard a service ship heading to a North Sea drilling platform. Demands a bunch of money. Shoots a crew member early just to show he means business.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher calls in anti-Bond Roger Moore. He hates women, likes cats and does needlepoint. He also moves like he's got a deteriorating hip.
Perkins makes a terrible bad guy. He's about as menacing as an angry car salesman. His henchmen are about as scary as a bad night of bowling. Plus, at least two of them wear comically bad eyewear.
The set decoration is cheaper than a Magnum P. I. episode. The camera work is similarly TV level. And the bad weather comes and goes depending on whether the plot requires it. Even the soundtrack is super-cheesy.
Naturally Hollywood did it much better later in the decade with Alan Rickman and Bruce Willis.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher calls in anti-Bond Roger Moore. He hates women, likes cats and does needlepoint. He also moves like he's got a deteriorating hip.
Perkins makes a terrible bad guy. He's about as menacing as an angry car salesman. His henchmen are about as scary as a bad night of bowling. Plus, at least two of them wear comically bad eyewear.
The set decoration is cheaper than a Magnum P. I. episode. The camera work is similarly TV level. And the bad weather comes and goes depending on whether the plot requires it. Even the soundtrack is super-cheesy.
Naturally Hollywood did it much better later in the decade with Alan Rickman and Bruce Willis.