The Spy Who Loved Me
United Artists | Release Date: August 3, 1977 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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80
EmpireIan Freer
Roger Moore’s third outing as Bond is undoubtedly his best. Read full review
80
The New YorkerPauline Kael
A glitter sci-fi adventure fantasy that balances the indestructible James Bond with an indestructible cartoon adversary, Jaws (Richard Kiel), who is a great evil windup toy. This is the best of the Bonds starring the self-effacing Roger Moore.
75
RogerEbert.comGerardo Valero
What The Spy Who Loved Me lacks when it comes to establishing the atmosphere of danger present in some the best Bond movies it makes up in spades in the creation of one apparently-impossible situation for the protagonist after the other, the kind that other entries would have been lucky to include a single example. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
For the first time in three films, Roger Moore starts to unearth a personality for Bond. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter Debruge
Triple X posed an ideal opportunity for the series to rectify its dismissive treatment of women until this point, putting a lady on equal footing with Bond. To its credit, the film does feature a bit of screwball badinage between the two (a clunky bit about female drivers, unfortunately), but it has yet to introduce a single female character who doesn’t want to sleep with our hero. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
The film moves along at a serviceable clip, but it seems half an hour too long, thanks to the obligatory shoot-'em-up conclusion, filmed on the largest sound-stage in the world, but nevertheless the dullest sequence here. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
It's the submarine barn and Richard Kiel's steel-toothed Jaws you remember from this one; the ostensible hero is just a fleshy blur. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Gadgets abound, especially a Lotus sports car that transforms into a submarine. But the scene-stealer is 7'2" Richard Kiel as Jaws, a shark-eating man with steel teeth. Read full review
50
NewsweekMaureen Orth
After the opening sequence, much of the action in The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth James Bond screen epic and the third starring Roger Moore as Bond, is somewhat downhill. [08 Aug 1977, p.77]
40
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
As the Bond series moves deeper into the 1970s, the emphasis moves away from the inventive scripts that made the best Sean Connery films fine examples of the spy genre and toward the kind of feats of daring and visual spectacle that abound in The Spy Who Loved Me. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonStaff (Not Credited)
The film has its moments - Kiel's indestructible heavy racks up a good score - but the rest is desperately weak. Read full review
40
Washington PostGary Arnold
While it never sags as alarmingly as its immediate predecessor, Spy, the 10th film in the series, is at best a tolerable disappointment. Read full review
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