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A British spy ship accidentally fishes out a mine and goes to the bottom. Unfortunately it contains a secret device that sends orders to British nuclear missile submarines.

 

 

One of the very few Bond films in which the Soviets are explicitly bad guys (the others tend to involve them as allies against a common evil). Even here, they are more respectful competitors; after all, if you hear of a chance to get a key item that could give you a strategic advantage over your official enemies, you'd have to be a utter idiot not to make a play for it. As it is, General Gogol not only survives uninjured in the attempt, but stops Bond from being shot when he destroys the device at the end of the film and concedes the loss without a fuss.

 

 

 

The dark tone to the film (by far the darkest for Moore) oddly comes from Timothy Dalton. When he was first courted by Cubby Broccoli he was asked what kind of Bond he would play. He briefed Cubby on a much darker, edgier Bond grounded in reality, and this script was born, making a note of killing off the main series villain before the opening credits to make way for the new direction. By the time the new script was ready, Moore had decided to do another one, and Dalton that he was too young to play Bond. so with the script ready & waiting, Moore slipped into this moody and morally ambiguous Bond, something we didn't see again until [[Timothy Dalton]] took the role.

* A [[Bond Girl]] with a crossbow.

* The Bill Conti-composed disco-like score.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Melina is perhaps the forerunner of future, more proactive, Bond Girls.

* [[The Archer]]: Melina's [[Weapon of Choice]] is a crossbow.

* [[Bad Habits]]: Q dresses as an Orthodox priest to provide information to Bond.

* [[Bald of Evil]]: The unnamed Blofeld in the opening sequence.

* [[Batman Cold Open]]: The opening sequence has nothing to do with the actual plot, but damn does it look awesome.

** And the opening [[Fridge Brilliance|does play]] into a theme within the movie: do we have a right to avenge our lost loved ones?

* [[Between My Legs]]: Famously on the movie's poster.

* [[Climbing Climax]]

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Bond visits his wife's grave in the opening, which was intended as a way to ease a new actor into the role, before Moore decided to come back.

* [[Cool Car]]: Subverted; Bond's usual gadget-laden car blows up when the bad guys try to break into it, forcing him and Melina to go through the resulting car chase in her beat-up Citroën.

* [[Cutting the Electronic Leash]]

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Especially in the Moore era, and it wouldn't be the last attempt at this.

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Lynn-Holly Johnson, 22 when the movie came out, plays the underaged (16, according to some sources) Bibi Dahl. Contrast Carole Bouquet, only a year older, whose character seems to be in her late twenties.

* [[Disposable Pilot]]: In [[The Teaser]], the pilot of the helicopter Bond is in gets electrocuted mid-flight.

* [[The Dragon]]: Emile Leopold Locque for Kristatos and Eric Kriegler for General Gogol.

* [[The Eighties]]: Already in full swing, on the very first 80s Bond, no less. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrptJTswNg ESPECIALLY the theme song].

* [[Fille Fatale]]: Oh, Bibi.

* [[Fingertip Drug Analysis]]

* [[Friendly Enemy]]: General Gogol [[Graceful Loser|just shrugs]] after Bond destroys the [[MacGuffin]] he flew in from Moscow to purchase.

*** That wasn't the reason though (there wouldn't have been too many witnesses around for that, anyway). Gogol was just being a good sport, as he didn't ''need'' to have Bond killed for anything.

* [[Hot Amazon]]: Melina.

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: [[Informed Ability|Kriegler is a biathlon champion but is unable to shoot Bond every time.]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Kristatos slapping Bibi.

** A minor but amusing one; Locque is paying off Cuban assassin Hector Gonzales with a [[Briefcase Full of Money]]. Gonzales takes out a wad of cash and throws it to one of his [[Paid Harem]]. When Gonzales gets killed, Locque just picks up the briefcase and leaves, with his henchman snatching the wad from the girl as he walks past.

* [[MacGuffin]]: ATAC

* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]:

* [[McLeaned]]: Blofeld in the opening sequence.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Bibi Dahl? Come on...

* [[No More for Me]]: A [[Running Gag]] character - appeared in the two previous films - after a skier slides through his table.

* [[Only I Can Kill Him]]: Melina does it with Gonzales, but fails with Kristatos.

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: [[Trope Namers|trope namer]], sort of.

'''Bond''': "So's your accent, Countess." }}

* [[Paid Harem]]: Gonzales has a number of bikini-clad women lounging around his pool.

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: A few worn during the scenes in the Alps, including a coat Melina wears.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Locque.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Melina, hunting down Gonzalez and whoever hired him.

* [[Sea Mine]]: One is used to sink the British spy trawler, turns out, [[Chekhov's Gun|that wasn't the only one]] [[The Dragon]] had.

* [[Show Some Leg]]: The villains provide one for Bond as he's infiltrating Gonzales hangout, and a member of his [[Paid Harem]] starts smooching with one of the guards, enabling Bond to sneak past.

* [[Steal the Surroundings]]: When a spy ship goes missing, it turns out that to steal machinery onboard worth millions on the black market, the bad guys sunk the ship, killing everyone on board, so they could retrieve the equipment later by submarine.

* [[Take That]]: Blofeld's appearance was a swipe at Kevin McClory.

* [[Two-Person Pool Party]]: Although it takes place in the sea.

* [[Underwater Ruins]]

 

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