Brief
synopsis (a view to
A View To A Kill, you might say):
Max Zorin (played to the hilt of cool by Christopher Walken) seeks to corner the market on silicon chips, and therefore control the computer industry, by destroying Silicon Valley. He hires seismologists, geologists, and evil henchmen galore, and plans to trigger an earthquake which will trigger a flood, which will in turn make real estate prices in Silly Valley even sillier.
James Bond, played for the last time by Roger Moore, foils the plot with a heroic assist from former evil henchwoman May Day (a snarling Grace Jones). He prevents Zorin's escape by dangling from a mooring rope (no pun intended) on the getaway blimp; when Zorin tries to ram Bond into the Golden Gate Bridge, Bond quickly ties the blimp to the suspension bridge. (This is known as suspension of disbelief.)
Evil is foiled, good prevails, 007 gets laid, and a classic James Bond actor has his last hurrah. Not bad for what Leonard Maltin called "one of the weakest" in the series.