A View To A Kill‘s climax involving Bond, May Day and the bomb felt like a strangely misguided choice, particularly because of how much focus was placed on Roger Moore’s physical ability at 58 years of age. You’d think Moore had earned a more drama-driven swan song to showcase his charm rather than test his physical limits. Yet the filmmakers instead put him through a physically demanding sequence that glaringly put his age on display and made Bond look vulnerable.

Don’t get me wrong, I can accept Bond being pushed physically, but watching him struggle with the mine cart isn’t exactly the image I want burned into my memory of Roger Moore’s final mission. Rather than putting Moore’s physical ability on display they should’ve had a more ingenious solution to the bomb problem.

In another questionable choice, they also designated a slipping handbrake as the reason for May Day’s self sacrifice, which felt almost as contrived as the prospect of Zorin physically grabbing Stacey Sutton flying by in his zeppelin. But the hits didn’t even stop there, especially when they *really* wanted the audience to know that the 58 year old Moore “still had it” with an insane, physically taxing for even a 20 year-old, Golden Gate Bridge highwire act.

Ultimately, what should have been a graceful farewell of a final Bond movie for Roger Moore instead became an awkward showcase of how much physical punishment a 58-year-old could endure.