Synopsis
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Cast
- Roger MooreJames Bond
- Barbara BachMajor Anya Amasova
- Curd JürgensKarl Stromberg
- Richard KielJaws
- Caroline MunroNaomi
- Walter GotellGeneral Anatol Gogol
- Geoffrey KeenSir Frederick Gray
- Bernard LeeM
- George BakerCaptain Benson
- Michael BillingtonSergei Barsov
- 80
Empire
Roger Moore’s third outing as Bond is undoubtedly his best. - 80
The New Yorker
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.com
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. - 75
ReelViews
For the first time in three films, Roger Moore starts to unearth a personality for Bond. - 60
Variety
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. - 50
The New York Times
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. - 50
Chicago Reader
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. - 50
Rolling Stone
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.