A View to a Kill (song) weeks. In the US, it entered the charts at No. 45, and on 13 July it reached number one on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. It remains the only Bond theme with this chart performance. In November 2014, the James Bond site MI6 revealed a previously unreleased 7:30 extended remixed 12" version of the song and it has since been mentioned on Duran Duran's website which suggests that it might be the real deal. MI6 claim that Steve Thompson created the 12" mix in Paris with the band, although John Taylor says "I don't remember hearing it at the
A View to a Kill dwell on the blood and the brains spewing all over the place". Pauline Kael of "The New Yorker" said "The James Bond series has had its bummers, but nothing before in the class of "A View to a Kill". You go to a Bond picture expecting some style or, at least, some flash, some lift; you don't expect the dumb police-car crashes you get here. You do see some ingenious daredevil feats, but they're crowded together and, the way they're set up, they don't give you the irresponsible, giddy tingle you're hoping for." Kael also singled out the dispirited direction