Review of For Your Eyes Only (1981) by Jack O — 10 Sep 2018

For Your Eyes Only is a film that really had it's ups and downs for the audience as they watch Roger Moore as James Bond but he's going to be old as I start with A View to a Kill. And if you think The Spy Who Loved Me has ended by putting "James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only.

", you can think again because it's completely false. The film opens with a silly opening where James is in the churchyard and then he went inside the helicopter and the helicopter was controlled by a bald baddie in the wheelchair and then James stops the controlled helicopter and now he controls it and makes a bald man in the wheelchair fall into a industrial chimney.

And with that ridiculous opening out of the way, something good is happening and that is the opening credits and because of this, Sheena Easton sings "For Your Eyes Only" in the background and she even appears in the opening.

She even appears in the opening credits as a music video and I really love this song so much. Roger Moore is back again as James Bond and he's in good in his early 50's. Carole Bouquet is Melina Havelock who will do anything to get revenge on the ATAC's whereabouts who murdered her parents.

Aristotle Kristatos played Julian Glover will later be notice as a villain planning to expand his fortune by selling the ATAC to the KGB after he hired Gonzales to kill Melina's parents. And then Bibi played by Lynn-Holly Johnson who is the daughter of Kristatos who is training as a ice skater and later asks Bond to be her girlfriend but he turned her down because he's old enough to be her dad.

Get it? One of the biggest complaints is that M wasn't in the film and at first I didn't know that. I only watched it once a years back and then I watched it four times recently. But then when you really think about it.

Bernard Lee died of stomach cancer. So they have to make it look like that M is on leave and then one day, someone will replace Bernard Lee. For Your Eyes Only will intrigue the fans of James Bond and it did to me and I really enjoyed it and the theme song by Sheena Easton is also a pleasure and the action scenes are the same as all the others bond films but the opening sequence takes away the seriousness along with the ending where the parrot talking on the phone making the secret service and Q thinking that James Bond is crazy.

Although the humour doesn't do it too much despite it's sometimes silly. I'll be back if you care to hear my thoughts on 007 again.