Review of For Your Eyes Only (1981) by Kieran F — 09 Mar 2011

I have to say that this is one of Moores BEST. And a lot better then his last one,Moonraker(which was still good but a little to un bondish), I will admit though that this was kinnda his LAST good one. Octopussy was...okay. But view to a kill was almost criminal.

The story is well worked about a woman out for revenge for the man that murdered her parents because they where actually looking for a lost Encryption device for the British but to her knowledge where just 'looking for shells' .Bond is sent to find a device called the ATAC and along his way discovers Melina who is out for revenge. It's a simple story(basically) but it works and IMO I think that's what makes some of the best bonds: Simple straight forward stories. And I also liked the music it is ACTUALLY quite enjoyable..its very 80's but is still relatively enjoyable. I also enjoyed the characters and how the idea of revenge and all was thrown in.

All in all for me this is one of my FAVORITE bonds with Roger Moore and I always have a hard time finding something wrong with it. I guess if I was to nit pick I would have to say that Melena,all though hot, was kind of a bland bond girl she was basically just...hot there was nothing else about her. and also with that well the theme song just sucked(Wich was disappointing considering how catch the other music was). But I can't ever really find anything about the actual story and movie itself that I didn't enjoy and can always find myself going back again,again,again and AGAIN to watch it.

I also wanna go out and say that Moore always was good at acting bond but when it came to wardrobe he never quite did good. Unless he was in a suit he always looked like he was just wearing clothes that the crew told him to wear(now I know that's basically the truth but at the same time some of the bonds could wear other clothes and sell them in a manor that made you think that they actually would wear them IE Connery,Dalton & Craig)and that was about it.