Review of For Your Eyes Only (1981) by Simon H — 13 Mar 2008

Moonraker really sank to the bottom of the Bond barrel. Fortunatly For Your Eyes Only brought Bond back to reality and brought a breath off fresh air. The story is fairly simple and easy to understand, as Bon tries to recover a British encryption device from the evil Kristastos (Julian Glover). The movie is not short of excitement and action, as each sequence leads to another, with the best being the car chase and the tense cliff climbing sequences.

The characters are top notch. Topol really brings Columbo to life and you really do believe in his character. Michael Gothard also plays one of the more menacing Bond villains during Roger Moores stint as Bond. Silent throughout the film, really makes you think what he is wondering.

The music, which is this time performed by Bill Conti. Although at first it may not seem to fit in well with the Bond series, the music does actually go very well with the action happening, with a wonderful disco-type version of the 007 theme.

I also feel that this is one of the more violent films of Moores tenure. The intensity and emotion is amazingly felt as Locque smashes into Countess Lisl or killing of Locque by Bond in cold blood.

This is one Bond film which is underestimated and should be viewed by not just Bond fans, but also to any action fan.