For Your Eyes Only opens with Bond triumphing over Blofeld. Cartoon villain dispatched, we get Sheena Easton appearing herself while singing the Theme, one of the best in the series. It's a good start.
What follows is a well crafted story involving the murder of Melina Havelock's (Caroline Bouquet) parents and Bond teaming up with her to try to locate the ATAC device. There's a great car chase involving a Citroen 2CV. I like Bouquet but it's a shame that she had to be dubbed..
Following the death of Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn's Q gets an enhanced role here and Locque (Michael Gothard) is identified as the man they want to find.
In the Italian Alps there is a slightly disturbing scene where the 16-year old Bibi (Lynn-Holly Johnson) attempts to seduce Bond, being played by 54 year old Roger Moore. It's not essential to the plot. And lies somewhere between unbelievable and creepy.
Anyway, we soon have some great ski/motorbike chases though it was during one of these that a stuntman was killed. A small gripe is that the score is often annoying.
This is a proper film, only reverting to the old jokiness right at the end where we see John Wells and Janet Brown as Dennis and Margaret Thatcher.
What follows is a well crafted story involving the murder of Melina Havelock's (Caroline Bouquet) parents and Bond teaming up with her to try to locate the ATAC device. There's a great car chase involving a Citroen 2CV. I like Bouquet but it's a shame that she had to be dubbed..
Following the death of Bernard Lee (M), Desmond Llewelyn's Q gets an enhanced role here and Locque (Michael Gothard) is identified as the man they want to find.
In the Italian Alps there is a slightly disturbing scene where the 16-year old Bibi (Lynn-Holly Johnson) attempts to seduce Bond, being played by 54 year old Roger Moore. It's not essential to the plot. And lies somewhere between unbelievable and creepy.
Anyway, we soon have some great ski/motorbike chases though it was during one of these that a stuntman was killed. A small gripe is that the score is often annoying.
This is a proper film, only reverting to the old jokiness right at the end where we see John Wells and Janet Brown as Dennis and Margaret Thatcher.