For Your Eyes Only
Published August 22, 2015
Film info
- Title For Your Eyes Only
- Director John Glen
- Year 1981
- Run time 2hrs 7m
- Genres Action, Adventure, Thriller
- Tagline No one comes close to James Bond, 007
James Bond is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures in this jam-packed free-for-all of outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. Roger Moore portrays agent 007 with lethal determination in a plot that finds him racing against time to find a stolen device capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines. As bond teams with beautiful Melina Havelock and infiltrates the Greek underworld, the stage is set for nonstop action - including automobile chases, thrilling underwater battles and a cliffhanging assault on a magnificent mountaintop fortress!
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:07 | OMG, ex-wife reference again. “We have all the time in the world.” Bless! |
| 3:05 | Remote control airways is the worst! Worse even than EasyJet. |
| 8:47 | First time we’ve had the singer in the opening credits, I think? |
| 12:48 | Well they’ve ramped up the horror in this one! |
| 24:02 | Love James being snobby about his getaway car. Thought twice about getting in. |
| 28:47 | “Perforate him.” Ouch! |
| 32:10 | The identikit thing is a lot of fun! Never thought of a time that was brand new. |
| 36:53 | Aww, his wife did ice skating. |
| 41:40 | “You don’t tell me what to do.” Except she’s there because she thought he sent a telegram telling her what to do. |
| 52:53 | Kind of the craziest chase scene to date but still, the domino learner skiers was fab. |
| 54:31 | The bobsleigh chase is mindboggling. |
| 57:34 | So far, this film has been very much Attack of the Killer Winter Olympics. |
| 1:03:58 | It is hard to take anybody seriously called Columbo that isn’t the detective. |
| 1:09:58 | Sand buggies look like a lot of fun to drive. |
| 1:14:15 | I could listen to Topol’s monologues all day. |
| 1:17:53 | The spiky mines are such an iconic shape, full of foreboding. |
| 1:27:13 | He literally just said only talk when necessary. No time for quips. |
| 1:29:34 | It’s amazing how tense cutting wires can be. |
| 1:42:43 | It was weird she left her air down there, how could she have known? |
| 2:04:38 | He got a notification on his watch! |
Thoughts
This was a much better outing for Bond after the disaster that was Moonraker. It wasn’t one of the best, but felt very much like your standard 007 adventure. I quite liked that he gradually amassed a team around him, so that the final action sequence was a team effort rather than a solo spy mission. The ice skater was a little intense and scary but Topol was fantastic.
Some of the stunts were fantastic - the bobsleigh sequence in particular was hair-raising, and following the little yellow Beatle down those steep hills also a lot of fun. There isn’t much more to say, as the film didn’t stand out against all the rest of the Bonds particularly, but it was at least a lot more fun than its predecessor. Incredible that we’ve only got two more Roger Moore films left!
Rating: 3 / 5
