For Your Eyes Only (DVD)

For Your Eyes Only (1981) is the first James Bond film of the 1980's. It sees a promotion for director John Glen who had worked as an editor and 2nd unit director on previous films. After the sci-fi and fantasy from Moonraker, Glen was given the task of bringing our favourite super spy back to Earth with a focus on character progression, and a more gritty and realistic feel to the films. Cubby Broccoli was keen to get back to Ian Fleming's original blueprint for Bond and John Glen was seen as the ideal person to get 80's Bond under way. The story revolves around an ATAC system (Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator). It lies on a sunken British spy ship, the ...  Read the complete review

For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth film in the James Bond series and was originally released in 1981. After the fantastical 'Moonraker', the series was brought back down to earth with this film which includes characters from the Ian Fleming short stories 'Four Your Eyes Only' and 'Risico' and eschews the space-age gadgetry of previous Roger Moore entries. The plot of the film revolves around the sinking of the spy ship St Georges, which was equipped with an ATAC missile communication device. James Bond is sent on the trail of this device and teams up with Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet), out for revenge after witnessing the murder of her marine archaelogist father Sir ...  Read the complete review

The Bond series need to come back to earth again after Moonraker and it certainly did with this movie. This in my opinion was one of Roger Moore's finest hour’s. He gives a very accomplished performance. Carole Bouqet is a simply stunning Bond girl , whose parents, in the film, were murdered by villain Aris Kristatos. He is smooth, in fact a little too smooth as he needed to be a little bit more menacing to be a commanding villain. The plot is great, but the script could have been a little better. ...  Read the complete review

"For Your Eyes Only", the 12th Bond film, in which Roger Moore stars as agent 007, is a golden nugget. The pre-credits scene is superb, and the two villains are introduced. Roger Moore puts on one of his best performances in this episode, playing down the jokes which are occasionally a little bit over the top. Bond is assigned the mission of reaquiring a missing top secret communications device used for submarines called an ATAC, in typical bond style, he does not reaquire it, he destroys it - but only so the KGB don't get hold of it. A young girl is involved in the preceedings and Bond is "forced" to allow her to tag ...  Read the complete review

After the departure of Bond being launched into space in Moonraker, the producers of the Bond films felt that it was time for Bond to go back to his roots and with that the character was bought straight back down to Earth. For Your Eyes Only was released in the summer of 1981, the film itself is a decent thriller with the plot based on a more credible and also far more believable scenario than other films, there is no world domination or secret base for Bond to deal with at all. This is just a plain and simple espionage thriller and more akin to a Fleming novel. The plot involves the freak destruction by means of a sea mine of the ship the St Georges off the ...  Read the complete review