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Summary: "...spectacular stunts and action."
Review: In Roger Moore's fifth outing as Bond, 007 must retrieve the coveted ATAC unit before it falls into enemy hands. Superb entry features an excellent performance from Moore, with spectacular stunts and action. But the film has it's faults. The villians are lacklustre, and the women aren't especially sexy, while Carole Bouquet makes for a wonderful heroine. Still, the score, by Bill Conti, is simply awful. Better than most, with a more believable story and script.
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Summary: Moore's best acting but not a good action/adventure movie
Review: This is the most earthbound and "realistic" of Roger Moore's James Bond movies. Because there are less gimicks and special affects, Moore has to carry the movie. And in a complete surprise, Moore is able to do so. He adds new dimension to his version of James Bond. Although Moore is at his best, this is not the best of his Bond movies. Why? It just isn't a very good action/adventure movie. The story is light, the action scenes are poorly done and it doesn't have that epic, majestic look. The story and plot are fairly shallow. The main theme of the story is not enough to carry the picture. There are a number of unrelated subplots added in order to stretch the movie to 2 hours. Some lame excuse is required in order to get Bond in the required gun battle. The action scenes are poorly choreographed. The fight scenes have a terrible flow so that you can't follow them. In the underwater fight, Bond gets trapped by the man in the deep sea suit. You wonder how he will ever get out of it. And then, poof, he just slips away without any explanation. There is some nice scenery in this movie, but there is none of the exotic locations that make the Bond movies so special. Alot of people talk about how good the female lead is as if there has never been a strong female in the earlier Bond movies. Barbara Bach in the Spy Who Loved Me was every bit as good and probably better. Compare this movie to Moonraker. Sure, it is cartoonish, and the acting is bad. But, it has everything a good action/adventure movie should. Great action scenes, fantastic special effects, great villians, good detective work, exotic locations and a complete story that sets the tension and suspense right from the beginning. This is not a bad movie and there are some good parts to it. It is certainly better than anything Moore did after this. But, Moore's The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker are much better Bond movies. Even Live And Let Die is probably a better choice.
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Summary: The best 007 film is perfect in every department.
Review: "For Your Eyes Only" is the perfect Bond film. It's flawless. Every action scene is perfectly and creatively executed, the plot is intriguing and different, and finally things are more energetic here than in the previous few outings.Roger Moore continues to be the smoothest James Bond as he searches for his government's stolen ATAC system, which leads him to cross paths with Melina (Carol Bouquet). Bouquet is the perfect Bond girl, as she is beautiful, self reliant, and intelligent. There search for answers leads them to the Alps and then to Greece, where a few of the series best action scenes are produced. Overall, I can't recommend this movie enough. Every element in the story works just fine, and the movie never feels too long or too short. As for the DVD, it's got a sharp picture, decent sound and some really interesting extra features. The movie is pure Bond, something that the most recent 007 film, The World is Not Enough, is not.
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Summary: Moore serious
Review: I don't think Roger Moore ever missed his marks. He was just really good at playing this character, and he seemed to never fumble for balance "on the tightrope." I think For Your Eyes Only shows this ability at its best. Some of the comic elements Moore loved to add are still here, but he shows a few more serious moments that remind us that Bond kills people for a living. Another aspect I like is the diverse action. Bond is all over the globe, utilizing many of the skills from his bottomless pit of abilities: scuba, skiing, driving (even in a grade-A lemon), and mountain climbing. All handled with equal ability. The Moore era Bond has given us the best of the skiing sequences so far (with the exception of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, my personal favorite). Next to the Moore skiing stunts, the ski episode in The World Is Not Enough was outright lame! I was counting my Juju-bees, trying to get rid of all the black ones. With a fantastic ensemble of actors, FYEO is just good escapist fare, with just the right blend of seriousness to add intensity. What could be more Bond than that?
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Summary: One of the best Bonds!
Review: FYEO is one of the most remarkable 007 adventures of all time.There are many things that make this entry a winner. First of all, the theme music, sung by Sheena Easton, is probably the best song out of all the Bond theme songs.Also, this is the first time we see the perfomer sing in the opening credits.The opening scene where James Bond is trapped in a remote-controled helicopter is good suspence.There are good chase scenes throught the movie.The most memorable ones are the chase in Spain, and the long ( but fun) cat and mouse chases in Cortina.Roger Moore did a good portrayal of 007. Remember this: he was 53! Carole Bouquet was well casted as Melina. I personally think- as a Greek- that her greek accent could have been more perfected.But it dosent matter that much, because most non-greek-speaking people will not notice this flaw in the film. Also, Carole Bouquet' s performance is one of the most memorable as a Bond girl; she is very unique and displays a certain charisma that other Bond girls do not have.Topol could have passed for a Greek!He' s so Greek in the film that it's hard to beleive that he' s not Greek in real life! Althought the film does not have the technological appeal of the previous Moore films, such as THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and MOONRAKER, the film is memorable because it reminds you of an early 007 film, closer in spirit to Ian Fleming' s works.Also the film is more in touch with psychology; revenge and hatred are 2 topics the film emphasizes on. Not to be missed!
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Summary: One of Bond's Best
Review: I watched this movie for Carole Bouquet, and she did not disappoint. In this movie her secret agent father is assassinated and she is bent on revenge. (Two years later in "Buffet Froid" her father, an account was killed and she was bent on revenge then, too.) Roger Moore as 007 is united with her in their common cause, as he attempts to retreive valuable computer data from the bottom of the sea. 007 looks old in this movie, which adds to the unreality of the whole situation. I liked the contrast between Swiss and Greek sceneries in this film. As far as Bond movies go, this is one of the best.
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Summary: Fun 1980's Bond - mix of serious and camp
Review: After having Bond in laserguns and spaceships, anything would seem down to earth. In "For Your Eyes Only", the unsavory world of double-agents and good-ole-fashioned espionage harkens back to the Bond of Fleming's novels, while Roger Moore brings enough fun to remind us we're watching a Bond movie. In "Eyes Only", the British lose one of their spyships, a fishing trawler brimming with sophisticated electronics, to an old WWII (or even WWI?) floating mine. Because the ship is also equipped (for reasons never made all that clear) with the A.T.A.C. system, its wreckage becomes a superpower-espionage lodestone. The major powers actually stay back, choosing instead to enlist "innocents", smugglers but also legitimate divers. The murder of a submarine archeologist offers the British Secret Service into who's behind the nefarious plans to salvage the ATAC. Once recovered, ATAC would give its owners early warning of a British nuclear attack, or even command her majesty's subs to attack England. Complicating things are the competing smugglers (Julian Glover and Chaim Topol) who find themselves on different sides of the law, freelance killers and the annoying wanne-be-Bond Babe (Lynn Holly Johnson). Not quite as gadget heavy as previous films, "Eyes Only" retains plenty of fun and catch-lines. If for anything else, this is the Bond flick that finally put an end to SPECTRE, in an opening teaser that's probably more memorable than the rest of the film.
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Summary: Roger Moore's best Bond
Review: An intelligent and suspenseful follow-up to the daffy Moonraker. Refreshingly light on gadgets and silly jokes, FYEO is a Bond movie in the grand tradition. More like Goldfinger and FRWL; the only two Bond movies that are better. Its hard to believe John Glen directed his best Bond movie first but there it is. He directed five in all; the last three Moores and both Timothy Daltons. FYEO and The Living Daylights are the only two that should have seen daylight. 007, played excellently by Roger Moore in his 5th Bond movie, finds himself playing cat and mouse with Kristatos, an unsavory Greek smuggler, as they wrestle over a piece of Cold War hardware called the ATAK. Julian Glover does a fine job as the manipulative and sophisticated villian. Carole Bouquet is stunning as well as a competent actress. She is the Bond Girl but, unlike many Bond movies, she is more than window dressing. Her character, Melina Havelock, as her own beef with Kristatos. Beautifully set in Northern Italy and Greece, FYEO features several extremely well-done action scenes everywhere from the ski slopes to a sunken ship to a mountaintop fortress. The interplay between Bond and the young, amorous ice skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson) is clever and humorous in a tongue-in-cheek way that goes over much better than the obvious sight gags and obnoxious comments in Moore's most recent efforts. Alas, Moore's Bond movies never found a consistent happy medium between the silly and the serious. LALD and TMWTGG were both serious and silly in turns. They are both good but uneven 007 movies. TSWLM is pretty silly (but excellent). Moonraker is pretty silly and downright dreadful in parts, especially the ending. Moore's weakest. FYEO is Moore's most serious and best. Octopussy and AVTAK, Moore's last two efforts after FYEO, were both pretty silly and stale. Quite a mixed bag. His two best performances sandwich his worst. Go figure.
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Summary: The Best 80's Bond!
Review: This is my pick for Roger Moore's best Bond film. His best performance of Bond is found in this movie, and he seems to have a more human side to this role as he has a fond relationship with the Bond girl of the film, Milena (Carole Bouquet), who suffers from the murdering of her parents. The film also has one of the better Bond plots, where it is a race to recover the ATAC(Automated Targeting Attack Communicator) after a British ship is destroyed. Julian Glover also has one of the better villian performances. The teaser for the film is perhaps my favorite of all the Bonds, where he finally gets revenge against an old arch-nemesis... John Glen, who directed all the 80's Bonds, has a great start here, as he is my favorite Bond director. Too bad he doesn't direct the Bond films anymore.
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Summary: Without a doubt-the best Moore Bond
Review: After the mess that was Moonraker, the 007 series had nowhere to go but up, but who knew it would get this high? Although Roger Moore's Bond era is best known for witty remarks and lots of over-the-top gadgetry, this film proved that Moore could deliver an old-style espionage thriller, and in fact, one of the best Bonds of all time. A British submarine code machine is somewhere at the bottom of the Albanian coast, and it's a race between 007 and Soviet-backed agents to find it. The execution is near-perfect, hints of Bond's tougher days (such as the trip to Tracy's tombstone and Bond tossing his hat in Monepenny's office) let the viewer know that the REAL 007 is back, while traditional Moore elements like the Lotus and the drunk Italian man are blended perfectly. Everybody, from Carole Bouquet to Julian Glover to the late Cassandra Harris (future Bond Pierce Brosnan's wife) to the terrific Topol pulls their own weight, and then some. Although the rest of the 80s films sometimes make a Bond fan cringe, this one is a jewel. It was definately worth it to suffer through Moonraker; this film was the payoff.
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