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Summary: The name is Bored........Very Bored!
Review: Let me start by saying that I am a die hard Bond fan, especially Connery and Moore. After the brilliance of "The Spy who Loved Me" and "Moonraker", one would expect another masterpiece. Instead, It's "B-Movie" Bond at his finest. If you can overlook the bad acting, lack of plot, lack of continuity, zero character development, and disco soundtrack, you may find something interesting about this film. Definite "Mystery Science Theater" material. The goofy celebrity look-alike henchman and choppy dialogue is classic. A Farce! For completionists only!
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Summary: A Return To "Russia"
Review: This one is curiously out of place in the era of comic book Bond adventures that began with the highly entertaining and tremendously successful Diamonds Are Forever in 1971, peaked in 1977 with the spectacular The Spy Who Loved Me and ended with the dreadful A View To A Kill in 1985. Made in 1981 and following the childish Moonraker, the film returns Bond to the realistic stylings of 1963's From Russia With Love and throws in some 80's action to boot. This one succeeds where On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the only previous attempt to return to serious spying, failed: Moore proves, for once and unlike George Lazenby, that he can actually act; the movie incorporates the faster pacing of Goldfinger and DAF; the villain, played by Julian Glover, is perfectly cast this time and the villain's plot is not just treated realistically, it is realistic. In fact it's the most grounded plot(FRWL included) of the entire series. The characters are realistically approached too and the interplay between all of them is very interesting. While it may be unfair to call this Moore's best Bond film, as that title deservedly goes to TSWLM, this certainly represents his most admirable.
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Summary: For us the viewer, A great Bond adventure
Review: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, can almost be called Roger Moores own DR. NO. The resulting product is a very mellow and fun Bond outing. Action scenes and stunts are terrific without being ludicrous, gadgets and toys are kept down but are still fun and around to help 007 when he needs them, and the story is pretty good too, (anything though would be good after the mind numbing wreck of MOONRAKER.) Bond (Moore, best job he's done after SPY WHO LOVED ME) has to track down and find a powerful submarine controlling computer that sank to the bottom of the ocean before terrorists can get to it. At the same time a woman named Melina Havelock is out for revenge on those who killed her father, the inventor of the computer system. Bond needs to keep her out of harms way, at the same time work with her to find the computer and track down the terrorist head. Only low points are at the very begining, the character Blofeld is unneeded and has no place in this movie other than to help plan the opening stunt with a radio controlled helicopter. The other is Sheena Easton's opening song "For Your Eyes Only." It isn't bad, but Bond movies have opened with much better music-(Nobody Does it Better, Goldeneye and Live and Let Die are prime examples of better songs). If your're up for a good quality Bond adventure that tones down the more hokey elements in favor of a better or at least more believeable adventure this is it.
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Summary: One Of The Best Bond Films
Review: After MOONRAKER's excesses, it was a wise decision to bring Bond back to earth, and back to basics with FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. FYEO features one of the best casts of any of the Bond films, including standout performances from Topol (playing one of the most likeable rogues in all of the Bond films), Julian Glover, and one of the best (and most beautiful) Bond women of all in Carole Bouquet. Lynn-Holly Johnson IS a little annoying as a spoiled young olympic hopeful, but the character is SUPPOSED to be annoying, so she actually was a bit of inspired casting. The story brings Bond back to the style of the films of the 60's, as Bond once again squares off with the Soviets in a race to recover a sensitive piece of computer equipment. Roger Moore gives his best performance as Bond in FYEO, as we finally see him show some toughness as well as his suave sophistication. Humor is present, but not so much as to distract from the film. The pre-credits sequence is a fun bit of tongue-in-cheek action, but a little out of sync with the rest of the movie (although the opening with Bond placing flowers on his wife's grave is touching). The special features on this DVD are (as usual with a Bond Special Edition) outstanding. Multiple trailers, documentaries, audio commentary from Director John Glen (probably the best Bond Director!) and Executive Producer Michael G. Wilson & menbers of the crew, radio commercials, and more, make this one of the most complete DVD packages around. Not to be missed! If you are a James Bond fan, or just like good Action-Adventure movies you really should add FYEO to your DVD collection.
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Summary: For Your Eyes Only
Review: Even if you've seen FYEO on video many times (as I have), the DVD is sure to provide many hours of entertainment. There are two outstanding running commentaries from production staff that can be played as secondary audio tracks throughout the film, and it's interesting to see in the "behind the scenes" interviews part of the DVD what Lynn-Holly Johnson looks like 20 years after she appeared in the film. There are so many spectacular stunts in the film that it's easy for one to lose appreciation of them all; learning about just how tough they all were makes the DVD worthwhile.
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Summary: Moore is awesome
Review: The 3rd best Bond movie. Moore is good, so is the girl, the villain, Topol as Bond's ally, the locations, and the plot. The only thing bad about is that the henchmen leave a lot to be desired.
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Summary: What you have heard is very true
Review: Although Roger Moore is my favorite Bond, I will admit that his films are probably the most dubious of the series. Still, I do not think that he deserves the unfair criticism he always gets, and I especially do not believe that FYEO deserved the recent review it got, and that is why I am writing . Let's just say that the review I'm referring to thought the film was "lying."I'll admit that most of what he says is true. Holly's Johnson's character is not only unnecessary but annoying, and the disco soundtrack, which is the worst part of the film, really dates FYEO. But the opening sequence, INANE! I was in awe the entire time. How they ever got that done, I don't know. Yes, most of the scenes are taken from other movies, but the stunts are still spectacular. If they were original, would they be good then? The scenes underwater are among the most suspenseful in the series. And what about the locales? The beautiful locations, from Italy to Albania to England. If you don't like the action, then at least you can enjoy "visiting" these countries (let's hope that you like Europe). And Bond himself. It was fun seeing a more vulnerable 007, who really gets banged up throughout the film. That's why the ending WAS exciting, because there was some doubt as to whether he would make it to the top. Again, most of Moore's films are pretty silly, but the films, in fact, all movies, in one way or another, reflect the time at which they were made. Anything went in the seventies, including giants with steel teeth. Moore did what he could with role, so people, give the man a break. As for "For Your Eyes Only," it is flawed (hence, the four stars instead of five), but it is still an exciting thriller in the grandest 007 tradition. For your pleasure, "This Bond is for you."
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Summary: For Your Eyes Only
Review: This Bond movie returned to the days of Ian Fleming.Kristatos makes an okay villain while Topol is great as Columbo.Carol Bouqet is good as Melina Havelock and Roger Moore is good too.Not too many good gadgets though.The car is not used.The ski chase was very good.Some other good action is a waterfont raid on a warehouse, a car chase, and an attack on Kristatos' mountaintop fortress.The keelhauling scene was well-filmed.The underwater scenes were beautiful.Sheena Easton's title song is okay as is Bill Conti's score.The Greek settings was nice.The plot was good.However,Richard Maibaum's script is weak.For Your Eyes Only is probably Moore's fifth best film, beaten by The Spy who Loved Me, Live and Let Die, A View To a Kill, and Octopussy.I do recommend For Your Eyes Only.
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Summary: It's Lies, All Lies...
Review: Somebody has got to set the record straight in regard to this embarrassing piece of junk. First of all, let me inform you that I am a fan of the Bond franchise. I own all of the films, even this turkey. But over the years the Bond organization has been trying to somewhat repair the damage done to the series by the entire dung heap of Roger Moore Bond movies by saying that FYEO was an "attempt to return to the suspense and believability of the early films". Nothing could be further from the truth. You want evidence? Observe: Not only the most horrifyingly inane opening sequence in the Bond bunch ("Mr. Bond, please! I'll buy you a delicatessen! ), but probably the worst 15-20 minutes ever committed to celluloid. It gets worse. Lynne Holly Johnson, who makes Denise Richards seem like a casting coup. A DISCO SOUNDTRACK! I'M NOT KIDDING! An entire film comprised almost solely of scenes from other Bond films. The "climax", so mind-bogglingly boring that you're absolutely sure that there's even more of this dreck yet to be perpetrated on the screen. There's just no way it could end here..yet, somehow, you'll find yourself elated with the notion that it might. Yes, I too was hoping for plot, suspense and character development in this film. But wishing doesn't make it true. It's lies, all lies, and this wasn't any better than the rest of the Moore films. I don't even think that it was Moore's fault. It was just the 70's, when "The Dukes of Hazzard" ruled the prime time airwaves, and these poor Brits were trying in vain to guage the American marketplace. Thank God we finally got Brosnan...and someone who could write!
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Probably Roger Moore's best movie.This and The Spy who Loved Me had some incredible action sequences like the waterfront raid on the warehouse and the ski chase and the battle on Kristatsos's fortress. In The Spy who Loved Me there was the underwater fight and the battle on the Liparus and the pre-title ski chase.Though The Spy who Loved Me had better action For Your Eyes Only was better overall.
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