For Your Eyes Only (1981)
John Glen
Bond, James Bond: Roger Moore
Arch Rival: Aristotle Kristatos (Julian Glover)
Bond Girl: Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet)

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

The next offering in the long series is For Your Eyes Only. In this section Bond is hired to hunt down a man who was hired to hunt down a man who was hired to hunt down a lost British device! This takes him back to Eastern Europe where he meets the beautiful Melina with her hunter bow, the daughter of the man who was hired to hunt down the device and who is determined to hunt down the man who hunted down her parents.  After warding off a bunch of loonies hired to hunt him down, Bond continues hunting down what he has been hunting for, As Bond is hunting about, he is confronted by Columbo, a gold-smuggler who reveals to Bond that he has been hunting down the wrong person and he is the one being hunted. With the help of Columbo and Melina, Bond finally decides what he has to hunt down and but finds that he has to climb a risky cliff. So do the people whom he is trying to hunt down.

Hands down winner of the worst performance by a Bond girl beating even Jane Seymour of Live And Let Die (1973). Not that the other performances are any good! The plot seems to have been a bit more importance, but the routine is so predictable that nobody cares. Couple of great sequences and a fantastic title song. Technically inferior than its predecessors, For Your Eyes Only seems to be caught between the elegance of the Connery films and the jaw-dropping action scenes of the later films.  As a result, it does not engage your mind or your heart. For your eyes only!