Bond Retrospective: "For Your Eyes Only"
Released: 1981
Actor: Roger Moore
Villain: Kristatos (Julian Glover)
Henchman: Locque
Allies: Colombo (Topol)
Bond Girl: Melina (Carole Bouquet)
First Appearance: none worth reporting
Precredits sequence: Bye bye, Blofeld! While visiting his late wife's grave, a plane comes for Bond, but is remote controlled by a quippy, never-directly-named Blofeld. Blofeld's plan fails as Bond regains control of the plane and throws Blofeld down a chimney, seemingly to his doom.
Plot: The ATAC, a submarine transmitter, is lost along with a US sub. Someone involved with the ATAC is killed on a boat with his wife, as his daughter, Melina, watches. Bond is sent to find the assassin, but is met by the daughter. The assassin dies, and Bond escapes. Bond sees a payment exchange for the murder, however, and using Q's facial identity software, tracks the guy to Italy, site of a former Winter Olympics. The octagon-glassed guy, Locque, is said to be working for the dove, a smuggler. Bond connects with Kristatos, a key informant against the dove, aka Colombo. Unfortunately, he's captured by the dove, only to find that the dove is the good guy here, and Kristatos is setting him up. Bond and Melina retrieve the ATAC from the downed sub, but Kristatos captures it. Bond, Melina, and Colombo head to the drop off point, where Kristatos plans to sell the ATAC to the Russians, and stops him. Colombo kills him, the Russians leave empty handed, and in a recent Bond tradition, M tries to reach him only to find him playing games as he makes love to someone. This time, he has a parrot talk to Margaret Thatcher. We're promised a return in Octopussy.
Thoughts: The camp is mostly gone in this more serious Moore installment. And it does the series good. No Pepper, no slightly goofy henchman. It feels very real, and the double cross twist in the middle was cool. Melina is also a bit of a headstrong Bond girl, which was nice. And the plot was a medium level severity, no stopping huge missiles or anything. A good change of pace for Moore.
Actor: Roger Moore
Villain: Kristatos (Julian Glover)
Henchman: Locque
Allies: Colombo (Topol)
Bond Girl: Melina (Carole Bouquet)
First Appearance: none worth reporting
Precredits sequence: Bye bye, Blofeld! While visiting his late wife's grave, a plane comes for Bond, but is remote controlled by a quippy, never-directly-named Blofeld. Blofeld's plan fails as Bond regains control of the plane and throws Blofeld down a chimney, seemingly to his doom.
Plot: The ATAC, a submarine transmitter, is lost along with a US sub. Someone involved with the ATAC is killed on a boat with his wife, as his daughter, Melina, watches. Bond is sent to find the assassin, but is met by the daughter. The assassin dies, and Bond escapes. Bond sees a payment exchange for the murder, however, and using Q's facial identity software, tracks the guy to Italy, site of a former Winter Olympics. The octagon-glassed guy, Locque, is said to be working for the dove, a smuggler. Bond connects with Kristatos, a key informant against the dove, aka Colombo. Unfortunately, he's captured by the dove, only to find that the dove is the good guy here, and Kristatos is setting him up. Bond and Melina retrieve the ATAC from the downed sub, but Kristatos captures it. Bond, Melina, and Colombo head to the drop off point, where Kristatos plans to sell the ATAC to the Russians, and stops him. Colombo kills him, the Russians leave empty handed, and in a recent Bond tradition, M tries to reach him only to find him playing games as he makes love to someone. This time, he has a parrot talk to Margaret Thatcher. We're promised a return in Octopussy.
Thoughts: The camp is mostly gone in this more serious Moore installment. And it does the series good. No Pepper, no slightly goofy henchman. It feels very real, and the double cross twist in the middle was cool. Melina is also a bit of a headstrong Bond girl, which was nice. And the plot was a medium level severity, no stopping huge missiles or anything. A good change of pace for Moore.
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