For Your Eyes Only (1981) 7/10 - Well since watching them in order isn't really possible for me anymore, I decided to jump around. So why not watch this? It jives pretty well with OHMSS, so it seemed like a reasonable choice. I'd only seen it once before, quite awhile ago, and didn't really care much for it. But, recently, I've seen a few places rank it as one of the top Bond films. So I gave my disc a spin. And it's pretty good. Better than I remember. Bond feels like a real person again, albeit one with an absurd amount of talents. But he's doing some good old spying, and that's good. There're some great action scenes too, and a fairly suspenseful cliff climb. Julian Glover plays a good villain, and Topol plays a good ally. The plot's a little run-of-the-mill, though it does get interesting as it goes along. The score is, well... I don't think Bill Conti was a good choice. The Bibi character is really annoying (I get that she's supposed to be, but either way she's a complete waste of time), and the actress playing Havelock gives a truly awful performance. Which is quite a shame, because her character is pretty interesting. Unfortunately, she ends up being annoying as well, and her relationship with Bond is totally undeveloped. Just a missed opportunity. Anyway, I liked it.
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