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For Your Eyes Only [DVD] [1981]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5039036039147
Label : MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer : MGM Entertainment
Publisher : MGM Entertainment
Release date : 2008-10-20
Title : For Your Eyes Only [DVD] [1981]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 1981-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 121
Studio : MGM Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1981

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review by: date: 2009-06-28 rating:

Premium Bond No. 7
Roger Moore gives possibly his most impressive movie performance as a by-now getting-on-a-bit Bond in this involving caper, an attempt to bring the series back down to earth after the overblown mess of Moonraker. Countering Moore's natural urbanity and preference for comedy with plenty of scenes in which he has to flex his acting muscles (I love the scene in which he kicks Michael Gothard's car off the cliff), this isn't a particularly exciting or important Bond film, but it is still well above average for the series.

review by: L.J.F. date: 2008-12-26 rating:

Moore at his best
Roger Moore gives his best performance as bond here in one of the best bond films ever. A more human film than the 2 that went before with Roger giving a more restraint performance as bond. The action and stunts are very good with Moore (who is never credited as so) doing some of the stunts himself and Carol Bouquet is a very impressive bond girl and lookout for a young Pierce Brosnan as an extra. All in all a brilliant entry in the bond series although Bernard Lee was missed who died around the time the film was released.

review by: date: 2008-11-12 rating:

One of the best Bond films.
One of Roger Moores best Bond movies and without a doubt his best performance. br / br /5 stars. Buy it now!

review by: date: 2008-11-03 rating:

For Your Eyes Only
"For Your Eyes Only" marks James Bond's return to down-to-earth espionage after comic book adventures "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker". But I must say I find those more entertaining. "For Your Eyes Only" has some very good action scenes, most notably a long car chase, but the story feels like a rather uninspired rehash of "Thunderball" and the villain is forgettable as are the Bond girls (although Lynn Holly Johnson may be remembered for being annoying). br / br /Some think it's Moore's best Bond movie, but in my opinion, "For Your Eyes Only" is one of the weakest Bond movies

review by: date: 2008-11-03 rating:

More or less Roger's finest hour
For Your Eyes Only is showing its age a bit now. At the time a hugely welcome return to basics after the leaden FX spectacle of Moonraker (the second remake of You Only Live Twice in a row for the series), it still holds up as one of the best of Roger Moore's Bonds, but its faults are much more apparent than they once were. Among them is the tendency to undercut everything with unfunny little jokes (a scoreboard keeping count of thugs Bond knocks out, Bond giving a bemused royal wave to pursuing thugs, and a horrendous cameo from a Maggie Thatcher lookalike in the end), some flat studio work (no disguising the fact that the mountaintop Greek monastery is just a Pinewood set), a dated Bill Conti score and a comic relief nympho nymphet Lynn Holly Johnson constantly throwing herself at a disinterested Bond. Luckily, the pluses more than compensate - a stronger plot than usual for the Moore efforts, at least one cold-blooded murder, and a very welcome absence of gadgets until the postscript that ensures that Bond has to extricate himself with his own wits in some pretty good setpieces. Best among them is a mountaineering sequence where he uses his bootlaces - not steel bootlaces, just common bootlaces - to save himself in an old mountaineers trick. br / br /Incidentally, with Blofeld still sporting the neck brace he wore at the end of OHMSS, and with the film beginning at Tracey Bond's graveside it's tempting to think of the pre-title sequence as a way of making amends for the jokey way Bond's nemesis was disposed of in Diamonds Are Forever were the following sequence not the proud possessor of the most surreal line in the entire Bond series, the infamous "I'll buy you a delicatessen - in stainless steel!" So, while this may be one of the Moore serious of Roge's outings, it's not exactly Bergman territory. br / br /Although the original DVD wasn't the most fully loaded disc on the market, there's less of an upgrade in terms of extras than meets the eye on this repackaged 2-disc 'ultimate edition.' Alongside Roger Moore's new audio commentary there are two deleted scenes, one of them a welcome addition that brings a bit of tension to Bond and Melina's relationship as she chastises him over his nocturnal activities, but the three new featurettes are little more than fairly raw behind the scenes footage while the multi-angle alternate versions of Bond's cold-blooded killing of Loque are particularly badly laid out. The menu also lists the 3 slight variations on the theatrical trailer carried over from the previous edition as TV spots! br /

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