For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Rating: 70%
Bond film #12 and the 5th one wi- oh screw it, you get the drill: For Your Eyes Only.

Plot: A British spy boat that contains an Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator is sunk by a mine, so Bond is sent to find where it is and collect it before the Soviets do. Meanwhile, a marine archaeologist and his wife are killed for trying to locate the ship and his daughter Melina swears revenge against him. This complicates things for Bond as she start to kill his leads to the sunken ship.

This has a fair share of issues, but I think this one's the second best of Moore's films. This particular Bond film I noticed has a few aspects that have been used before from some of the other Bond films like having a ski chase and trying to retrieve a important item. But this film still manages to make those moments enjoyable with what they do differently with those certain aspects. Also Melina managed to be a decent Bond girl because of how she is deadly and has a certain personal goal that is interesting unlike some of the other Bond girls. Other then that, it has some decent action and a fairly enjoyable climax. But again, it has a good amount of issues. While enjoyable, the story is one that isn't that particularly big and doesn't have the most menacing villain for Bond to come across. Also it does contain some attempted humor that is thankfully minor and not all slapstick like some of the other Bond films, but is still not all that great. Plus we do get Bibi Dahl who is...kind of a Bond girl...I don't know, I wouldn't call her that but everyone else does so there. Anyway, she wasn't there a lot but when she was, she wasn't all that great - mainly because for me, it was really weird that a girl that young was trying to seduce Bond who is played by a guy who... is kind of starting to get old. Plus while some seem to praise the beginning, I thought it to be really dumb as far as who Bond was fighting in that scene and how it turned out.

And that's my review for For Your Eyes Only. It's not the biggest or the most well done Bond film, but it gives us a Bond girl that is a little more interesting then some of the others we've seen, had some decent action and an okay climax that makes it just a nice film, and yet the second best I've seen from Moore.