Golly! Opportunistic much? "Star Wars" came out in 1977, as did "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and was followed in 1979 by "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", then in 1980 by "Flash Gordon" and "The Empire Strikes Back". Thus, why would they make "For Your Eyes Only" when they could rush a space-based script for Bond to run around in? Well, here's a damned good example of 'why not'. People often complain that Bond doesn't do anything in "Goldfinger", he just gets carted around the world by the mad Auric Goldfinger. Well, here he 'ups his game' by being carted around the world by, first, his instinct and then, second, a CIA agent, then, lastly, into space through sheer dumb chance (and the CIA agent to fly the ship). Then he shags her, having already done so in Venice. Jaws reappears, and he ends up getting his own girl in the end. Before that, however, he seems to have been trained in "how to survive" by Wile E. Coyote, given the preponderance of preposterous predicaments he seemingly has a ponderous propensity for. Like "The Man with the Golden Gun", this seems to have all the right ingredients, but nothing ever really happens. There's a bunch of really cool special effects and [pew pew] laser guns at the end when the US Marines arrive in a spare shuttle that the Air Force happen to have had set-up and ready to launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base (which is odd as they've never been equipped to handle anything even remotely as big as that). Hugo Drax seems the ideal Evil Villain™ for a Bond film as he, Travis Bickle-like, seems determined to wipe out all the world's filthy people and start afresh with his own little army of breeder rabbits. There's even a black and oriental Amazonian, in case you think he's not being as inclusionary as he ought to. the single biggest plot-hole I can bother to bring-up (because we'd all be dead of old age if they were all covered) is that Bond simply happens upon the space-port lair of the Bad-Guy in the middle of the Brazillian forest pretty much by CHANCE. Prior to this he was avoiding getting caught by Jaws down a river, then left his boat via a hang-glider (so as not to go over a huge set of waterfalls that are actually 1,000 miles from where he was supposed to be in the first place; but whatever), then floats around for a bit and essentially crashes through the forest canopy and somehow doesn't bend himself irrevocably in the process. Then, by the merest chance, he sees a girl walking under what we presume is a bit of the waterfall he just avoided, then he follows her into some Aztec pyramid (and the Aztecs aren't anywhere this side of the Darian Gap, never mind... oh, forget it) and "discovers" this lair of evil filled with fetching young women who happen to be the baby ovens for Hugo's mad, orchid-based plan to re-make the world. Sheesh. Oddly, it's not as bad as "Diamonds are Forever", as at least they're *trying* to do something with a new story-line. What a shame they didn't just faithfully adapt the damned novel.

Not very interesting - too long - doesn't really seem like a Bond film.