Once again, skip one, love one, skip one, love one... Finally we have a Bond film that shows the agent as being resourceful, intelligent, heroic, filled with physical stamina, and is incredibly sexually restrained: he doesn't sleep with anyone until the very end! There's a nice bit of 'you think you know who the villain is, but — a-ha! — we fooled you!' in this story, and the fact that the actor playing M for years had passed away before filming actually makes the scene in the confessional work better to my mind (sending Q into the field seems more likely than M). The fact 007 is fighting to re-gain control of a coding machine, much like in "From Russia with Love" to an extent, seems far better and the low-tech nature of the thing gets us re-focused on basic, realistic espionage. There's no crazy big laboratory with football field-sized screens showing where things are in the world, there's no totally hot women about to wrestle Bond over the lip of a live volcano filled with lava-eating sharks, there's just Bond, the daughter of two murdered agents, and a couple of potential enemies/allies trying to get to the code machine before anyone else does. Yes, there's a bit of foolishness with motorcycles, skiers, a biathlon competitor, a bobsleigh, and a long jump, but that's as crazy as things get, and there's nary a gadget to be seen (other than the code machine, and the Lotus which merely blows up real good). As far as Roger Moore Bond, this is probably the best. ...granted that's not saying a great deal.

I actually really enjoyed this Bond movie. The story was good, very cool chase scenes, and I really liked the co-op in the ending. Plus the girl with the cross-bow was pretty good as well. Overall this was a fun action packed Bond movie, and I was nicely surprised by it. I'll give For your Eyes Only a 8/10.