For Your Eyes Only
This was the only Bond Movie that I didn’t get to watch on my first-time binge a few months ago in preparation for No Time to Die since it’s the only pre-Craig movie that isn’t on the streaming service I watch for some reason. I figured since I took a sick day from work I might as well cough up the 4 bucks YouTube charges for it, no pun intended.
Roger Moore’s Bond was already a very middle of the line one for me, with most of his movies sitting in the “they’re okay” camp imo, and unfortunately this one didn’t do much to help that. It’s far from the worst Bond movie (that title goes to The Man with the Golden Gun), but it doesn’t even come close to the highs of the series. The pacing isn’t great, the villain is incredibly weak, and a good 70% of the action amounts to “see how many ways we can kill people while playing winter Olympic sports.”
Also, the cold opening has literally nothing to do with the rest of the film, as nice as it was to see blofeld again for whatever reason.
6.5/10