For Your Eyes Only (1981)

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I think it was on the Team Deakins podcast that someone made a comment about how this kind of mid-period James Bond became a kind of ridiculous world tour: where haven't we set a car chase, yet? (Here Greece, Spain...)

More of a serious spy story after the science fiction of Moonraker, the MacGuffin here is an encryption device; the enemy, a criminal in the employ of the KGB. Like the Lazenby entry On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the last attempted pivot from camp to grit, it lacks a lot of the series' absurd charm. Compared to the standards of action choreography de rigueur 40 years later it doesn't much hold up.

Competent but utterly unmemorable.

- Sam - 2022-01-19 04:37:27