For Your Eyes Only
United Artists | Release Date: June 26, 1981 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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90
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
For Your Eyes Only bears not the slightest resemblance to the Ian Fleming novel of the same title, but emerges as one of the most thoroughly enjoyable of the 12 Bond pix [to date] despite fact that many of the usual ingredients in the successful 007 formula are missing. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
For Your Eyes Only is a solid adventure, although it could have been better. There's enough action to hold those with even a short attention span, and Roger Moore's deft charm hasn't yet begun to wear thin. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
The success of this picture (perhaps Moore's best in the Bond series) can be attributed to the marvelous direction of Glen, who had previously worked as a second-unit director on earlier Bond movies. Not surprisingly, the stunts are some of the best in the series. Read full review
70
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Most of the time, though, For Your Eyes Only is a slick entertainment...not the spaced-out fun that "Moonraker" was, but its tone is consistently comic even when the material is not. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Glen's style...goes for the measured and elegant over the flashy and excessive. Read full review
70
NewsweekJack Kroll
For Your Eyes Only is one giant second-unit film, an anthology of action episodes held together by the thinnest of plot lines. Most of these episodes are terrific in their exhilaratingly absurd energy: Steven Spielberg himself would not sneer at them. [29 June 1981, p.72]
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