Ranking Every James Bond Film - From Worst To Best

18. For Your Eyes Only

The opening of For Your Eyes Only has to be the most ridiculous of any Bond pre-credits sequence: after years of intense battle with Blofeld, Bond simply hooks the wheelchair-bound villain to a helicopter, has a bit of fun with him in the air, and then drops him down a huge industrial chimney. It's an odd way to dispatch of the series' main antagonist, and it sets Eyes Only up to be one of the oddest Bond films in the canon. On the one hand, the film has some gorgeous vistas and throwaway sight gags, on the other, an insipid, completely unremarkable Bond villain - not to mention a Citroen as the main Bond car. There's Bond girl Carole Bouquet as a melancholy, actually quite layered character, but then there's Bibi, a stunning ice-skating prodigy who Bond nearly sleeps with despite her being about seventeen. There's the great underwater ruins scene but then the pretty dull end assault on the mountain. In many ways, For Your Eyes Only is the quintessential Moore Bond film: promising, splattered with moments, but finally pretty forgettable.