For Your Eyes Only

 

Snow and water, must be one of the good Bonds.

12th movie and we start off at the cemetery with Tracy Bonds grave. Used to watch this movie and eating some licorice candy as a kid. 007 gets called in to London and a helicopter arrives, but as he flies in it is hijacked by a man in a wheelchair and a neck bracer with a white cat in his lap. Obviously a reference to Blofeld. After getting in the front of the helicopter and taking over the controls the music pumps up and Bond picks up Blofeld and drops him in a smoke stack. Awesome beginning and then the title sequence with the song For Your Eyes Only. I really like this song, probably one of the better Bond-ballads. 

In the mediterranean a British spy ship is blown up by a mine and the computer that gives orders to the British Polaris fleet isn't self-destructed. Moscow gets the news and contact a specialist in Greece. Afterwards a woman arrives to her parents research boat, but the parents are killed by her pilot since they where tasked by the Secret Service to try to locate the sunken ship and get the computer. Bond is called in and sent after the killer in Spain. Arriving he is quickly captured, but is able to escape as the woman from before kills her parents murderer. They escape and Bond goes to London. There he research the one paying the assassin and that leads him to an olympic village in Italy where his contact introduces him to Kristatos, a greek smuggler that pinpoints a man named Columbo as the man behind the assassination. Meanwhile he avoids several murder attempts from an East German athlete, a hockey team and some bikers.

Back in Greece Bond tries to get info on Columbo by his mistress, but she is killed by the same person paying the assassin. Bond meanwhile is saved by Columbo who reveals that Kristatos is the man he really is looking for.

Look at this face, does this not look like a trustworthy guy?

They attack an opium fabric and kills the man who was Kristatos delivery man. Afterwards Bond meets up with the girl from before and locate the ship to get up the computer (or whatever it is). Intense action underwater and as they emerge Kristatos have taken their ship and prepares to keelhaul them or whatever the term for dragging someone in water. They escape and track Kristatos to a mountain monestary and together with Columbo and three of his men they scale the mountain and get the better of Kristatos, but not before the KGB arrives. The only option is destroying the computer so Bond throws it of the mountain. The Soviets just laughs and leave... somehow I have a hard time seeing that option. But they did.

The computer thing gets some From Russia With Love-vibes with the Lektor, but it works. Not world shattering since it basically only effects Britain as I get it.  Bernard Lee as M doesn't appear anymore. I really like the music. No fun gadgets though. Overall still a good movie, would probably put this in the top 3 with Thunderball and The Spy Who Loved Me. This one had the title A View to a Kill... which will cause some problem in the near future. Took me a long time getting that Kristatos actor was Julian Glover who was both in Star Wars and Indiana Jones... where he also played a villain who posed as a good guy, and that movie even had Sean Connery!