The Living Daylights

1987

2h 10m

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6.5/10

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After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.

Directors

John Glen

Writers

Michael G. Wilson(screenplay by)

Richard Maibaum(screenplay by)

Ian Fleming(novel by)

Stars

Timothy Dalton

Maryam d'Abo

Joe Don Baker

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James Bond

Kara Milovy

Brad Whitaker

Kamran Shah

General Leonid Pushkin

Jeroen Krabbé

General Georgi Koskov

Necros

Saunders

Minister of Defence

General Anatol Gogol

Miss Moneypenny

Felix Leiter

Rubavitch

Col. Feyador

Rosika Miklos

Linda (as Kell Tyler)

Directors

John Glen

Writers

Michael G. Wilson(screenplay by)

Richard Maibaum(screenplay by)

Ian Fleming(novel by)

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I don't understand all the hate on Dalton as 007, I actually thought he was a decent Bond, I thought he brought back some of the cold blooded assassin that personified the first of the Connery Era films. And I think he was a much needed change of pace away from Moore's silliness. However, I think some of the hate comes from the change of pace away from the silliness. You get used to things and a lot of people got used to Moore. But, then again, I was 7 when The Living Daylights came out, this was the first 007 movie I REMEMBER seeing in the theaters, and there is that special place in my heart for the cold blooded assassin style 007. And The Living Daylights is one of the last to have all the 007 tropes in it, the smoking, the harem, the stuff that defined 007 films before they started to move away from them in the 90s. This marks a return to the Dr. No, From Russia with Love, era of Bond, a move away from the silliness and... ... it has one of the best 007 cars, at least in my view. The Living Daylights still has the Aston Martin that I want... and, let's face it, he works with what is really the Taliban before the Taliban became the enemy of the west, when they were still fighting the Russians, and when the west was still taking their side in Afghanistan before the Soviets withdrew. So you kind of get a history lesson that really only people alive in the 80s remember.

GenerationofSwine11 Jan, 2023