The Living Daylights
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Movie Reviews of The Living Daylights
Movie Review: Dalton brings back the old Bond edginess
Summary: 5 Stars
Initially skeptical with this new actor, I didn't know what to expect from Timothy Dalton. Suffice it to say that I could rest easy: Dalton makes an impressive Bond debut in "The Living Daylights", making him the best actor in the role since Sean Connery. Dalton takes the role very seriously as the old edgy, dangerous Bond returns after the campy, pun-filled outings of Roger Moore, who sometimes appeared as if he were afraid to get his hands dirty.
The plotting is classic Bond too as the secret agent delves into the defection of a KGB general who may have unsavory connections to a ruthless military arms dealer, played with boorish menace by Joe Don Baker. The gadgetry is cool but kept in check as the film is Bond all the way, engaging in great action sequences...and taking time to romance the latest Bond lovely (a beautiful blond Russian cellist).
And "Daylights" is climaxed by one of the best white-knucklers of the Bond films as Bond fights a baddy while holding on for dear life from a cargo net dangling from the back of a plane.
Spectacular action, scenery and execution---one of the best Bonds in the series!
Movie Review: Promising Start Never Realized
Summary: 4 Stars
Dalton takes a decidedly straight approach and defines his own Bond. The script is fairly ambitious and Bond does quite a bit of travelling. Alas, Dalton doesn't get alot of help from the Bondbabe or the Villians. Joe Don Baker's is the weakest villian in the entire series. A toy soldier. Maryam D'abo is a terrible Bondgirl. She's cute but her character is this sweet innocent wide eyed girl who just wants to be respected in the morning. Some pretty good action lightens the load. Who knows, maybe Dalton would have rebounded from the awful License to Kill if the series hadn't stalled. We'll never know.Movie Review: Very very weak
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm stunned by the outpouring of positive reviews on this page. Am I the only one to notice that this is a terrible film???
Dalton simply doesn't work as James Bond. I'm sure he's a good actor, but he isn't right for this role. He lacks charisma, has no screen presence, and his approach to playing Bond with no sense of humour whatsoever makes his performance very dull to watch. I respect that he was trying to redefine the role after the Roger Moore overdid the humourous aspects of the character, but Dalton gives us a Bond with no panache or sense of enjoyment in his job as a superspy. Come on, audiences don't watch Bond films for weighty dramatic gravitas -- this series is about sexy, action-packed escapism! Dalton fails as Bond completely. (And he's too short.)
Other than a mis-cast Bond, the movie does show some signs of life. The plot is pretty good, with the Russian defection and counter-intelligence maneouvering, etc., the action sequences deliver, and the exotic locales are everything we would expect from the Bond franchise. The villains are a little generic, however, and the Bond girl is little more than an attractively attired block of wood. Would it have killed the script-writers or the actress to give this character a personality? Oh well, at least she gets lots of practice at doing her doe-eyed look and following Bond around like a puppy.
Movie Review: The most realistic Bond with the most incredible car.
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my favorite Bond movies. Timothy Dalton does a fantastic job as Bond and is probably the closest to Ian Fleming's original characterization. The villains are somewhat underdeveloped, but the underlying Soviet-Afghan conflict helps construct a multifaceted plot. Russians allied with Bond, renegade Russians against Bond, Mudjaheddin (sorry I can't spell) fighting all the Russians, American arms dealers who are indifferent to Bond per say but are evading the CIA which is also allied with Bond. Not to mention that cellist who shows up, gets rescued in an unbelievable car chase with all the usual tanks, missiles, and lasers, and inevitably falls in love with Bond. A classic Bond.Movie Review: The First Dalton Outing
Summary: 5 Stars
My favorite bond in a fun movie. Heavy Euro and Middle Eastern scenes in fact none were set in America, which is a switch from the previous Bonds by Roger Moore. Good flck, although the villians are softer than previous and perhaps since. One of the vilians here appeared again in one of the later Bond movies with Pearce Brosnan. See if you can guess who!