The Living Daylights
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Movie Reviews of The Living Daylights
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!Movie Review: Good film but not one of my favorites
Summary: 4 Stars
Dalton did a great job in his short time as Bond. They didn't give him a lot to work with in this one, but he still did a good job.Movie Review: Dalton's Debut Is Impressive
Summary: 5 Stars
The first thing that struck me about this film is that Timothy Dalton could act and he took the part very seriously. I found THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS to be one of the better James Bond films. I think it is the best since ON HER MAJESTY's SECRET SERVICE. I really liked Timothy Dalton as James Bond, the James Bond he gave us in this film (THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS). He was not the hard edged civil servant but more of a thinking man's blunt instrument as he demonstrated his reluctance to get the job done "their" way as opposed to "his" way.
John Barry delivered his last 007 score and it is one of his best. I also enjoyed a-ha's rich and lyrical theme song played over Maurice Binder's main titles, which are very reflective. This was also the last Bond film made during the actual cold war. We see a much more intelligent British agent discern that the KGB is not made up of a bunch of hoodlums but instead it is actually headed by an equally intelligent counterpart to "M" and the like. The dark yet richly colored photography and locations bring back much of the feel of the earlier Bond films.
Timothy Dalton deserved to be around much longer as James Bond based on his work in this film.
Movie Review: Timothy Dalton brings back the danger in Bond...
Summary: 4 Stars
Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to portray James Bond... Having replaced Roger Moore, Dalton's appearance on the scene inspired a sharp reversal of policy in the approach to Bond's films... Moore's comfort with witty lines, light comedic situations, and fantasy plots was replaced by a hard-edged reality and some violent episodes that were better suited to Dalton's more realistic approach to the character of 007...
Dalton has the perfect Bond qualities... He's good looking, athletic, commanding... He's believable as a British secret agent with a license to kill, who can bed any lady he wants... Dalton's debut in "The Living Daylights" is astonishing... His first close-up on the Rock of Gibraltar is riveting as he spies the death of a fellow agent... His arrival via parachute onto the yacht of a playgirl is equally perfect... There is no hesitation in his performance...
But unfortunately, the problem with "The Living Daylights" is its lack of strong villains... General Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbé) is too nice to be dangerous (he hugs practically everyone he meets), and Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker) is denied enough screen time to develop any true malice... He's a gunrunner who likes to play with army toys...
The only truly villainous character in the film is Necros, played effectively by Andreas Wisniewski... But he's not on-screen long enough to make any true impact, and even he has his sympathetic moments... The plot is another throwaway because just as you're starting to figure out why Koskov and Whitaker are partners, the plot switches to a big drug deal in Afghanistan...
Maryam D'Abo is the perfect mate--an elegant, well-mannered, soulful woman dedicated to her musical craft, who is drawn into the adventure of a lifetime...
Romance, a key element missing from many of the Roger Moore James Bond movies, is present in "The Living Daylights" in large doses as a definite on-screen chemistry develops between Bond and Milovy... It's helped, of course, by the fact that both characters spend a great deal of time together on-screen... Not since "Thunderball," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," and "The Spy Who Loved Me" has Bond been given the special time to develop a believable relationship with a woman...
Desmond LLewellyn, who hadn't missed a Bond film since "Live and Let Die," returned as Q, this time supplying Bond with an updated Aston Martin V8 with 'optional extras fitted.'
Caroline Bliss, an actress who had come to prominence playing Lady Diana Spencer in ABC's 1982 drama "Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story," stepped into Lois Maxwell's shoes as a younger, doe-eyed Miss Moneypenny...