Living Daylights

Pros: A non-gadgety Bond. Closest we'll ever see to what Fleming had in mind.
Cons: Some inaccuracies, but nothing to complain about.

Welcome to a curiosity. This is probably one of the best Bonds since the halcyon days of Connery, and yet The Living Daylights wasn't that well recieved when it was released. Compared unfavorably to both Sean Connery and Roger Moore, Timothy...

Pros: Good action and stunts. Fairly interesting plot. Performance by Dalton.
Cons: Some weak characters and villains.

In the 1980s the long running James Bond film series seemed to be running out of steam. Roger Moore retired from his role of Agent 007 following the 1985 release of A View to a Kill. Box office receipts from that film were down substantially from ...

Pros: Well-developed storyline.
Cons: Lacked customary strong villain.

There are two jacket covers for the DVD The Living Daylights. One cover shows James Bond (Timothy Dalton) holding a gun in the midst of what looks like a fire storm will the other cover shows Bond pointing a gun at a lady in a white gown. ...

Pros: Dalton as Bond, three-dimensional Bond girl, romantic chemistry, great action, strong contemporary script with twists
Cons: Lacks a compelling villain

Until I began this series of reviews for James Bond films, I had never paid much attention to which of the films in the series had been commercially successful. I knew which ones I most treasured which was all I really needed to know. Recently, though, ...

Pros: Exciting and thrilling will keep you on the edge of your seat as usual.
Cons: Violence and innuendo of sex starting to cross the line.

Defection and impersonation is the name of the game in this movie. Timothy Dalton finally took over the role as James Bond after refusing several times. This is the first time, Timothy Dalton has played James Bond. The living daylights was made in ...

Pros: Not Campy, Krabbe, Rhys-Davies, climax, good intentions
Cons: Bond, d’Abo, Score, Song, Whitaker, Doesn’t quite work

In Timothy Dalton’s debut as James Bond, Agent 007 is involved in a plot about a defecting KGB general named Koskov (the supremely smarmy Jeroen Krabbe), who talks of a plot to kill British agents, whom he alleges is masterminded by KGB chief General ...

Pros: Timothy Dalton, The mid-air battle over Afghanistan. John Rhys Davies, Operation over Gibraltar
Cons: Looking back on it now, does Bond join up with the Taliban?

"Stuff my orders! If M fires me I'll thank him for it! That girl didn't know one end of a rifle from the other! Whoever she was I must have scared the Living Daylights out of her..." Welcome to the last great James Bond film. 'The Living Dayl ...

Pros: Timothy Dalton, great spy intrigue, complex gritty story, good love story
Cons: weak villains

Any review of "The Living Daylights" is going to need to include a review of the new Bond himself, Timothy Dalton. At the time, Roger Moore was clearly too old for the role and had basically devolved the series into campy comedy/action films...

Pros: Some great thrilling scenes
Cons: Bond Girl In this one not vixen enough

I'll tell you the truth, I was not looking for this particular James Bond movie when I went to the video store. My intentions were to rent the one with Kim Basinger, but I could not find it and I wasn't really excited to see Timothy Dalton again. A...

Pros: Good action
Cons: d'Abo is weak

I love Bond movies, and I watched "Living Daylights" because it was part of my Bond collection gift-set that I received for Christmas.

In this one, Timothy Dalton plays Bond. He turned down the Bond role 16 years before this movie...