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| ACTORS: | Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | John Glen (II) |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 31 July, 1987 |
| MANUFACTURER: | MGM/UA Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616853943 |
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Customer Reviews of The Living Daylights
Classic Bond thriller but has faults After years of enduring Roger Moore as OO7 comes new life to the series with Timothy Dalton's debut in The Living Daylights.The plot is sophisticated yet muddled and confusing and there are some scenes you just don't understand. Screenplay is weak, and film is overlong. This is partly made up for with a terrific climax at a Russian air base, a thrilling hand duel between Bond and Necros while hanging out of a plane and an entertaining car chase through Ausrtian highways where Bond beats out his pursuers with the help of his Aston Martin. Gadgets include lasers, rockets, machine guns, and skis. Dalton gives a serious, controlled performance as Bond, which helps the film greatly. However, Necros is too bland as a henchman, and D'Abo is dull as a Bond girl. Kuscov is spirited as head villain, yet is not memorable or menacing. Whitaker is also somewhat spirited yet has the same problem as Kuscov. Watch Diamonds Are Forever if you want to see a witty, spirited, and classic villain in Charles Gray's portrayal of Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Love that pre-title where Bond uncovers foul play during a British Secret Service training course on Gibraltar. Stunts are great, especially the car ones and where OO3 goes of the cliff. A-ha's title song is good, and Barry delivers a heart racing score, which is also his last one. However, settings are drab and dull. Overall, good yet Dalton's second and last shot at playing OO7, Licence To Kill, is better overall and more entertaing.
The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights is my favorite Bond film. In this adventure, James Bond becomes the pawn in a Russian defector's plot and finds himself in the middle of an international arms and drug smuggling ring.
In the opening sequence, we see Bond parachuting, dive tackling a fleeing jeep (then fighting with a KGB assassin in the jeep), and finishing him off in a mid-air explosion over the water.
Bond is on assignment to aid and protect a Russian defector (a KGB agent, who ultimately double crosses Bond). Bond meets up with the KGB agent's girlfriend traveling from Czechoslovakia, through Austria, to Morocco, and Afghanistan. And in the end, of course, the good guy wins. Add to this some romance (with just one girl, for a change), probably the best music score, great action, beautiful cinematography, and you've got a great James Bond story.
TLD has all the right ingredients and chemistry between actors. But what makes this story line believable is a credit to a superb performance on the part of Timothy Dalton. This guy is believable and looks like a professional killer.
TLD was filmed in Morocco, Gibraltar, Austria, England, USA, EuroDisney, and Pinewood Studios.
The Living Daylights is a sleeper, probably because T. Dalton is not as well known as S. Connery, R. Moore, or P. Brosnan. TLD is definitely a crowd pleaser - I highly recommend it!
Timothy Dalton as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
As a child of the 70's and 80's,The Roger Moore-era movies defined the tone of the entire James Bond 007 series.When Moore left the series after A View To A Kill,Timothy Dalton took over and put Bond in a direction that was familier to readers of Ian Fleming's novels, yet confusing to moivegoers.
The Living Daylights (1987)brought an end to the tongue and cheek tone of Moore's movies.Instead,Dalton becomes the 007 of the original novels,Tough,ruthless ,yet still refined. Dalton read the original novels and redefined the roll.
Unfortunately,movie goers were a bit uneasy with a James Bond who didn't crack cheesy one liners,jump into bed with an average of three women per movie and was harder edged than any other Bond on the screen.
The movie itself is a fine, yet slow-paced, involving a latter-day cold war defection of a Soviet soldier, only to be turn into a plot involving the elimination of British spies.Great scenes include an escape from the iron curtain in an updated Aston Marten, and an airplane cargo fight in mid air.
Dalton only portrayed Bond one more time (License to Kill) before the series was in limbo for six years (until Goldeneye with Pierce Brosnan in 1995).Since then, Dalton's portrayal of Bond has been praised in it's approach to bring Bond back to where it all began.