"The Living Daylights" was the Bond movie that introduced Timothy Dalton
as 007 and the one that opens on the Rock of Gibraltar. It's not one of
the better Bonds and is serviceable at best. Dalton's gravitas
signalled an attempted return to the early Connery pictures after the
flippancy of the Roger Moore films but he's too po-faced and we
certainly don't warm to him in this film. The Cold War plot, too, was
also already old-hat and the lack of a credible villain doesn't help;
(Andreas Wisniewski's blonde assassin is a piss-poor substitute for
Robert Shaw). The film itself just about gets by on a couple of decent
set-pieces.
Sunday 14 October 2018
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS *
"The Living Daylights" was the Bond movie that introduced Timothy Dalton
as 007 and the one that opens on the Rock of Gibraltar. It's not one of
the better Bonds and is serviceable at best. Dalton's gravitas
signalled an attempted return to the early Connery pictures after the
flippancy of the Roger Moore films but he's too po-faced and we
certainly don't warm to him in this film. The Cold War plot, too, was
also already old-hat and the lack of a credible villain doesn't help;
(Andreas Wisniewski's blonde assassin is a piss-poor substitute for
Robert Shaw). The film itself just about gets by on a couple of decent
set-pieces.
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