Saturday, June 2, 2018

MOVIE REVIEW: James Bond: The Living Daylights

RELEASE DATE: July 31st 1987

RUN TIME: 2 Hours 10 Min

MPAA RATING: PG-13

FAMILY MOVIE SCALE: 5

IMDB SCALE: 7.5


DIRECTOR: John Glen

MAIN CAST: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Michael G Wilson


IMDB Story Line
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.

REVIEW
I thought that Timothy Dalton made a great James Bond and really liked his approach to being 007. In my opinion this is where the 007 role started to transition to the 007 we have now in Daniel Craig. Starting with Living Daylights I believe we saw Bond in more believable dangerous situations, it was a bit more intense and less flirting behavior but the leading lady still had a major role to play. I always thought that before Living Day lights there was more of a SY-FY edge. However one of my favorite James Bond films with Pierce Bronsnan crossed that line a major way in "Die Another Day". However the danger was more harsh and believable even in that one. Living Daylights started a new trend in Bond movies but still held on to all the standards of the movies before with the carefree lifestyle and kill anyone when necessary and the gadgets did not disappoint.

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