Bond Retrospective: "The Living Daylights"
Released: 1987
Actor: Timothy Dalton
Villain: Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker)
Henchman: General Koskov (Jeroen Krabbe), Necrosis
Allies: Felix Leiter, Kamran Shah, Pushkin
Bond Girl: Kara Milovy (Maryam d'Abo)
First Appearance: Dalton as Bond. Caroline Bliss as Moneypenny.
Frequent reappearance: Gogol yet again!
Precredits sequence: A 00 agent training mission goes wrong as multiple agents die, only to be stopped by Bond.
Plot: Bond helps a fellow agent bring a supposed KGB defector, Koskov, over to the UK, but Bond first has to stop a KGB sniper from killing him. When he sees the sniper is a girl, Kara, he hesitates and misses the shot. Koskov escapes, and states he defected because Pushkin in Russia is trying to kill US and UK agents and set them against each other. The KGB eventually comes and frees Koskov, but in reality, it wasn't the KGB but Necros. Whitaker, an arms dealer, is trying to have Pushkin killed, and is aiming to trade diamonds for weapons for opium, more or less. Along the way, Bond finds himself in Afghanistan, helping the local resistance against the Russians, destroying the opium, and in the end, stopping Whitaker and Koskov, and saving Kara from punishment as a defector.
Thoughts: A much more serious tone than the recent Moore outings, TLD has a plot-centered story that admittedly makes sense when watching, but in hindsight becomes a bit foggy. A lot of stuff happens in this film, making it perhaps one of the most involved but interesting Bond plot lines. Dalton is a good Bond, playing the character much more serious. Even the one-liners sound serious. Apparently Dalton tried to play it closer to Fleming's style. Overall, a very good film, much better than I remembered it, and especially after the silliness of AVTAK.
Actor: Timothy Dalton
Villain: Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker)
Henchman: General Koskov (Jeroen Krabbe), Necrosis
Allies: Felix Leiter, Kamran Shah, Pushkin
Bond Girl: Kara Milovy (Maryam d'Abo)
First Appearance: Dalton as Bond. Caroline Bliss as Moneypenny.
Frequent reappearance: Gogol yet again!
Precredits sequence: A 00 agent training mission goes wrong as multiple agents die, only to be stopped by Bond.
Plot: Bond helps a fellow agent bring a supposed KGB defector, Koskov, over to the UK, but Bond first has to stop a KGB sniper from killing him. When he sees the sniper is a girl, Kara, he hesitates and misses the shot. Koskov escapes, and states he defected because Pushkin in Russia is trying to kill US and UK agents and set them against each other. The KGB eventually comes and frees Koskov, but in reality, it wasn't the KGB but Necros. Whitaker, an arms dealer, is trying to have Pushkin killed, and is aiming to trade diamonds for weapons for opium, more or less. Along the way, Bond finds himself in Afghanistan, helping the local resistance against the Russians, destroying the opium, and in the end, stopping Whitaker and Koskov, and saving Kara from punishment as a defector.
Thoughts: A much more serious tone than the recent Moore outings, TLD has a plot-centered story that admittedly makes sense when watching, but in hindsight becomes a bit foggy. A lot of stuff happens in this film, making it perhaps one of the most involved but interesting Bond plot lines. Dalton is a good Bond, playing the character much more serious. Even the one-liners sound serious. Apparently Dalton tried to play it closer to Fleming's style. Overall, a very good film, much better than I remembered it, and especially after the silliness of AVTAK.
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