The Living Daylights (1987) movie review

Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo and Jeroen Krabbe in the 18th bond movie

Due to a copyright claim, I cannot use the song "The Living Daylgihts" by A-Ha to open the review, which is pretty silly all things considered, as a review constitutes fair use. Nevertheless, I have replaced that part of the audio with "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" by The John Barry Orchestra

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[polygruntler]

Interesting fact. This is the same guy who does the voices for the MacDonald's training videos. I'd like to hear his review of the "hotmopping" video.

[NecroVMX]

@polygruntler Interesting fact: You're retarded.

[MrHedvicek]

3:46 Those are positively no Czechoslovak uniforms (watch?v=MlLolxORlOg&feature=r­elated) and the Czechoslovakian army had never been using the AK - 47 (AKM).

[NecroVMX]

@MrHedvicek no one cares

[wotan20]

I never understood why Timothy Dalton was so heavily criticised and disliked at the time. I think he was a good actor and a breath of fresh air after Roger Moore's uncomforably silky and -shall I say?-unmanly character.

[NecroVMX]

I think it has to be partly due to by 1987, a lot of people had grown up on the roger moore bond, and this was something radically different from what they were used to. I started with this film, so i love it.

[desotowrong]

This is actually one of my all time favorites in the entire series. Timothy Dalton was a perfect Bond and the next movie was great as well, too bad he didn't do more.

[Krazy80s]

@TheGuyThatsAwesome

The reviewer made an error here. The pre-credit sequence was definitely connected to the rest of the movie. What you mentioned was linked throughout the movie.

[TheAeroAvatar]

It's too bad things with Dalton's contract went to shit. From what I hear, all the legal rambling that took place over the making of The Property of a Lady among so many other things in the six years between 1989 and 1995 really grated at the man and he quit partially because he said enough was enough for him. As much as I absolutely love Brosnan's GoldenEye, I would not have minded a third Dalton movie. I rewatched License to Kill recently, and like you said, it's still pretty damn good.

[SuperNezzy]

John Barry's music is iconic, not crap!

[LovingScrubbies]

And some of the best Bond music.

[SlayerDarth]

@NecroVMX I love your reviews, nearly finished looking at them all. Btw, I was thinking about the scene in which Necros attacked the MI6 safe house. All the accents he did (American, British etc)...Were they dubbed, or was it purely due to the actor?

[TheGuyThatsAwesome]

The pre-credit sequence has nothing to do with the film? But doesn't the assassin leave a "Smiert Spionem" note on the agent before he cuts the rope?

[aptspire]

Heh Timothy Dalton: From protagonist to villain :D

[tcvicesquad]

A definite top 5 for me and a possible number 1!

[raoulhery]

top 5 movies ! Goldfinger, Tommorow Never Dies, Licence to kill, Living daylights and Casino Royal