Story Line
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
“The new James Bond...living on the edge.”
Top Cast
Timothy Dalton
James Bond
Maryam D'Abo
Kara Milovy
Joe Don Baker
Brad Whitaker
Art Malik
Kamran Shah
John Rhys-Davies
General Leonid Pushkin
Jeroen Krabbé
General Georgi Koskov
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Rating
6.5/ 10
Release Date
1987-06-29
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
ActionAdventureThriller
Part of the Series
James Bond Collection
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User Reviews (6)
Wuchak
6/10
•9/5/2018_**Solid Bond film with Timothy Dalton taking over as 007**_
"The Living Daylights" was the first of two James Bond films featuring Timothy Dalton as 007. It's a solid Bond flick, but rarely cited when the best films of the franchise are discuss...
JPV852
8/10
•4/19/2020Great entry into the series and wonderful debut for Dalton who was charming, and for me far and away better than any of Roger Moore's movies (though found some of his to be entertaining enough). Not all that fond of this theme song but still catchy e...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•7/29/2022So Roger Moore has handed the baton of Ian Fleming's "007" to Timothy Dalton and this first outing is not at all bad. The story is, perhaps, not the best but this is still an action packed adventure with loads of pyrotechnics and daft gadgets that re...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/11/2023I don't understand all the hate on Dalton as 007, I actually thought he was a decent Bond, I thought he brought back some of the cold blooded assassin that personified the first of the Connery Era films.
And I think he was a much needed change of ...