Loved both Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. Hard edged and ruthless is basically Bond's character. Dalton knocked it out of the park.

"Salt corrosion." -- One of my favorite lines from any Bond film. Dalton's delivery is perfect.

I never tire of watching The Living Daylights. This is a top 5 Bond movie. Tim Dalton is brilliant and convincing as James Bond.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS(1987): What a great James Bond film! Great action, great dialogues! "Bond versus Pushkin in Tangier hotel room": probably the best scene in the franchise ever! Timothy Dalton & John Rhys-Davies are brilliant actors!

just finished watching it an hour ago,forgot how good it was, dalton is a great actor,maryam d abo also did a great job.

Dalton was my first "new Bond" after growing up with the impression that 007 was either Connery or Moore. TLD really felt like a "hip" Bond film born of the 80s. To this day, when it comes to Bond actors, those guys make up my Top Three.

Dalton was an excellent Bond. It's a great shame that he only did two. I remember seeing this at the cinema when it was first released. I immediately accepted Dalton as Bond and felt it was a return to the early Connery/Lazenby films in story and style.

This is one of my favorite Bond films. Count me among the Timothy Dalton fans who wish he had more films. This is an extremely well done thriller that brings the series back to its roots. Yeah the villains are weak, but Koskov could have been better if played differently. I'm not sure Whitaker could have been improved. Needed more development. Kara is great. The action is awesome. One of the best final acts in the series. It's one of the best.

great conversation and that twist at the end with Calvin Dyson had me in stitches for a full minute

Definitely a top 5 Bond movie

8:06 The sniper sequence to the Koshkov defection and then the excellent Pushkin interrogation and fake murder are two of the most Flemingesque Bond moments in the entire franchise

Living Daylights and Licence to Kill have leaped into my personal top 5 Bonds in recent years. Living Daylights edges out Licence because i love how much more of a Spy Thriller it is compared to many other Bonds. A majority of them are Adventure Films with Spy elements. The adventure aspect is here but the Spy element is dominant.

You Only Live Twice is probably my favorite John Barry 007 theme.

I love the kitchen fight with Necros. There's a lovely nod to it in the Family Guy episode 'No Chris Left Behind' when the chicken grabs an electric bread knife and comes at Peter who responds by throwing a pot of boiling water at him. Nearly choked on my drink the first time I saw this 😂

This movie has a special place in my heart as I was living in Japan when this came out and I always acquaint this movie with that very special time in my life. With Roger Moore being in the role for so long, I genuinely did not know what to expect. But from that opening scene I immediately accepted Dalton as Bond. Having read the books, there was just something about him, a vibe he instantly gave off that he WAS Fleming's character walked out of the pages of the books and come to life. After the rather lazy and underwhelming approach to A View To a Kill. The Living Daylights had me back on the edge of my seat, my eyes out on storks and a big grin on my face as I came out of the theatre feeling exhausted but completely satisfied by the whole experience of watching this film. The weak trio of villains didn't even bother me at the time. I just loved the ride. It was a huge improvement on the last film and like The Spy Who Loved Me, it even delivered a double climax. The fight with Necros on the bags of opium while hanging out the back of the plane is a real show-stopper. I watched that scene with my jaw dropped open and hanging on the ground. It still looks awesome. You can just see on the screen why so many fans adore this movie and just love Timothy Dalton's interpretation of Bond. You're not alone in gushing over this one. For Your Eyes Only and The Living Daylights are highly gushible. (I don't think gushible is really a word).

I think deleted scenes like the flying carpet and some of the script was written with Brosnan in mind as if he were to be Bond at this point they would've carried on with the Roger Moore style of Bond film. This is easily one of the best films in the franchise, so is Licence to Kill, audiences just weren't ready at the time.

Dalton nailed it as 007, the girl is compassionate towards Bond and vice versa , the action is strong and believable, the Aston is full with gadget and super cool looking, music is great, all in all fantastic movie, in my top 5.

Timothy Dalton is my favourite Bond. Not only is The Living Daylights a damn good movie. It might even have the best soundtrack of the whole damn series. The theme song is awesome too.

Ha, sick ending collab with Calvin lol

What a great bond film. Just watched this again tonight and boy oh boy... what a gem. Dalton is excellent too.

Hell yeah baby, I love Dalton's performance as Bond

I think Timothy Dalton is exceptional as James Bond....I love this film....

Dalton is an underrated Bond. They were trying to get him for OHMSS but he didn't want to follow Connery. Loved how his Bond would go from light and caring to hard killer in a split second. How he goes from trusting to Kara to he may have to kill her. "If there was a man" is actually a great Bond song that should have been the theme.

17:05 best scene in a Bond movie, and that includes the Craig Era, like you get every bit of Dalton's Bond's range and professionalism

Ok, that ending was brilliant! Made my night. Just like The Living Daylights did back in December 87.

Another small thing I love about this film is that the parrot from For Your Eyes Only shows up in this film in the MI6 building during the Necros attack. Pretty sure he wasn’t playing Melina’s parrot Max, but it was the same parrot playing the part.

Love the ending with the balloon ref Calvin & David @The BondExperience. Did make me laugh. Great review as always.

Dalton was super underrated as Bond. In a lot of ways, I think he is the best bond after Connery. He definitely nailed the character right....wish they continued more movies with him in that tone. Licence to Kill would have been better if the production/scope and characters were better, and if they just did more cold war themed follow on films, think he would have been more embraced.

This was an underrated movie. The opening scene is best of the whole franchise. It was definitely the best way to introduce a new Bond.

I remember working at a nite club when this came out and I took every girl I met there to see this at the movies! Then I even went by myself a bunch of times! After A View to a Kill it really felt like a return to the classic James Bond that I loved. I thought Dalton brought so much realism,danger and drama to it-he was well ahead of his time. He did a serious Fleming Bond years before Daniel Craig and in many ways,he really paved the way for the 007 we see today! .....Hey AWESOME tag at the end there Joe!!! Beautifully Directed too!👍🏻👍🏻

The Living Daylights is a very good entry in the series and big step up from the prior movie in the series. Timothy Dalton makes a solid debut, the score is fantastic, the locations are nice, and the action sequences were great. Like George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton did a really impressive job with role, but never got a chance to click with the mass audiences due to circumstances being what they were at the time behind the scenes.

A very welcome return @beingjamesbond!!! This is one of my favourites: it’s an epic and Dalton is fantastic

About John Barry. Recently, I rediscovered his superb music score for King Kong 1976. Wow! A great-great score! Especially in "Dwan falls" and "King Kong climbs to the top of the WTC(extended cut)" scenes! He was a genius, no doubt about it!

The living daylights. My first bond film. One of my favorite opening scenes and the reason why Gibraltar is on my top 10 places to visit. Q "it's a ghetto blaster " is one of my favorite Q moments. Sadly its Walter Gotels (gogol) last Bond film appearance.

John Barry and other iconic music in the series is responsable for at least 50% of the success of these films.

Great film, great story, great music and a great Bond in Dalton. In case you don't realise TLD is one of my favourites lol.

My friends and I called Necros the K.G.B. milkman. Really enjoyed this one in the theater. One of my friends was a huge Moore fan and refused to go see it. The scene where Bond says “I got the message.” after Saunders dies was great. Hadn’t seen Bond like that in a long while. Strange part is the people who thought Dalton was too dark and violent liked Daniel Craig’s darker, more violent Bond.

Have to be honest back in 87 i didnt like dalton but years later i realised just how great he was and was a shame he only got 2 movies

Absolutely love the Dalton Bond pics. Saw this one a couple of times in the cinema.

Great bond movie he should of done more James bond movies

A nice blend of Ian Fleming's Bond and the movie Bond tropes with John Barry finishing his Bond career on a magnificent high

It is interesting that most of the score is based around Where Has Everybody Gone in its instrumentation rather than the Ah-Ha track. I believe the latter song was done quite quickly as the producers wanted a big name from the pop world at the time to emulate Duran Duran's success although I enjoy both in their own way. Great review as always guys and love the ending!

Timothy Dalton's First outing as James Bond 007 was very impressive in ''THE LIVING DAYLIGHT'S''' (1987) The late john Barry's last Bond Film Score was Great with Collaboration with Pop Group 'AH-HA, even if the rumor was he never liked the Group. the Title song still sounds Good when re-watching the Film it's a pity Dalton only made two films. this one i give 8 out of 10

The first James Bond film I ever saw in the theater -- and still my favorite to this day.

Kara Milovy was one of the Best Bond Women in the whole franchise. Very good acting from the actress. Made the character believable and they both had great chemistry together. I also I like the fact that Bond is actually friendly with many of the high ranking Russians and would one day like to see the Cold war ended and Bond can be friends with the Russians he is actually quite fond of throughout his assignments and Bond works with Russian General Pushkin to prevent rogue elements making things go out of hand.A great 1980s soundtrack by A-Ha, Pretenders and John Barry. Along with Kara Milovy extremely well played by the lovely Maryam D'Abo. Just a top notch very 1980s bond movie. Its one of my favourite movie in the entire franchise. Timothy Dalton just did such a great job with the character.

Great review guys! Dalton's best, one of Barry's best scores and one of the best Bond films imo! I saw aha love last year, when they played The Living Daylights, I went absolutely mental!

🤣 Outstanding double bluff with the balloons at the end guys! Joe showing Tim Dalton how act rage! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Another great video for a great film. The Living Daylights is Bond at its best. Krabbe is Dutch by the way and John Rhys Davies is Welsh and it's pronounced REECE ;)

This came out when I was 11 years old and was a bit disappointed because as I stated at the time the villains were boring. However I realised several years later how good everything else (except John Terry as Felix) was. One of my top 5. Watched it again before watching this video. Love it.

Great review. One point, though. Fairly certain Koskov was being taken to be executed. The "diplomatic bag" line is a reference to his remains going back in an official pouch, if I recall correctly.

one of the best Bonds for me--up there with--IMHO "You Only Live Twice", "Casino Royale" "the Spy who loved me" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".

Ah yes. The Living Daylights. IMO it was Daltons best outing as Bond.

Dalton gets a lot of flak - quite unfairly. He was ahead of his time, foreshadowing what Craig’s films atmosphere would be. Although TLD has some problems(in places it feels too much like a Moore film), I think he fits the role well, I like some of the setpieces in it and I like his relationship with the Bond girl, very romantic. I think he really came into his own in his next film LTK(which splits people), which I think is his best film.

A stark and a welcomed departure from the Sir Roger Moore era. I think the first part of the movie is probably the best spy thriller in the Bond franchise, but it is when it goes to Afghanistan when the movie kind of loses momentum

In the first draft of the script, it was Gen. Gogol who was framed by the villains. Also, in the first draft, there was no Aston Martin. Bond simply stole a police car. I'm guessing the Aston Martin's ability to pick up police signals was a leftover from that draft.

This is one of my favorite Bond movies: It was the first I watched as a kid and it features a cello. 😂

Great review guys. I was only 6 when The Living Daylights came out. Saw it on video hire about a year later. Always loved this film. I am also a defender of Whitaker who despite his lack of scenes was a different villain to come across. He certainly deserved a few more scenes and if you look at the original workprint he did have a couple extra scenes never added to final film. His scene with Pushkin ended with Whitaker having the last word. He said " i don't frighten easily General and I have ways to protect myself from your KGB" followed by a rather angry " On the double Sgt the General is leaving" Don't see why it was cut. Anyway like I said very underused character. If this is your last post before Christmas then I wish you a Merry Christmas from the Shetland islands. Been good listening this year.

When Bond fought Necros on the cargo net - when he was swept out, you got a gasp from the cinema audience

Oh Yes, loving Calvin’s cameo at the end! ☺️ Brilliant stuff!

My first real opportunity to watch the entire series (to that point) came in the mid 2000s as Spike had a marathon of them all. This film was the one that best stood out to me, and it's been a favorite since!

Good review guys. Crabbe is Dutch. Same first name as DBF.

Great review! I love the edit when Bond tells Kara they are not picking up her cello and the next scene Bond is waiting for her in the car impatiently. And I actually liked Dalton’s one liners (why didn’t you learn the violin, salt corrosion).

timothy dalton was a great bond

I've been waiting for this one and Joseph and Scott do not disappoint. Spot on, fellas. I love this entry too. And that ending was brilliant!

After just re-reading the novels, I always picture Dalton. Only one who got it right. The best Bond.

Dalton is still my favorite Bond to this day. TLD my favorite Bond film. It was a welcome change of tone after the rather campy Roger Moore Bond movies (I thoroughly enjoyed those). John Barry went out with a bang on the score.

The best Bond, imo.

Amazing cameo by Calvin Dyson at the end there.

Really enjoyable review of one of my favourite Bond films, glad you pointed out Barry's excellent score!

This another favorite Bond Film of mine and I love the action and the return of the Aston Martin in a bond film and the V8 Violate will return in No Time To Die and it's my favorite Bond car

Great Job as always! Would love to see Scott more involved with the Bond Community. Perhaps an interview as to how he became such a Bond Fan.

Lol calvin at the end

The old bond movies are just the benchmark

I love Dalton in this film. Probably physically closest to the Ian Fleming Bond. Such a shame that License to kill wasn't as great (can't get past his haircut).

My second favourite bond film.

DALTON IS THE BEST BOND!

The resemblance of the Agents 002 and 004 with Roger Moore and George Lazenby in the Pre Title Sequence was intended, to confuse the Audience. They were played by Frederick Warder (Lazenby)und Glyn Baker (Moore).

Great review as ever, and I love the ending, nearly choked laughing.

Musically - although still the great John Barry - this film marks the first time a drum machine was used (to my ear), especially in the opening / Bond theme, and other places. Used sparingly and tastefully, but it modernized the sound of 007 for the 80s... until Eric Serra did in 'Golden Eye' eight years later for the 90s.

Another great review, guys. I love this movie to bits! This movie made me a Bond super fan when I was a kid! Very little not to love about it.

A third Dalton film would've been yet another with the word "Die" in the title.....City 'til I Die.

Another great review with a hilarious ending... Thanks guys and looking forward to your next, assumingly more controversial review!

Always said this is the best bond film ever made

45:23 he is actually Dutch and the DutchBondFan actually pointed that out in his own review

This is the only movie review I finished all the way through, fun, entertaining and agreeable for the all the most parts. Kudos!

Totally agree with you guys. For me, one of the best. Top five.

Great movie

Great review, guys! Kara is one of my fav Bond girls. And Dalton has become one of my favs over the years. Amazing score as well. Can't wait for the next one. Happy Holidays!

Watched this at the cinema last night got me think how influenced was this film by the Rambo series. It felt very Rambo in the Afghanistan airbase.

Some guy commented on another video how you always say again and now i cannot unhear it and boy do you say that a lot.. But i still do enjoy these videos very much, greta job

Very nice pronunciation on Jeroen Krabbé Joe!. But he is Dutch , not French.

Was going to leave a like because the video of was great. The like was cemented by the unexpected Calvin cameo.

Cubby Brocoli asked Dalton to star in Goldeneye. However after a 6 year gap, he didn't want Dalton to star in one film, then leave. Probably wanted another 3/4 films from him. Dalton could not make that committment.

Adding “potpourri of villainy” to my vocabulary.

Dalton is by far the best Version Of Commander James Bond

Dalton was really holding onto the top of the truck by the cliff.

Wish dalton could have made at least 1 or 2 more bonds he was excellant though I like them all

I love this movie. First Bond film I ever saw in the cinema. I was 15. All the others I had seen on TV. This was very different to Roger Moore. It was a harder Bond and a very good spy thriller full of deceit and betrayal. Bond only had one girl (maybe two if you include the one in the pre-title sequence). This was due to the AIDS epidemic and the producers did not want to promote promiscuity. Without Dalton there would be no Craig. He was 20 years too early for his style to be appreciated by the audiences.

27:23 very fitting music choice!!!

OK...this is an interesting one to look back on on multiple levels. Personal context...back when the film came out would have been the first time I had heard the name "James Bond"...I have vague memories of my Dad wearing a t-shirt promoting this film for reasons unknown. Also bear in mind though I'd have been four years old and wouldn't set foot in a cinema even for a Disney movie for some years. Fast forward to...circa 1992/93...what could well have been the UK TV premiere of this film...so it still felt fairly new...I was still getting used to the idea of different actors playing Bond and needed my Dad to point Bond out. Definitely liked what I saw though and this was one of the films that really secured my interest in the Bond franchise. By the mid 00s...I was hanging out in the Bond online fandom, this was post-Brosnan pre-Craig so I was calling the Connery-Lazenby-Moore era "old school" and DAlton-Brosnan "new school". Even now, this feels like it was the start of a new era for the franchise. The plot and feel of the film is straightforward enough but in a way keeping the franchise going with a younger actor was a gamble. You get Bond being called "old man" early on in the film but short of Bond having found a fountain of youth in the previous two years...it's hard to claim that this guy was the same guy people had watched for the previous 25 years. Could you have bought Moore back as Bond for one last go, paired him up with a younger character played by Dalton and then killed him off to pass on the torch? Either way, can't complain about what we got, rock solid action-espionage film for the era and another great soundtrack. 8/10.