The Living Daylights (1987) movie poster

The Living Daylights (1987)

"The new James Bond...living on the edge."
ThumbScore
👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 66%
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Director
John Glen
Runtime
2h 10m
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.5/10 (1,984 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
72%
Metacritic
59

Cast

Timothy Dalton as James Bond · 79% avg
Maryam D'Abo as Kara Milovy
Joe Don Baker as Brad Whitaker · 73% avg
Art Malik as Kamran Shah · 68% avg
John Rhys-Davies as General Leonid Pushkin · 73% avg
Jeroen Krabbé as General Georgi Koskov · 74% avg
Andreas Wisniewski as Necros
Thomas Wheatley as Saunders

Is The Living Daylights good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 66%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#347 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#23 / 57 · 1987
Rank among its director's films
#3 / 5 · John Glen

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

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The Living Daylights from 1987 is a solid Bond movie that clearly went for a more gritty Cold War spy movie vibe over action film though without forgoing all of the elements we expect from Bond
the first James Bond film with Timothy Dalton. Dalton has said his approach was to go back to the original portrayal of the character by author Ian... Read on Reddit →
Top comment: "I was astonished at how much I liked Dalton as Bond. Highly underrated film."
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