Thursday, 11 October 2012

Bond goes to Afghanistan


The Living Daylights (1987)

Directed by John Glen this Bond film stars Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Ado and Jeroen Krabbe. Bond helps a Soviet general defect but becomes suspicious of his motives and investigates further.

Despite being one of the more over looked Bonds star Timothy Dalton is not bad in the role and brings a lot more seriousness to the part following the Roger Moore era. The plot of the film is fairly common cold war era stuff but is a bit more grounded in reality than some of the plots that you find floating around in the Bond cannon. Given more recent world events it is also interesting to see how much like Rambo 3 (1998) the Mujahideen in Afghanistan are used as allies to the hero.

3/5

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