The Living Daylights (1987)
The new James Bond...living on the edge.
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The Living Daylights rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.7/10· 113K votes
Rotten Tomatoes73%
Metacritic59%
TMDb6.542/10· 2K votesWith 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.7/10 on IMDb and 59/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.
About The Living Daylights
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.
Cast of The Living Daylights
Timothy Dalton
as James Bond
Maryam D'Abo
as Kara Milovy
Joe Don Baker
as Brad Whitaker
Art Malik
as Kamran Shah
John Rhys-Davies
as General Leonid Pushkin
Jeroen Krabbé
as General Georgi Koskov
Andreas Wisniewski
as Necros
Thomas Wheatley
as Saunders
Desmond Llewelyn
as Q
Robert Brown
as M
Geoffrey Keen
as Minister of Defence
Walter Gotell
as General Anatol Gogol
The Living Daylights facts
- Budget
- $40M
- Box office
- $191.2M
- Collection
- James Bond Collection
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Bond espionage thrills deliver globe trotting adventure with style
- •Cold War tensions provide topical geopolitical stakes to spy narrative
- •Action sequences blend practical stunts with impressive technical execution
What the audience disliked
- •Plot resolution feels somewhat anticlimactic despite build up tension
- •Certain supporting characters lack depth or meaningful story impact
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