Review of The Living Daylights (1987) by Petros T — 19 Sep 2015

Timothy Dalton misses the finesse of predecessors Connery and Moore, yet remains a very convincing Bond in a film that does distance itself somehow from previous instalments anyway. There are certainly moments where director John Glen gets to shine, but he also opts for the safe "blow-shit-up" card quite a lot: many action scenes are completely dominated by the ample explosions - which call for decidedly less directorial labour - thus resulting in a film notably closer to modern action flicks.