James Bond - The Living Daylights (Ultimate Edition, 2 DVDs)

After 57 year-old Roger Moore finally bowed out for good after 1985's A View To a Kill the producers of the world's most enduring franchise had not only to find a new James Bond but also freshen up their slightly tired series. 33 year-old Pierce Brosnan was eventually hired and after Michael G Wilson's proposed origin idea was rejected by Albert R Broccoli, a taut more grounded film was planned with Fleming's short story giving the film both its title and opening sequences. At the last minute Brosnan's Bond dream was curtailed by a television contract and a last minute Bond was needed. Broccoli turned to British stage actor Timothy Dalton. Dalton had spoken to Broccoli ...

Oooh, here we have a new Bond to replace Moore's departure after 'A View With A Kill', and a bloody tough, mean son of a gun he is too. 'The Living Daylights' marked a new Bond, and a new style of Bond films, returning to the old Connery rugged machismo style, and Timothy Dalton is like a breath of fresh air after Moore's geriatric last performance, relying on jokes because he was too old to do any stunts. 'The Living Daylights' is the 16th remastered Bond DVD to be released (though it is the 15th Bond film to be made, as TWINE was released first with Doctor No), and a personal favourite of mine. Not least becuase Dalton is an ...

The 15th Bond film to be made saw a change in the lead role, with Roger Moore hanging up his boots as the smooth MI6 agent James Bond, and Timothy Dalton taking up the role, for what was to be the first of only two outings for him as Bond. The Plot Bond is sent to ensure the safe passage of Koskov, a KGB defector from Austria to England, where he realises that Russian KGB General Pushkin has reinstated the Russian policy of 'smert' spionam', meaning 'death to all spies'. He is forced to team up with Russian agent Kara Milovy to combat Pushkin, but all is not as it seems with Koskov's defection, and his business dealings with arms dealer General ...