1987 | Action
131 mins United Kingdom United States
Fifteenth film in Eon's James Bond series and Timothy Dalton's first in the role. (Pierce Brosnan was lined up for the part but forced to drop out due to his commitments to the Remington Steele TV show). Bond assists in the apparent defection of a KGB general and finds himself mixed up in a devious world of drugs and arms dealing. Sticks relatively close to the plot of the original Ian Fleming short story for the first fifteen minutes or so.
GoldenEye (1995) 
Licence To Kill (1989) | Produced by | Eon Productions |
| Director | John Glen |
| Writer | Richard Maibaum and Michael G Wilson |
| Cast | Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Art Malik, Andreas Wisniewski and Thomas Wheatley |
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Still, all the globetrotting, fights and chases and so on you would expect from a Bond film in the classic style, and Dalton brings enough of the literary Bond to the screen to make this satisfying for people who like the franchise in slightly grittier mode. Has a certain value as a historical oddity, given it concludes with Bond teaming up with (essentially) the Taliban to attack an airbase in Afghanistan. Dalton arguably never got a proper crack of the whip as Bond; in this film he shows enough promise to make that a real cause for regret.
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