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- Adventure
- Crime/detective
- 1987
- John Glen
- 130 mins
- PG
Summary
Spy adventure starring Timothy Dalton and Maryam D'Abo. Agent 007 James Bond encounters a beautiful concert cellist when he is ordered to help a KGB general defect to the West. But the general is later abducted from Britain and Bond embarks on a mission that uncovers illegal arms dealing and diamond smuggling.
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A star rating of 3 out of 5.
Mark Braxton
After the creaky pantomime of the late Roger Moore era, Timothy Dalton's take on 007 is a breath of fresh air. Though lean and flint-eyed, his serious approach never takes the secret agent beyond our sympathy. For a story that segues from Soviet defection and arms dealing to the struggles of the Mujahidin, this is an endearingly human Bond. He sweats, he bleeds and, unusually for the sleep-around spy, he falls in love - with Czech cellist Kara (Maryam D'Abo). It's a freewheeling, romantic adventure with a sweetly staged prologue, nods to the gadget brigade and a hair-raising aerial scrap - one of the best of the series. In common with many of the superspy's outings, the villains themselves are colourless but there's a killer henchman - in this case the sleek, wordless Necros (Andreas Wisniewski). The hero's warmongery is iffy and the finale a little lame; otherwise this is a savagely underrated escapade.
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rolenameJames BondTimothy DaltonKara MilovyMaryam D'AboGeneral Georgi KoskovJeroen KrabbéBrad WhitakerJoe Don BakerGeneral Leonid PushkinJohn Rhys-DaviesKamran ShahArt MalikNecrosAndreas WisniewskiSaundersThomas Wheatley"Q"Desmond Llewelyn"M"Robert BrownMinister of DefenceGeoffrey KeenGeneral Anatol GogolWalter GotellMiss MoneypennyCaroline BlissFelix LeiterJohn Terry
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rolenameDirectorJohn Glen
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Theatrical distributor
U.I.P. (UK)
Released on
1987-06-30
Languages
English | English | Czech | Arabic | German | Pashto | Russian | Slovak | French
Guidance
May be edited for violence and nudity.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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