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Shaken, Not Stirred: Ranking The Bond Movies - #8. The Living Daylights

The first Dalton movie to happen after all the teases that he would come on board. Would it be Moore again, would it be Brosnan, eventually Dalton would end up in the role. A Bond 19 years younger and the last PG Bond. All the Connery and Moore years behind Eon, they were ready to move into the later half of the 80s with a fresh reboot that sadly would only last two movies. On my first watch, this one was much more enjoyable than License to Kill with a big airplane chase at the end, parachute out of a moving vehicle, war museum shootout, roller coaster, cellos, pipeline smuggling and an opening scene that hasn't been matched by too many other Bond films killing off 002 and 004 both whom looked similar to both Moore and Lazenby. I think only the Brosnan movies start off as well as this, as does Skyfall and Casino. My rankings have LD at about where you see it on this list. The internet scores have it closer to the middle of all the Bond movies. It's a good mix of action and sp