My personal favorite James Bond movie.
The Living Daylights is more of a John la Carre Cold War espionage thriller than a James Bond flick.
After Bond helps a Russian general make a daring defection to the West, the intelligence community is shocked when the general is abducted from his remote hiding place. Bond leaps into action, following a trail that leads to the gorgeous Kara, who plays Bond as easily as she plays her Stradivari cello. As they unravel a complex weapons scheme with global implications, they are forced into international chases, a riveting jailbreak, and an epic battle in the Afghanistan desert with tanks, airplanes and a legion of freedom fighters on horseback.
Timothy Dalton is easily the best actor to play Bond. A member of the RSC, he also appeared in such distinguished films as The Lion in Winter, Cromwell, Mary, Queen of Scots, Agatha, Chanel Solitaire, and The Doctor and the Devils.
The rest of the cast include Maryam d'Abo, Jerome Krabbe, Joe Don Baker, Art Malik, John Rhys-Davies, Andreas Wisniewski, Thomas Wheatley, Desmond Llewelyn, John Terry, Caroline Bliss, Walter Gotell, Geoffrey Keen, and Robert Brown as "M."