Timothy Dalton's first Bond film. 1987. Director: John Glen.
Bond (Timothy Dalton) and two other 00-agents are having a practice mission at Gibraltar when someone kills one of the agents. Bond finds the dead body with a note that says: 'Smiert spionem', which means 'Death to spies'. He chases the killer who is blown up in a car after a wild fight.
Bond later helps a KGB agent named Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbé) to fly from Bratislava. When Koskov runs from a toilet, a sniper appears and Bond is suppose to shoot the person but when he sees that it's a girl who played the cello in the orchestra earlier that night, he miss her on purpose.
When Bond, M, Koskov and a bunch of other people later is having a meeting in England, a blond villain (Andreas Wisniewski) comes and with the help of some others from KGB, he kidnaps Koskov and brings him back to the east.
What MI6 doesn't know is that it was all a fake. Koskov faked it all, the escape, all! Not knowing of this, Bond goes to Bratislava to kill a man named Pushkin (John Rhys-Davies) who according to Koskov is behind the 'Smiert spionem' thing.
Bond meet Kara Milovy (Maryam D'abo), the girl with the cello. She's the girlfriend of Koskov, but she doesn't know who he really is. She thinks that he's a good guy. Bond pretends to be Koskov's friend and Kara believes him.
In Vienna, Bond meet Saunders (Thomas Wheatley) who says that there's a link between Koskov and general Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker) who's going to sell KGB high-tech weapons. Saunders is then killed by the blond villain, Necros.
Bond then travel to Tangier where Pushkin is. He's just about to kill Pushkin when the man reveal that Koskov is a bad guy. Koskov wants Bond to kill Pushkin, so Bond and Pushkin fakes the assassination of Pushkin.
Kara, who still don't know Bond's real identity, has fallen in love with him, but she's still Koskov's girlfriend and she knows that. When Bond know has to face Koskov again and stop his evil business, can he trust Kara?
This is Timothy Dalton's first Bond film. He's not bad at all, except from one little detail that bother me all the time. The fact that he looks like he's crying all the time, he's eyes are all wet. And, one more thing, he does something that for me is forbidden for Bond to do: laugh!
Except from Dalton's little irritating details, this is a good Bond film. The music is really good and there are many exiting action scenes. Maryam D'abo's Kara Milovy is the first Bond girl who's never shown in less clothes then her usual daily clothing on the town. But she's so cute that it doesn't matter.
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