An average movie

Even though I had seen most of the installments starring Sean Connery and a few starring Roger Moore, when I was a kid, I was rather oblivious concerning Timothy Dalton tenure as James Bond. Anyway, 20 years later, I thought it was time to watch his flicks. Personally, I think they made a nice try with him to make the franchise a little darker than it was. Eventually, it was too soon, the audience was just not ready, especially following the fluffiness provided by Roger Moore’ s installments. Furthermore, the makers didn’t really dare to make it too violent or too realistic but this Bond was definitely a precursor to the one portrayed by Daniel Craig 20 years later. Timothy Dalton has been praised as being the closest representation to what Ian Fleming meant with James Bond and also criticized because he managed to make only 2 movies which weren’t really successful and the franchise stopped after him for 6 long years. Personally, I think Dalton did a pretty decent job, I liked the tone of this flick and there were of course some pretty neat action scenes. It was also pretty cool to see a young Benicio Del Toro playing one of the bad guys. Such a fine actor, even here, he did a really good job. Despite being one of the least commercially successful Bond movies, many fans and critics nowadays praises the realism of this movie. I think it is actually a decent installment but I'd rather have Bond on a mission than one of his personal vendettas. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, I still think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10