In this installment of the James Bond series, Agent 007 (Timothy Dalton) is assigned to protect a Russian defector (Maryam d'Abo) from the KGB. When the defection proves to be an elaborate ploy, Bond woos her anyway, and together they follow a trail to a crooked American arms dealer supplying weapons to Afghanistan. Dalton finally assumes the role of Bond after refusing it 16 years earlier with DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. The film is loosely based on Ian Fleming's short story.
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Desmond Llewelyn as Q John Rhys-Davies as General Leonid Pushkin Timothy Dalton as James Bond
This movie, the fifteenth in the James Bond series, is one of two Bond movies from the 80's to star Timothy Dalton as 007. It's a radical departure from the carefree Roger Moore efforts. For starters, Dalton is young enough to be Moore's son. How old was Moore in A VIEW TO A KILL, about 63? The Bond regulars were all starting to show their age in that movie. They might as well have changed Miss Moneypenny's name to Miss Menopause. But here, in addition to the new Bond, we see a new Moneypenny, played by Caroline Bliss--a name worthy of a Bond girl.