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Yes, but I can't help thinking the rest of his films haven't lived up to that very very impressive start.
Talk about try too hard! His acting is so obvious you can see it! Overwrought and overplayed, his sad acting when he finds the poor dead Della is so fake it's hysterically funny "DELLA!" he cries with about as much realism as a Roger Moore fight scene.
His grim face throughout the entire film means he is very ANGRY someone hurt his friend (ooh DEA friend!) and they are going to pay. Even if it means resigning from MI6 and making his "farewell to arms" joke while in the HEMINGWAY HOUSE GEDDIT!!!!!!
His performance in this is like having someone ring a dinner gong next to your head for two hours. And don't get me started on his silly haircut when he meets Sanchez.
"More of a PROBLEM ELIMINATOR..." Oooh that's subtle! Might as well have I'M AN ASSASSIN Tattooed on his bonce!
By the way I loved his performance in TLD....
I've always felt a bit unsure about his "take me to him" delivery to Lupe. It's too in your face (literally) and it seems like Dalton is trying too hard to act intense and edgy.
Yes. His acting is forced and un-natural.
Shame, as he was so good in TLD. Excellent performance all round.
My criticism is a bit OTT but it's done with a sense of humour... :-*
He has other great moments in LTK, like in his final bout with Sanchez, his acting was on point there.
Only two points in LTK where I thought he overacted was when he wakes up on the bed - what the hell was that - and in the tanker when the tyres got shot and he swerved.
Dalton did give an excellent performance as Bond in TLD of course, second-best in the franchise outdone only by Craig's performance in CR.
I don't think the script helped. It's so one dimensional and unoriginal. Especially coming after the wonderful script for TLD.
LTK almost turns Bond into an unprofessional buffoon.
But he was excellent in TLD. Very natural performance.
I really do believe he made the mistake of 'trying too hard' in LTK. The grim nature of the film didn't help and neither did the abysmal script
I think LTK features the most intelligent Bond in the franchise. The way he destroys Sanchez' operation from the inside, turning him against his own crew one by one, is miles ahead of the typical Bond shooting his way through the film or just finding out random information from while globetrotting.
My only real problem is that Dalton is angry at everyone in the entire film and that makes him quite unlikable. Oh but the script had definite issues.
But is Bond supposed to be likeable?
Well I mean almost everyone.
I like him in every film except this one, DAF, QOS and TMWTGG. So I find that a problem.
GE is an adequate Bond film with a re-hash satellite storyline and middle of the road tone. Not to mention an awful score. It's average at best. In my opinion every DC outing is superior to GE (on DC's performance alone).
Agreed. "We're not a Country Club 007."
For me, CR is the 2nd best film in the series. So I wasn't expecting anything better. However, Craig continues to be the 2nd best Bond since Connery in the role.
But the only reason he gets 'inside' Sanchez's operation is completely by accident in that he is found by Sanchez captured by Hong Kong narcotics. An amazing stroke of luck!
And since he was Sanchez's captive 'guest' what else could he do?
Sorry but the whole 'I'm going to resign and kill the nasty drug dealer who maimed my friend and act completely outside of the law in a foreign country' just turned the character into a belligerent child who can't get what he wants.
In the early part of the film he just comes across as a self-righteous dickhead!
Even getting the innocent Sharky involved just because he had a boat! Who then ends up being killed because of his involvement.
Really? Even though the farewell to arms 'joke' is so overstated it deserved some canned laughter?!!!
I think it's a horrible scene. Dalton's line "But they're not going to do anything, sir!" comes across like a petulant child who can't get what he wants.
Dalton's best scene as Bond is surely in TLD where he interrogates Pushkin. He really was excellent in that film.
LTK definitely didn't remind me of Fleming. TLD certainly did, especially in the early scenes.
LTK is more like Miami Vice than Fleming.
It's an ugly, uneven film. It's only saving grace was Carey Lowell who I thought made a brilliant foil for Bond.
How the hell is it close to Fleming?!!!
Apart from a couple of moments nicked from the LALD novel there is NOTHING Fleming about it.
Bond disobeying a direct order to go and personally kill a drug dealer...?!!!
Nothing Fleming about that mate.
Although both the main plot and title of Licence to Kill owe nothing to any of the Fleming novels, there are elements from the books that are used in the storyline, including a number of aspects of the short story "The Hildebrand Rarity", such as the character Milton Krest. The novel Live and Let Die provided the material surrounding Felix Leiter's mauling by a shark, whilst the film version of the book provided the close similarity between the main villain, Kananga, and Licence to Kill's main villain Sanchez.
Anyhow, how is LTK like Miami Vice? I've seen every episode so eager to know?
Read all the novels many times over.
Milton Krest is in name only. He's nothing like the character from the story.
Sanchez using a stingray tail is irrelevant.
Bond disobeying an order on killing a sniper is slightly different than going off to kill a drug dealer simply for revenge in a foreign country after resigning from MI6!
As I mentioned they have cut and pasted a couple of scenes from LALD but that doesn't equate to the film being Fleming-esque. In fact those moments sit awkwardly in the film
Oh and as I mentioned Dalton was Fleming's Bond in TLD. Great performance.
His acting in LTK is overdone and laughably 'stagey'