The least known of all the Bond movies... well, Timothy Dalton may not be as charming as Sean Connery or Roger Moore, but besides that it’s not really all that different from the old Bond movies. There are all the usual ingredients: the silly action scenes, the explosions, the chases, Q and his gadgets, the useless blond girl, the fantasy that every female on the planet would fall to his feet and beg for his time, yeah sure, keep believing that , as well as the usual luck of the hero, since the only reason he makes it is once again because he’s lucky and the bad guys are not as much as him.
He’s ordered to help a Russian general escape to the UK to collaborate with them; he’s told there will be snipers trying to stop him, but he sees a pretty girl, a musician, and doesn’t kill her, only stops her.
He says it’s not because she’s pretty but because he saw she was not an expert sniper and got curious about her. The general seems frightened of everything, making you wonder how he became a Russian general... he tells Bond’s superiors that someone they know, general Pushkin, is planning something bad, I think he says that Pushkin wants to kill all their assets, then the place is attacked by a Russian assassin. The only good thing was that the other 00-agent actually put up a good fight, but of course he lost. The Russian guy managed alone to put the whole place in chaos and bring general Koskov away with him, alive... the security here was stupidly easy to fool, I must say.
His superiors want to kill Pushkin because of what Koskov said, but Bond is against it. He wants to investigate the girl, Kara, he finds her and learns that she thinks Koskov is some kind of benefactor, her good friend or something, apparently he even gave her a Stradivari cello.... he takes her away, they chase him, and he destroys a police car using lasers (good thing it was a tall car, had he used that on a lower one he would have cut the people inside...), the car has a bazooka to blow up a camion, simply assuming there was nobody inside or not caring, he cuts the ice with the wheel rims so that the bad guys’ car sinks in the water, his car also have skis, and nails that come out of the wheels to speed up on the ice, and a rocket button to increase his speed and jump over...
Koskov never really betrayed, he is working with Whitaker, a guy obsessed with war and toy soldiers and stuff, and they deal in arms and drugs, and stuff like that. It’s them who are killing the 00-agents one by one, to force them to kill Pushkin.
When another one is killed, Bond goes to talk to Pushkin (using his woman as a distraction, rather un-gentlemanly I’d say, then he pretends to kill Pushkin in front of people because he says that as long as he’s alive they won’t find out what Koskov wants.
She calls Koskov who lies to her about Bond and she believes him, she drugs Bond and Koskov comes to take him away, both of them actually. They take him away alive, she regrets what she did and starts helping him. Koskov hands both of them over to the Russian police, Bond frees himself and she’s all “we’re free!!!” and he’s like “we are in a Russian base in the middle of Afghanistan...”, the only funny scene in the movie, but it cracked me up :lol:
They also free the only other prisoner there, who turns out to be a leader of the mujahidin group that is fighting against the Russian, so he helps them afterwards.
Bond’s big plan is to leave her there and go fight alone his battle, which doesn’t seem to me a very brilliant idea, to leave a Russian girl in the middle of a group of male soldiers fighting against the Russians, for soooo many reasons... anyway, she won’t let him go away alone and follows, and they help too, and Bond plans to blow up a plane full of drugs using a bomb, but then Koskov sees him and he can’t get out so he flies the plane. She wants to go with him, takes a jeep and drives it inside the plane... better to stop the bomb now, but the assassin got in too and they fight. Bond left Kara to pilot the plane, and for some reason she takes matters in her own hands, who knows what she wanted to do, but she almost gets Bond killed when she opens the back of the plane. The two guys fight, Bond wins (the guy got hold of his foot but Bond cut his shoelaces and the other falls down); all the drugs flew out but not the sack with the bomb, but he stops it with two seconds to spare....
There’s a scene where Bond throws said bomb down onto a bridge to help the mujahidin rebels, I think, but it was painful to see that bridge fall down, not many months after our very own bridge here went down....
They lose fuel, the plane’s engines stop, they are going down, so they launch themselves out in the jeep, landing very easily as if it was nothing. He goes to Whitaker, still playing with his toy soldiers, but rather serious in his own way, he gets out of it thanks to his usual luck, then Pushkin arrests Koskov. It’s all over now.
Kara is playing, doing a concert, and the mujahidin leader comes to greet her like old friends, but she leaves them to go to her dressing room where Bond is hiding, and there’s the usual kissing and Bond-like finale.
These action movies do not age too well, watching it now, specially for the first time, it is rather boring.
ITA 007- Zona pericolo
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