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Does The Living Daylights actually have the dumbest, most illogical villain scheme for any Bond movie?

posted 7 years ago by TMC-4 (20121)
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I know people enjoy Dalton Bond these days but The Living Daylights has an idiotic plot if you really think on it, especially for what is supposed to be the adult in the room sort of Bond movie. Basically a rogue Russian general and an arms dealer are doing these dealings to fund the drug trade out of the Middle East but start killing MI6 agents to restart Smiert Spionam (killing enemy spies), ostensibly to prevent MI6 for catching them and to frame John Rhys Davies. The problem is that none of this makes any sense because no one at MI6 gave a crap about any of this before Koskov tried to "defect" so him defecting and the restarting of the Smiert Spionam essentially is what got their operation on Bond's radar in the first place. Also, all of these various assassinations scared the hell out of the CIA and got their operation on Felix Leiter's radar, so basically these guys are complete idiots. Some of the weakest Bond heels ever.

[–] millsey72 (10241) 3 years ago

I agree. Most Bond films have ridiculous over the top plots. The few Bond movies where the villain has a realistic plan are Moonraker and You only live twice. The rest are all silly

[–] FootOfDavros (8138) 2 years ago

It's quite similar to Octopussy this one.

[–] HellFire (561) 2 months ago

Honestly, you can analyze pretty much every Bond film and make it sound ridiculous. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (which I do like) is praised for been more grounded but the plot is typical 60's psychosis bollocks even if it does follow the novel.

There's no need for Blofeld's Angels Of Death. Just send his henchmen to suitable locations.

[–] HellFire (561) 2 months ago

[–] doubleout (21) 5 days ago

I just watched this--the Bond movies are on Pluto TV right now--and was thinking the same thing, especially since they just sent Necros to do the job anyway.

But their scheme does make some sense, I guess. Get the British to their dirty work and at least try to avoid any blame. Still kind of convoluted and probably would have made more sense to just hire someone outside their organization.

[–] jk90us (7138) 5 days ago

About as dumb as the title.

[–] TMC-4 (20121) 5 days ago

How exactly, is all of this "dumb"!? Don't say that something is dumb and not bother to explain why you feel this way in the first place.

[–] jk90us (7138) 4 days ago

You haven’t heard the title?