11 Things You Learn Rewatching The Living Daylights

7. The Movie Deserved A Better Bond Girl

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Another of the movie's undeniable failings is its single Bond girl, Kara Milovy, played with utter indifference by Maryam d'Abo. The main problem isn't so much d'Abo's uninspired performance but simply how utterly passive and uninteresting she is.

More a chess piece than an actual person, she's pushed and pulled by 007 and her lover Koskov (Jeroen Krabbé) over the course of the movie, but has almost zero agency of her own, and does idiotic things like hug Bond when he's in the middle of piloting a plane (much to his disdain).

She's beautiful, sure, but she does nothing memorable and doesn't even have basic chemistry with Dalton, either. It's a rare case of a Bond girl truly feeling like they're beneath 007, with Dalton's more sophisticated rendition of the character leaving fans craving a female lead to match him.

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