Ranking Every New James Bond Actor's Introductory Scene From Worst To Best
3. Timothy Dalton - Training Day Car Chase (The Living Daylights)
Timothy Dalton was offered the role of Bond several times but declined for various reasons.
He was first offered the role in 1968 to star in On Her Majesty's Secret Service but shot it down because he said it would have been impossible to take over from Sean Connery. Eventually, in 1986, at the age of 40, Dalton agreed and went on to star in two Bond films The Living Daylights and License To Kill as the fourth James Bond.
His introduction: The film opens with a double-O training exercise gone wrong as one of the agents is assassinated whilst climbing up a cliff face. This is where we first see Dalton as Bond with an extreme close up of him witnessing the murder. He quickly gives chase after the assassin landing on a Land Rover full of explosives (pretty Bond-y so far). The Land Rover eventually falls off a cliff, Bond pulls the reserve parachute and lands on a yacht with a half-naked lady.
8/10 - An explosive car chase, a parachute jump and landing on a boat with a beautiful woman sipping champagne? Dalton couldn't have dreamed of a better set up for his first outing as Bond.