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The Living Daylights (1987)
★ 6.5 · 2,014 ratings on TMDB
The new James Bond...living on the edge.
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
DirectorJohn Glen
The emergence reading
The Living Daylights keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceGB
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