Chateau Lloyd

I'm continuing to work through my James Bond dvd boxed set, and have now finished the Timothy Dalton era.  I like Dalton as an actor, but he's clearly not cut out to be Bond.  He's tough enough, but has zero charm.  

That's fine for some films, and he's got a tough guy aura, which some women may find attractive, but he's better as an assassin or villain than a hero.  He just doesn't come off as able to pull off Bond-level deception, breezily lying about who he is.

And the movies convey this.  The Living Daylights is pretty dull, clearly an attempt to tone down some of the excesses of the Roger Moore period (Moonraker comes to mind).  The problem is that the "grim, gritty" take is not much fun to watch, and it's undermined by the usual gadgetry.

License to Kill is more of a return to form, but again, it's a revenge film, not a spy picture.  Dalton does a casino scene so he can meet the villain, but the deception is really short-lived.  I like the return of Bond babes in slinky outfits, and I thought the idea of Bond stealing a bunch of cartel cash and living his best life with it would have made a full movie, rather than just a couple of scenes.  Cut out the whole Felix Leiter bit, and just do that, which would be fun.

Basically, do the season cliffhanger from Miami Vice, where Sonny Crockett loses himself in his gangster alter ego.  Having a British dude become a drug lord would be great.

Or could be, if you had someone other than Dalton doing it.