Timothy Dalton also gets a under-appreciated as he plays Bond more like an assassin like in the books and I do like his more cold take on bond which is why I rate him third in my list of Bonds.

They should have brought him in earlier for the film For Your Eyes Only. That film begged to have someone like Dalton as the lead, as it was pretty gritty and Bond is depicted as the ruthless assassin as he is, which did not meld well with Moore's more lackadaisical approach to the character in the previous films.