Licence To Kill
1989
In LICENCE TO KILL, James Bond (Timothy Dalton) quits Her Majesty's Secret Service to go after a drug kingpin (Anthony Zerbe) who brutalised a fellow agent and his new bride. This 16th 007 installment is one of the best in the series and the first not based on an Ian Fleming story. Dalton makes his final appearance as Bond in .. Read more
| Starring | Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto |
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| Director | John Glen |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Licence To Kill
In LICENCE TO KILL, James Bond (Timothy Dalton) quits Her Majesty's Secret Service to go after a drug kingpin (Anthony Zerbe) who brutalised a fellow agent and his new bride. This 16th 007 installment is one of the best in the series and the first not based on an Ian Fleming story. Dalton makes his final appearance as Bond in the film; the following 007 outing, GOLDENEYE, features Pierce Brosnan as the dashing secret agent.
| Starring | Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe |
|---|---|
| Director | John Glen |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 7 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 03 Nov 2003 Production year: 1989 |
| Format | DVD |
Licence To Kill (1989)
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Without SMERSH or SPECTRE to outwit (this was the era of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost, after all), James Bond turned his attention to big-time drug barons. Timothy Dalton phones in his performance, Desmond Llewelyn is given his biggest role to date and there's a spectacular chase with an oil tanker, but the relentless violence and lack of sexual conquests make this more of a Lethal Weapon than a Bond movie. The title was to have been Licence Revoked until market research implied that Americans didn't know what “revoked” meant. Anyway, when 007 does get his licence revoked, he's asked to hand over his gun. “Then it's a farewell to arms,” he says to “M” in the garden of Hemingway's home in Key West. It's a rare moment of style in a jaded effort.
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"...A script that makes [Bond] fit for the 90's....Lowell becomes the most playful, modern Bond heroine in years..."
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
GREAT STORY,BUT NOT BOND
This movie has Bond at his most desperate. when Felix Leiter's wife
is murdered and Felix is mauled by a mad shark then Bond is on a mission to catch the man responsible who happens to be a south american drug dealer named Franz Sanchez. traveling through South America to stop Sanchez. The part of Felix Leiter getting his leg ripped off by a shark is nicked from the a scene in the book version of ' Live And Let Die' by Ian Fleming.
Franz Sanchez's hitman Dario{Benicio Del Toro} is pretty nasty too. Talisa Soto plays Sanchez's beat up mistress Lupe Lamora. Cary Elwes plays CIA agent Pam Bouvier. great movie but not of the bond formula. but a very great way to say goodbye to Dalton's Bond. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Dalton still has it,
Timothy Dalton romps through this film in complete style, and we find that he was originaly asked to play the part of bond before Roger Moore, i wonder what the Moore films would have been like had it been Dalton.
The most down to earth Bond in the history of the part, well worth a look. -
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Moore eyes Dr Who role
- 05 Sep 2009
Bond legend Sir Roger Moore is vying for a guest spot on Dr Who - after learning his 007 protege Timothy Dalton has landed a part in a forthcoming Christmas special. Dalton, who took over the reigns from Moore in 1987 to play the suave superspy in The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill, is set to appear in the cult sci-fi show as the mysterious character The Narrator in December (09). After hearing his replacement was to star in the show, Moore has offered himself up to play Dalton's father. Read more
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Licence To Kill
In LICENCE TO KILL, James Bond (Timothy Dalton) quits Her Majesty's Secret Service to go after a drug kingpin (Anthony Zerbe) who brutalised a fellow agent and his new bride. This 16th 007 installment is one of the best in the series and the first not based on an Ian Fleming story. Dalton makes his ...
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