Ben Meyers’ rating: 4.0|5.0
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Licence To Kill keeps
tradition with those over-the-top opening action scenes that audiences have
come to expect as the trademark of a good 007 Bond film. While this film is
almost on par with the previous Timothy Dalton interpretation of Agent 007 in The Living Daylights (1987), this movie
does the same thing that the last Dalton film did to this spy series. It runs
more along a police story’s line than a bona fide spy thriller story. The movie
almost seems to naturally set itself up for a replacement James Bond which does
happen with the casting of Pierce Brosnan as the next James Bond in the 1995
release of GoldenEye and in the 1997 release
of Tomorrow Never Dies.
Storyline
James
Bond (Timothy Dalton) finds himself performing as a rogue agent when his licence
to kill becomes revoked.
Additional Thanks
Thank
you to Director John Glen for directing effort. Thank you to Producers Albert
R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson for making the film possible. Additional
characters/cast include: James Bond (Timothy Dalton), Pam Bouvier (Carey
Lowell), Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi), Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto), Milton Krest
(Anthony Zerbe), Sharkey (Frank McRae), Felix Leiter (David Hedison), Professor
Joe Butcher (Wayne Newton), Dario (Benicio Del Toro), Truman-Lodge (Anthony
Starke), and Ed Killifer (Everett McGill).
Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?
Yes.
While it seems Sean Connery will always stand alone as the quintessential James
Bond (Diamonds Are Forever), for 007 fans
needing a dip into ‘Bond’, the movie will not disappoint and is worth watching.
However, Diamonds Are Forever and Tomorrow Never Dies perform at higher,
quality watches than this movie.
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