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Year
1989
Runtime
133 min.
Director
John Glen
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rating *
6.6
Votes *
60,387
Checks
10,537
Favs
184
Dislikes
74
Favs/checks
1.7% (1:57)
Favs/dislikes
2:1
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  1. DisneyStitch's avatar

    DisneyStitch

    If nothing else, I appreciated this entry in the Bond series for the sole reason that 007 goes rogue, a concept that always intrigues me in spy movies and the like. The action sequences are pretty good and Carey Lowell plays an interesting hard-hitting type of Bond girl. 8 years 2 months ago
  2. Siskoid's avatar

    Siskoid

    Licence to Kill completes Timothy Dalton's all-too-brief tour of duty as 007. Though analysts say audiences never accepted his "angry" Bond (in other words, he should play better today), I don't think that's what actually crashed the franchise for 6 years. Rather, I think his era of Bond wasn't different ENOUGH, even if Dalton's performance was a departure from Moore's. The Living Daylights still had some of the jokey humor, and having venerable Bond director John Glen still at the helm gives the film a dated feel. Camera angles are very conservative, sets are flatly lit, etc. I don't think it's his fault necessarily - many films from 1989 look like that - but it shows no willingness to take risks at the movie-making level. If they were really taking risks, Felix Leiter wouldn't have survived getting eaten by a shark (there's a Fonzie joke to be made here, I think). Personally, I quite like Licence to Kill. The stunt work is high-end as usual. The Colombian drug lord villain, definitely a product of its time, is well played, with some humor to be had from Wayne Newton's modern-day Aztec priest. I can't stand Anthony Zerbe in anything, so he's the one I'd cut out of the film. Carey Lowell is an excellent Bond girl, a smart and resourceful agent in her own right, always better than the bimbos in distress Bond is so often stuck with. And if you believe in multiple agents who take on the 007 identity, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why a new man is in the tux by GoldenEye. 8 years 9 months ago
  3. danisanna's avatar

    danisanna

    Timothy Dalton plays a different kind of Bond. A bit more emotionally expressive and less robotic. Different, but I liked it. The CIA lady kicked ass. I love a strong leading lady in contrast to the usual I-need-saving Bond girl. 10 years 6 months ago
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