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......and the Bond movie that got me interested in the Bond series. Just for that reason alone, I would give this movie 5 stars. This is a very underrated movie. If I had just strictly seen the Pierce Brosnan Bond movies like most of my friends, it is doubtful I would have become a Bond fan or at least nearly as big of a Bond fan as I am now. This movie is different. Bond shows some real emotion in this movie. Bond is upset and angry but still doesn't defeat his adversaries through just anger like a lot of other action movie characters. Bond still uses his intellect to defeat his foes. But the way Bond uses his intellect to defeat his foes is different in this movie than in the other Bond movies. Timothy Dalton is awesome. Maybe the Roger Moore fans wouldn't agree with me on that one. But Dalton is the second best Bond ever (behind the legendary Sean Connery of course). But the distance between Connery and Dalton and the rest of the guys who have played Bond is so great (I hope to see where Daniel Craig ranks in there in a couple months). And to the people who criticize this movie because of its low budget-you guys should watch the Special Features of the Licence To Kill DVD. It's very understandable why this movie had to operate on a low budget. Even with the low budget, this movie is still awesome.
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This film ranks with "Dr. No," "From Russia With Love" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Not since those films has James Bond on screen come as close to Ian Fleming's character. What makes this film stand out is that it combines the best elements of the three films sited. Both "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love" contained images to the grittiest side of James Bond. In "Dr. No" the execution style death of Professor Dent and the gruesome knife killing of the guard in the swamp were both disturbing demonstrating a cruel edge to our hero. In "From Russia With Love" the struggle between Bond and Grant aboard the Orient Express was filmed in a more realistic style, not so much for cinematic flair but for realism. Beginning to explore the personal side of James Bond "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" really gives us an in-depth study of an agent who is starting to take account of his life and what future that profession offers him. "Licence to Kill" resurrects and combines the best elements of these three previous films.
Timothy Dalton totally revamps his first interpretation of James Bond for this film. In "The Living Daylights" we got a 1960's Bond but slightly more serious. In "Licence to Kill" Dalton closes out the decade of the 90's with a more up to date Bond. Notions of fair play and "Queen and Country" were given up long ago and all that one is left with is a sense of loyalty only to those close to him. What we are left with is an agent "on the edge" who is willing to take the battle to the enemy with "an eye for an eye" and to hell with anybody who gets in his way. The script lets us down in this respect but through the brilliant subdued performance by Dalton the idea still comes across. Also, a great piece of casting of Benicio Del Toro as devoted henchman Dario gives the audience the push it needed to see that this bunch of despicable villains really get their comeuppance from Bond. Michael Kamen's downbeat score also adds to the grimness of this film and the dirty business that our hero deals in on a daily basis and the toll it has taken on his psyche. This is a very different kind of Bond movie, bold in many respects and somewhat disturbing. There have been many strong reactions to this film. You either like it or you don't. If you examine the three Brosnan films, they contain many elements, which explore and owe inspiration from "Licence to Kill." "Licence to Kill" demands your attention.
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Timothy Dalton's James Bond career lasted all of two movies, and I, for one, think it a shame. The late 1980s Bond was different - sex scenes edited and now implied (this was due to the pending AIDS crisis), Bond more vicious, escapes even more ridiculous than before, and a not-as-handsome (but still good-looking) protagonist, Welsh actor Dalton.
Time was not very kind to this movie. It had the misfortune of being released the same summer as the long (and I mean LONG) awaited release of "Batman" (the Michael Keaton one), "Lethal Weapon 2" (admittedly one of the best sequels of all-time) and even "Harry Met Sally." In fact, no Bond movie since this one was released in the summer.
The movie begins with a Cuban drug lord named Franz Sanchez suspecting his girl is cheating in the Bahamas. The lover hires a guy to watch outside for Sanchez, and the guard falls asleep. Franz and his henchmen strangle the guard, then Franz enters the room. The lover has prepared for this, though, putting a pistol on the night stand to kill the man. Franz drills the pistol perfectly and the two henchmen beat up the man. Franz then promises his own lover, Lupee, the cheater's heart. Outside, they remove the heart from the still living lover - and Franz is hated by all.
On the way to his wedding, CIA agent Felix Lighter is tracked down by the DEA. They take him along as a hunter to get Sanchez, and with Bond's help they bring him in. Lighter then parachutes into his own wedding with Bond in tow. The theme plays, and we're at the reception.
Bond prepares to go to Istanbul when he sees a number of cops running around the airport. While he slept, a two million dollar bribe by Sanchez has one of Lighter's pals help him escape from maximum security. Lighter is kidnapped while his new wife is raped and whacked. Lighter is fed to a shark and then left for dead. Bond vows vengeance and opens up the proverbial can of whoop ass through the rest of the movie with the help of the future Mrs. Richard Gere, Pam Bouvier (portrayed by Carrie Lowell), a former contras pilot.
Using her legal skills from Law and Order, Bouvier and Bond destroy the drug making factory in Panama after Bond is on the inside as one of Sanchez's friends. He convinces Sanchez that his right hand man, Milton Krest, has stolen money and bribed someone to kill Sanchez. This works due to some Oriental narcotics officers who wind up dead in Bonds' place. And Sanchez kills Krest really cool, too, cranking up the pressure in a hyperbaric chamber and then releasing it by opening a leak in the hose with an axe; Krest explodes and you hear his head pop against the side of the chamber. This gives rise to the humorus line, "What do we do with the money, amigo?" To which Sanchez replies, classicly, "Launder it."
In the end, Bond whacks Sanchez by setting the kerosene soaked drug lord on fire with a gift appropriately given to him by Felix and his new wife, Della, at the reception.
This movie followed the traditional Bond formula of most of the movies:
1. A friend of Bond's gets whacked, usually an agent
2. Bond vows revenge.
3. He sleeps with girl number one, who gets popped in a strange way.
4. He gets information from girl one and gets closer to the bad guy.
5. He sleeps with girl two, who always happens to be the bad guy's woman.
6. A shark attacks somebody
7. Bond offs the guy in a most unusual way like blowing up a Goodyear blimp over the Super Bowl using Superman's X-ray vision and two sticks like a Boy Scout.
This follows the pattern except for number three happens later in the movie.
A good flick - you'll like it.
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I Lofe this movie. Next to Goldeneye this is my second favorite Bond. This is the way Flemming designed Bond. Gritty and not caring. Sean Connery is great, but that is not the bond from the books. Licence to kill is fast paced and keeps you on the edge of your seat. It is just to bad that Dalton didnt come back for a third one. Deffinatly check this out, you will not be dissapointed.
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NOTICE:Since this was a edit,I couldn't change the stars so I'll just say three out of five stars.
The producers said they wanted to make a Bond film closer to a Fleming novel, they got Miami Vice instead.A potentionally interesting concept is never really used well at all, Bond quitting MI6 and going rogue to kill Franz Sanchez, a drug lord who nearly killed Felix Lieter and killed Lieter's wife. Licence To Kill is an example of how you shouldn't have a ultra dark Bond film, just like you shouldn't have a ultra campy one like Diamonds Are Forever. There should be a balance of reality of fantasy in Bond films, this is what made the books so great and the early films. The very thought that LTK was like a Fleming novel is pure nonsense. Franz Sanchez and his henchman Dario are simply in the wrong film, they missed Scarface by six years. Don't get me wrong, Shanchez was a menacing and smart villian and Dario was a good henchman but,like this movie, they are way too serious and Sanchez reminds too much of Tony Montana.
Dalton is way too emotional in this film,you ever wonder how such a hot head whould have got into MI6 in the first place. Bond, in the books, never was an emotional character. Even when Bond allies got killed in the Fleming novels, he never acted like a raving mad man like Dalton dose in LTK.Dalton took the role of James Bond too seriously in this film and he's a far cry of Fleming's Bond, maintaining discipline and calmness but also vengeful. The only time Bond actually ever snapped in the novels was when he killed Blofeld in You Only Live Twice, but during the novel he was still calm and not a mad man like Dalton was in LTK.
The director of LTK, John Glen, was alway's third rate but here it really shows. Glen shoots these scenes like a TV show, not a film with exeception of the well done tanker chase. The viewer never really absorbs the atmposhere of the locations during the film at all. This entire film feels ways too claustrophobic, like it was made inside of a matchbox.
As I said before,the plot was done very badly.I will admit that Dalton quitting MI6 was a great scene and Robert Brown gave his best preformance of M yet, but the factor Bond going rogue was not taken advantage at all. Bond dose get caught by MI6 agents at one point but by amazing luck, he escapes when Sanchez un-intentionally rescues him. Sanchez warmed up to Bond way too easily, he was accepted him without any knowledge of who he really was. Sanchez didn't find out who Bond was until the third act , hell even Karl Stromberg found out who Bond was far earlier in The Spy Who Loved Me.The factor of Bond going rogue barely palyed a part in this film.
There is praise for Q biggest role yet in LTK but really it was nothing to speak of, his appearance really wasn't neccesary at all and out of character.Q whould never go out and help rogue MI6 agents even it was Bond. Q's appearance was simply tacked on just like the badly written casino scene, it was so forced and un-natural and Dalton came off as way too tense, not calm and confident like Bond should be in a casino. I honestly think that the writers finished the entire script and then said "we forgot Q and let's put in a casino scene too".As a matter of fact, Q gadgets barely aided Bond in this film.
LTK had a few redeeming qualities. Carey Lowell as the beautiful Pam Bouvier was a strong character and was a great ally to Bond,she is one of eth graet Bodn girls. I also like the fact that David Hedison returned to role of Felix Lieter, . Also, the pacing was decent and there was a nice finale with Tanker chase though Bond's final confrontation with Shanchez is anti-climatic. Overall, a Bond film that tried to be more like Fleming but ultimately failed.
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