And boy did he give it a hard push. The characters in Licence To Kill are one of it's major plus points. James Bond is the most human we have seen him in 20 years, as Dalton brings a real sense emotional depth to the character; a tortured man full of hurt and pain and vengeance, his determined and stony face almost cracking with the burning hatred that is barely contained inside of him. We also get a strong female lead with Carey Lowell, whose portrayal of Pam Bouvier is at once intelligent, sexy, and funny.
On the flip side of the coin, we have a genuinely terrifying villain in the shape of Robert Davi, playing his role deadly straight with not a hint of camp. It's a rare scenario where you feel Bond has met someone of equal competence. The Sanchez character is a frightening presence, and an early role from Benicio Del Toro is just as effective; his chilling grin a fear-inducing sight. The brilliant Michael Kamen also supplies us with an elegant, sensual and brooding score that is a vital player unto itself, complimenting the visuals excellently.
In spite of these pluses, there are some minor quibbles. As I said before, the truck finale is perhaps a bit long, even though the stunt work is amazing, but it does slow the pace a bit. Talisa Soto is indeed beautiful as Sanchez' girlfriend but, bless her, she isn't exactly the most talented actress on the planet. She plays her part well enough, but the role isn't exactly Oscar-worthy, and it's not helped by the fact that the script tends to relegate her to the sidelines.
Everett McGill's cigar-chomping Killifer is rather too pantomime for me - he just doesn't stand up to the characters of Sanchez or Anthony Zerbe's Krest but he doesn't stick around long so doesn't get in the way too much. With a striking leading man in Bond's shoes, Licence To Kill deserves a lot more credit than it gets.
This is the film that broke the mould, opening the doors to a more adult, violent Bond world that continued briefly with some of the Brosnan films and certainly with Daniel Craig's portrayal of the character.
In Timothy Dalton we have a brilliant actor in the starring role who brought us a more human and believable Bond, yet it is Daniel Craig who is currently getting the credit for these exact traits. Don't get me wrong, his characterisation is superb. But Dalton is the one who started it off, and it is a shame that he only made the two films.
John Glen says that from all of the Bond movies that he directed, Licence To Kill is the one he is most proud of. And rightly so. Not only do we get a more fleshed-out character in Bond than previous outings, we get a more believable and mature storyline, with great characters and competent direction.
Definitely one of the most underrated Bond movies, this engaging film is a great piece of entertainment, and one that I hope will gather praise with time. See it. See which films have received the highest ratings from IMDb users. FAQ What is 'Licence to Kill' about? Is 'Licence to Kill' based on an Ian Fleming book?
Who sings the title song? Gun use and fighting. Some drinking. Overall, Licence To Kill is brilliant, dark and gory but nothing too distressing. Very great! Great final action set-piece, but otherwise an okay Bond feature that glorifies ultraviolence. A woman dances seductively in a thong. A man kills himself with a cyanide capsule. It has a considerable amount of gore compared to it's other features. A man's heart is cut out off screen, and his lover is whipped and beaten.
People are often shot point blank with guns, often with blood spurting out far away. A man is hit in the face with a rifle and his car drives off the road and explodes, we see his bloodied corpse for a few seconds.
Bond kills several people in one scene, one of them by throwing maggots in a man's face and throwing him into a maggot tank where he suffocates, one of them by pushing him into an electric eel tank where he dies by electrocution, and the final one by pushing him into a shark tank where he is partially eaten alive on screen, with blood covering the water and money. A woman's corpse is shown.
Dead bodies at a ship are shown. A man is killed by a spear. Bond shoots a man with a harpoon gun. Bond throws a man out of a plane. Several people are crushed by debris and shot. A man is choked to death and shot several times; he gushes out spit and blood. A man is thrown in a compression tank where the pressure builds up and his face explodes, with blood getting on the window for about five seconds. A man is shown with a fork lift stabbed through his body, his corpse has dried blood on it.
The drug lord's palace is blown up. The final tanker chase involves tons of death by guns, trucks colliding and exploding, stab wounds, and a truck falling off a cliff. Sanchez is finally apprehended by being lit on fire and the fuel truck exploding, the smoke turns red with blood as his screams eventually die out as the explosion occurs. Positive Messages: None. Watching Experience: Saw it the age of 10 and was horrified by Dario's death and surprised by how violent it was. Quality opinionated : An okay film throughout, and definitely a violent one.
However, the ending action sequence is one of the greatest Bond moments ever, and it's worth a watch just for that.
My rating PG For intense sequences of violent action throughout, some graphic bloody images, drug use, sensual content, and some language. One of if not the worst Bond movies Not a very good Bond movie terrible acting but great job Timothy Dalton for doing his own stunts ridiculous violence but slightly disturbing towards the end including a head exploding into blood, a man getting thrown into a rock smasher and a man getting impaled by a fork lift.
Violence could be seen by a 12 year old, but really not worth watching. Anthony Zerbe. Frank McRae. Everett McGill. Professor Joe Butcher. Wayne Newton. Benicio Del Toro. Anthony Starke. President Hector Lopez.
Desmond Llewelyn. Felix Leiter. David Hedison. Della Churchill. This was actually the first EON Productions entry to use a title not derived from either a novel or a short story by Ian Fleming. Meanwhile, DEA agents spot drug lord Franz Sanchez flying into Key West, Florida, where he catches his mistress in bed with another man ; in retaliation for her infidelity, he has his henchmen cut out the man's heart while he brutally whips his mistress. The pair successfully capture Sanchez by pulling his plane out of the air with a Coast Guard helicopter and then parachute down to Leiter's wedding.
Later that same day, DEA agent Killifer assists Sanchez in escaping federal custody, lured by Sanchez's promise of two million dollars for whoever aids him in escaping. On their honeymoon night, Leiter and his new wife, Della , are captured by Sanchez's enforcer Dario and several of Sanchez's henchmen.
In retaliation for Sanchez's capture and imprisonment, Leiter is bound and lowered into a shark tank; the shark bites off the lower half of one of his legs. After hearing the news of Sanchez's escape, Bond returns to Leiter's house to find Della in her wedding dress, dead.
In the study, Bond finds Felix, maimed but still alive, bearing a note from Sanchez: "He disagreed with something that ate him. Bond begins his revenge by killing Killifer, causing him to fall into the same tank with the shark which maimed Felix; he then ruins Sanchez's latest drug shipment and steals five million dollars from Sanchez to finance his exploits.
Bond refuses, but M insists that Bond take the Turkey mission, claiming that Bond's vendetta could easily compromise the British government. Refusing to let the matter go, Bond subsequently resigns and M orders his resignation effective immediately, revoking his licence to kill. Bond then escapes MI6 custody and becomes a rogue agent, bereft of official backing but later surreptitiously helped by MI6 armourer Q , who voluntarily joins Bond while pretending to be on leave. Bond journeys to the Latin American country of "The Republic of Isthmus " closely based on real-life Panama , where he finds his way into Sanchez's employ at the cost of the lives of several Hong Kong narcotics agents and the MI6 agent in Isthmus.
Sanchez punishes this perceived disloyalty by trapping Krest in a hyperbaric chamber and then suddenly depressurizing the chamber with a fire axe, causing Krest to explode in bloody fashion; for Bond's perceived loyalty, Sanchez permits him into his inner circle of friends.
Sanchez takes him to his base, where Bond learns that Sanchez's scientists can render cocaine chemically undetectable by dissolving it in gasoline, and then sell it disguised as fuel to Asian drug dealers. The buying and selling are conducted via the fundraising television programs of the fake American televangelist Professor Joe Butcher. The re-integration process will be available to those underworld clients who can pay Sanchez's price. With the aid of agent Bouvier, Bond destroys Sanchez's processing plant; in the process, Bond kills Dario by feeding him into a massive cocaine grinder.
After destroying three of the trucks, Bond and Sanchez fight aboard the final remaining tanker, which ends up out of control and then rolls down a hillside. Although Sanchez has the upper hand by having Bond at the point of his machete, Bond pulls out a cigarette lighter; Leiter's gift to Bond for being the best man at their wedding and sets Sanchez afire. Sanchez, burning alive, stumbles into the wrecked tanker truck's cistern, causing its cocaine-gasoline to explode.
Later, Bond, Bouvier and Q are attending a party at Sanchez's residence. Bond takes a telephone call from Felix, informing him that M is offering Bond his job back. Bond doesn't give Felix an answer, but instead pursues agent Bouvier into the pool, where they kiss as the credits roll. Michael G. Wilson was forced to finish the screenplay alone due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America which prevented Richard Maibaum from participating further.
For Maibaum, this was his final James Bond script, later dying in
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