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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Licence to Kill

Timothy Dalton's second and final turn as James Bond could possibly be the worst in the whole series.
In the 16th chapter of the series, Bond has his licence to kill revoked as he pursues a drug lord by the name of Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi), who attacked his CIA friend Feliz Leiter and had Leiter's wife killed on their honeymoon.
The whole thing is pretty a shimozzle and better off forgotten.
Where The Living Daylights got better with every view, there was no saving Licence to Kill.
The idea of him being suspended by MI6 is a great one, and the whole "revenge" plot can work very well, like they did in For Your Eyes Only. In this instance however, the execution was well off. So far off that there isn't even a single scene that I could mention that was exciting, though the scene where Bond drives a fuel tanker on a diagonal. That was impressive.
The only good part of the film is the song. Gladys Knight smashes out a masterpiece that earned itself a spot in the British Top 10. 
The film, however, was simply dull. Sorry Mr Dalton.

Licence to Kill (1989): 133 minutes
Bond Songs: Licence to Kill by Gladys Knight

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