Licence to Kill (1989)
Directed by John Glen
this is the 16th film in the Bond franchise and stars
Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell and Robert Davi. After the mauling of
his good friend Felix Leiter, Bond goes it alone in the hunt for
revenge against a drug dealer.
While the plot for
this film is one of the more sensible ones given the excesses of the
previous Moore run the plot is rather basic. Where the film does fall
down is in comparison to For Your Eyes Only (1981) where Bond showed
a much more nuanced view of revenge while here that seems to have
gone out the window. Few if any of the action sequences here are on
the level of some of the more iconic that series has thrown up but
over all this is a fairly decent, if average effort.
3/5
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