Bond Retrospective: "License To Kill"
Released: 1989
Actor: Timothy Dalton
Villain: Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi)
Henchman: Krest, Dario
Allies: Felix Leiter, Sharkey
Bond Girl: Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell), Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto)
First Appearance: Q as a field agent
Precredits sequence: Enroute to Felix's wedding, a drug kingpin named Sanchez is located in the US. With Bond's assistance, Felix captures the man in time to parachute to his wedding.
Plot: Sanchez is captured, and Felix gets married. However, the cop Felix trusted betrays him, freeing Sanchez for $2 million, and Sanchez takes revenge, killing Felix's wife and feeding Felix's leg to a shark. Bond wants revenge, but M strips away his license to kill. Bond goes rogue, and tracks Sanchez to the island of isthmus. There, he infiltrates inside, and meets with former army pilot Pam, who assists him in taking down Sanchez at the end.
Thoughts: Much, much better than I remember it. I wrote of the dalton films before as boring and bland, but they're pretty good. They're more plot oriented, this one w a bit more character-driven, showing Bond's need to avenge his friend. It's is what we needed after OHMSS, not that short precredits revenge sequence in DAF. Benicia del Toro was rather standout as an evil henchman. And it's a bit atypical, Bond going rogue, and dealing with the drug trade. Although, the drug thing was covered in LALD. Overall, good movie, and it would've been interesting to see more of Dalton in the role. It took six years for the next film, Goldeneye.
Actor: Timothy Dalton
Villain: Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi)
Henchman: Krest, Dario
Allies: Felix Leiter, Sharkey
Bond Girl: Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell), Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto)
First Appearance: Q as a field agent
Precredits sequence: Enroute to Felix's wedding, a drug kingpin named Sanchez is located in the US. With Bond's assistance, Felix captures the man in time to parachute to his wedding.
Plot: Sanchez is captured, and Felix gets married. However, the cop Felix trusted betrays him, freeing Sanchez for $2 million, and Sanchez takes revenge, killing Felix's wife and feeding Felix's leg to a shark. Bond wants revenge, but M strips away his license to kill. Bond goes rogue, and tracks Sanchez to the island of isthmus. There, he infiltrates inside, and meets with former army pilot Pam, who assists him in taking down Sanchez at the end.
Thoughts: Much, much better than I remember it. I wrote of the dalton films before as boring and bland, but they're pretty good. They're more plot oriented, this one w a bit more character-driven, showing Bond's need to avenge his friend. It's is what we needed after OHMSS, not that short precredits revenge sequence in DAF. Benicia del Toro was rather standout as an evil henchman. And it's a bit atypical, Bond going rogue, and dealing with the drug trade. Although, the drug thing was covered in LALD. Overall, good movie, and it would've been interesting to see more of Dalton in the role. It took six years for the next film, Goldeneye.
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