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DVD Licence To Kill (Special Edition)
Timothy Dalton's second and last shot at playing James Bond isn't nearly as much fun as his debut, two years earlier, in the 1987 The Living Daylights. This time Bond gets mad after a close friend (David Hedison) from the intelligence sector is assassinated on his wedding day, and 007 goes undercover to link the murder to an international drug cartel. Robert Davi makes an interesting adversary, but as with most of the Bond films in the '70s, '80s, and '90s--and especially since the end of the cold war--one has to wonder why we should still care about these lesser villains and their unimaginative crimes. Still, Dalton did manage in his short time with the character to make 007 his own, which neither Roger Moore did nor Pierce Brosnan did. --Tom Keogh
Among the Bond 's film this one possesses a special profile. Bond finds in a true dilemma and moral crossroad. A dangerous drug dealer is caught in a spectacular and hair raising sequence, his pursuit is far to have concluded. The capo evades the long arm of the law, and becomes hunter killing Felix `s wife, in sharp semblance to Bond 's experience in Under his majesty' s secret service and besides leaving to Felix in a true painful state.
Bond decides to assume this fact as a personal affront and decides to follow his own rules. Timothy Dalton returned the original character to Bond after Moore made of Bond a simple cartoon personage.
Kinetic rhythm, unforgettable action sequences and fabulous landscapes, kindle the screen and revitalizes the spirit of this emblematic British Agent. Carey Lowell and Talisa Soto are two exuberant Bond girls; Robert Davi as the Colombian dealer is particularly effective, and John Glenn this veteran director in Bond films behind the camera complete a memorable and well item in this Bond saga.
Timothy Dalton and James Bond at their best.
Licence To Kill will remain one of my favourite James Bond films. Timothy Dalton gives his best performance as Bond. The action is spectacular, the acting is great, brilliant music and fantastic set-pieces- everything a Bond movie should have.
Good if perhaps implausible(3.5 stars)
It's too bad that Timothy Dalton decided to leave the role of James Bond after just 2 films as I thought he was excellent in the part. Of all the actors who've played 007, Dalton strikes you as being the most human, the one you seem to make a connection to.
As for the movie, this isn't one of the best but Dalton's performance really helps to keep it afloat. Also the villian, Sanchez, is perfectly evil and the Bond girls are an interesting mix of strength (Pam Bouvier) and vulnerability (Lupe Lamora). The action is good but this Bond is infamous for being the most violent in the series; a couple of characters are killed off in truly nasty ways. The big flaw in Licence to Kill though is the story, which (as some have mentioned) doesn't seem very feasible in light of the previous movies. Why would Bond want to avenge Felix's near murder and not the death of Tracy? It seems to me if my wife was killed by some thug, I'd sooner go after him than if he just badly banged up a friend.
The motivation for Bond's revenge is kind of stupid in a way but if you take it on it's own, Licence to Kill is a good outing that has a solid human portrayal from Timothy Dalton. He proves that James Bond is a man like us.
Timothy Dalton made his 007 debut in the lean, mean mode of Sean Connery, doing away with the pun-filled camp of Roger Moore's final outings. He establishes his persona right from the gritty pre-credits sequence, in which he hangs from a speeding truck as it barrels down narrow cobblestone streets, battles an assassin mano a mano, and lands in the arms of a bikinied babe. This James Bond is ruthless, tough, and romantic. The Living Daylights, set during the thaw of the cold war, begins with the defection of Russian KGB General Koskov (Jeroen Krabbé) and his revelation of a Soviet plot to eliminate Britain's secret agent force. Assigned to eliminate Koskov's Soviet boss (John Rhys-Davies, cutting a memorable figure in his brief appearance), Bond uncovers a... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Timothy Dalton - Maryam d'Abo Director(s): John Glen (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 17 October 2000 This item is currently not available.
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The British superspy with a license to kill takes on his dark underworld double, a classy assassin who kills with golden bullets at $1 million a hit. Roger Moore, in his second outing as James Bond, meets Christopher Lee's Scaramanga, one of the most magnetic villains in the entire series, in this entertaining but rather wan entry in the 007 sweepstakes. Bond's globetrotting search takes him to Hong Kong, Bangkok, and finally China, where Scaramanga turns his island retreat into a twisted theme park for a deadly game of wits between the gunmen, moderated by Scaramanga's diminutive man Friday Nick Nack (Fantasy Island's Hervé Villechaize). Britt Ekland does her best as the most embarrassingly inept Bond girl in 007 history, a clumsy, dim agent named Mary Goodnight who looks... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Roger Moore - Christopher Lee Director(s): Guy Hamilton DVD Release Date: Released the 22 October 2002 This item is currently not available.
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The 18th James Bond adventure was a runaway box-office success when released in 1995, thanks to the arrival of Pierce Brosnan as the fifth actor (following the departure of Timothy Dalton) to play the suave, danger-loving Agent 007. This James Bond is a bit more vulnerable and psychologically complex--and just a shade more politically correct--but he's still a formally attired playboy at heart, with a lovely Russian beauty (Izabella Scorupco) as his sexy ally against a cadre of renegade Russians bent on--what else?--global domination. There's also a seductive villainous with the suggestive name of Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), and the great actress Judi Dench makes her first appearance as Bond's superior, M, who wisecracks about 007's "dinosaur" status as a globetrotting sexist. All in... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Pierce Brosnan - Sean Bean - Izabella Scorupco Director(s): Martin Campbell DVD Release Date: Released the 22 October 2002 This item is currently not available.
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Pierce Brosnan returns for his second stint as James Bond (after GoldenEye), and he's doing it in high style with an invigorating cast of costars. It's only appropriate that a Bond film from 1997 would find Agent 007 pitted against a media mogul (Jonathan Pryce) who's going to start a global war (beginning with stolen nuclear missiles aimed at China) to create attention-grabbing headlines for his latest multimedia news channel. It's the information age run amok, and Bond must team up with a lovely and lethal agent from the Chinese External Security Force (played by Honk Kong action star Michelle Yeoh) to foil the madman's plot of global domination. Luckily for Bond, the villain's wife (Teri Hatcher) is one of his former lovers, and at the behest of his superior M (Judi Dench), 007... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Pierce Brosnan - Jonathan Pryce - Michelle Yeoh - Teri Hatcher Director(s): Roger Spottiswoode DVD Release Date: Released the 22 October 2002 This item is currently not available.
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The best of the James Bond adventures starring Roger Moore as tuxedoed Agent 007, this globe-trotting thriller introduced the steel-toothed Jaws (played by seven-foot-two-inch-tall actor Richard Kiel) as one of the most memorable and indestructible Bond villains. Jaws is so tenacious, in fact, that Moore looks genuinely frightened, and that adds to the abundant fun. This time Bond teams up with yet another lovely Russian agent (Barbara Bach) to track a pair of nuclear submarines that the nefarious Stromberg (Curt Jürgens) plans to use in his plot to start World War III. Featuring lavish sets designed by the great Ken Adam (Dr. Strangelove), The Spy Who Loved Me is a galaxy away from the suave Sean Connery exploits of the 1960s, but the film works perfectly as grandiose... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Roger Moore - Barbara Bach Director(s): Lewis Gilbert (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 22 October 2002 This item is currently not available.
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