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List Price: $9.94 | | Label: CBS/Fox Home Video
Salesrank: 2919
Released: October 19, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape |
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Editorial Review:
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
Bond: License to Kill Reviews:
license to kill 
2008-09-14 - This product arrived as it was described on the web site. it arrived in a timely fashion and was packed well to prevent damage. I am very happy with the price and purchase, the condition of the disc and the timely arrival.
Nice film 
2008-09-09 - Tim's second 007, but he should have done one more. This flick moves fast, looks sleek, delivers the usual Bond formula and Tim lets us know he is a Bond not to be taken lightly. It strays a bit from the others, in that Bond is driven by revenge, not a lesson for the kids who follow the Bonds, but, then again, isn't that what a dirty business killer agents do for a living at times?
Some like it, some don't... 
2008-08-08 - I have watched the whole JB series in chronological order several times now. I have not reviewed each one on Amazon, but felt compelled to advise others about License to Kill. I have cringed each time it's time to view this movie, and have decided to rarely if ever watch it again.
Why?
Well, first of all, a disclosure. I like Roger Moore's Bond. I like Sean Connery too. I like the silly 1960's special effects for what they are, and the gadgets, the girls, the whole semi-unrealistic but fun plot devices and production values. But as you may have read in other reviews, this movie deviates from all of those.
The opening theme, looking down the gun barrel is awful. The unnecessary and disgusting "give her his heart" scene gave me nightmares in 1989 and still is bothersome. The lack of an MI6-backed mission is uninteresting. And why, oh why, does Felix Leiter get knocked-off every few films, then magically brought back to life? (or in this case, half-eaten)
Yes, I know, Ian Fleming's novels are grittier than the films. One Amazon reviewer noted the shark scene is right out of the novel "Live and Let Die". Well, that is another one of my least-liked Bond films, and for much the same reason I don't like this film. The sense of death and maiming is palpable. The good guy doesn't really win. Europeans sometimes are said to like tragedy versus redemption. Maybe, but you have to be interested in the characters, and I'm not in this film -- or at least the characters that are still alive.
Some people would point out that all Bond films are not exactly supposed to be harmless romps through the playground, but this is all about entertainment, not about how close can we make a movie that mimics what Columbia drug lords really have done to people in graphic detail. It's too bad for Dalton, who's acting is quite respectable.
So, if by some chance you are a Bond fan and still haven't seen this film, hopefully the above will allow some manner for you to interpret the feel of this movie. But I would rather watch the off-kilter Never Say Never Again than License To Kill.
Licence to Kill! 
2008-05-27 - one of timothy dalton's better efforts and the missing movie from my now complete Bond collection.
Dalton grows into the character
2008-02-16 - "The Living Daylights" was a disappointment. But in "Licence to Kill", Timothy Dalton grew into the character and made it his own rather than trying to mimick Roger Moore. It's a darker James Bond than before, this time motivated by revenge. The story is less extravagant than some of the earlier movies - the villain is no super terrorist or megalomaniac but a South American drug lord - but the action is great. Robert Davi is a good villian and a young Benicio del Toro plays one of his henchmen. It is a pity Dalton quit after this movie. It would have been interesting to see more of him as Bond.
