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Licence to Kill

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James Bond (Timothy Dalton) takes on his most-daring adventure after he turns renegade and tracks down one of the international drug cartel's most-brutal and powerful leaders. After the murder of his just-married friend, he is fighting not only for country and justice, but for personal revenge!
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License to Kill is darker than many of the other Bond entries, with Timothy Dalton playing the character with intensity, but it still has some solid chases and fight scenes.

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Leonard Maltin Video Review 08/05/2022
3/4
Licence to Kill is just the shot in the arm the James Bond series has been needing. Go to Full Review
Chris Stuckmann ChrisStuckmann.com 04/13/2020
B+
I think it's very underrated. Go to Full Review
Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times 05/20/2014
Every once in a while, [the Bond series] pulls in its stomach, pops the gun from its cummerbund, arches its eyebrow and gets off another bull's-eye. The newest, Licence to Kill, is probably one of the five or six best of Bond. Go to Full Review
Sarah Cortinaz InSession Film 04/23/2024
Many may have forgotten Dalton’s time as the iconic agent, but whether you remember him or not, it’s worth sinking your teeth into. Go to Full Review
Tom Ryan The Sunday Age 07/25/2023
It's helped by Sanchez, its wonderful villain, simultaneously sadistic and principled, played as Bond's opposite with a superbly sinister aloofness by Robert Davi. And the ending is suitably spectacular. Go to Full Review
Carson Timar ButteredPopcorn 08/28/2022
B-
This is far from a terrible movie as it is easy to sit through and has plenty of enjoyable moments but it also isn't well balanced enough to be a classic. Go to Full Review
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Frank 10/12/2022 The usual unbelevable mess James gets into, with an inevitable bruised and lacerated successful result. Acting is superb to point of making the crazy show believable! See more andrea C @Charst 1d Secondo ed ultimo atto di Dalton come Bond, dove la mancanza di carisma pesa oltremodo nell'economia della sceneggiatura che, per la prima volta, vede Bond come privato cittadino senza i consueti aiuti dei governi. La vendetta privata è emotivamente potente nella fase iniziale, salvo poi essere totalmente dimenticata con il passare dei minuti; diventando di fatto un contorno poco importante per invece un solito film di azione con un villain tanto spietato quanto poco lucido. Alla fine dei conti, il film probabilmente denota una carenza di idee che lascia in dote lo stop più lungo tra un film e l'altro per l'intera saga. See more keven Q @kevenquinlan Mar 1 Ok, this is the 2nd and last Dalton film, this one is Much better, in all the ways his first wasn't. As much as Dalton is decent, he simply doesn't have the panache or suave that a Bond needs. Still a pretty good movie but he was hard to believe as Bond- it just is what it is. See more Alec B @Alec97 Feb 9 It's an interesting setup for a Bond movie, one that promises something different but only partially delivers (it's cool to see so much of Q but the gadgets do seem out of place here). Additionally, the PG-13 rating is pushed to the absolute limit here. Too bad we didn't get more of Dalton as Bond as he always seemed to offer something interesting. See more Carlos T @RT67858720 Jan 28 *Permissão Para Matar* é, sem exagero, um dos filmes mais ousados e maduros da franquia James Bond. Aqui não existe ameaça nuclear, conspiração global ou Guerra Fria como motor principal. O conflito é íntimo, pessoal e visceral. Bond quebra regras, desafia o MI6 e age movido por vingança após a brutal destruição da vida de Felix Leiter. Essa mudança de foco torna o filme mais cru, mais humano e infinitamente mais perigoso. Franz Sanchez é, para muitos, o **melhor vilão da era clássica de Bond**. Cruel, frio, calculista e impiedoso, ele não quer dominar o mundo — quer poder, dinheiro e controle absoluto. Robert Davi constrói um antagonista que realmente mete medo, alguém à altura de Bond não pelo intelecto megalomaníaco, mas pela brutalidade realista. Destaque também para um jovem **Benicio del Toro**, intenso e ameaçador mesmo em início de carreira. O filme com a maior participação Q, mesmo com a idade, manda muito bem. Nota final:** **9,5 See more Stephen C @bob25009 Jan 25 The worldwide gross is $156,200,000.00 over a budget of $32,000,000.00. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis James Bond (Timothy Dalton) takes on his most-daring adventure after he turns renegade and tracks down one of the international drug cartel's most-brutal and powerful leaders. After the murder of his just-married friend, he is fighting not only for country and justice, but for personal revenge!
Director
John Glen
Producer
Michael G. Wilson, Albert R. Broccoli
Screenwriter
Richard Maibaum
Distributor
United Artists
Production Co
United Artists, Danjaq Productions
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 14, 1989, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 1, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$34.7M
Runtime
2h 13m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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