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Summary: A great bond film but not the best.
Review: Timothy Dalton as the infoumous 007 this is Timothys best role as bond.Timothy is a great bond making him much better then his debut role in daylights.In here he goes up against an mad Robert Davi after his freind dies. Icredible stunts and action sequences some of wich include a sky dive from a plane to a wedding. A chase through the roadways of mexico with a tractor trailer filled with gasolene.Highly reccomended is Goldeneye and The world Is Not Enough. This dvd is packed with extras on the specal edition commentaries plus other added features a wise choice for any bond fan.
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Summary: Good Bond
Review: I wouldn't say this is the best Bond Movie. But I do like Dalton as James Bond, Dalton should have done more then only 2 bonds already Pierce has 3. Sean did a lot as bond and he was great. Rodger Moore as Bond? I just didn't like him he seemed to old for James Bond I'm glad they gave 007 some youth with Dalton and Pierce. I recomend this to any 007 fans
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Summary: Hamlet of the Bonds
Review: I've seen almost all of Bond movies (except Tomorrow Never Dies) and that's my favourite one. Why? Dalton is a great actor, known from his creations as a Hamlet and he suits perfectly into this role. Sanchez isn't so dangerous for human kind as big bad bosses from other Bond titles. That makes whole story more realistic. I'd love to see Dalton in another Bond.
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Summary: License to Kill
Review: In Dalton's swansong as OO7 in License to Kill,the plot finds Bond operating outside of the British secret service on a personal vendetta.When drug lord Franz Sanchez attacks Felix Leiter and murders his wife, Bond gos after him.Bond eventually finds out that Sanchez is planning to buy two Stinger missiles.Some of the incredible action is a boat chase, a terrific underwater battle, a midair brawl in an out-of-control airplane, a fight at at a drug-producing facility, and an incredible chase in oil tanker trucks.Robert Davi does a good job as Sanchez but my top five villains are Ernst Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever, Emilio Largo in Thunderball, Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger, Max Zorin in A View To a Kill and Ernst Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.Cary Lowell is excellent as DEA operative Pam Bouvier and Talisa Soto is pretty good as Sanchez's girlfriend.There are some beautiful underwater scenes and quite a few sharks.David Hedison plays Felix Leiter for the second time, (he was also in Live and Let Die).I liked the scenes on the WaveKrest.Gladys Knight's title song is good but not one of the best.Dalton does an even better job of acting in this than in The Living Daylights.This is my second favorite OO7 film, beaten out by The World is Not Enough.This was John Glen's last Bond film he directed.I also heavily recommend Thunderball, The Spy who Loved Me, GoldenEye, and Goldfinger.
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Summary: A Noble Failure
Review: I was so excited when I first saw the opening sequence of "The Living Daylights". I thought to myself, "This guy is cool". How wrong I was, as Timothy Dalton's subsequent dead-in-the-water portrayal of Bond would prove to be so lacking in charisma that even a die hard fan such as myself lost faith. In fairness, the plot wasn't bad, but how many times can the lead say "You won't help? ". The problem of having Bond repeat the same line over and over was annoying in both of Dalton's outings as agent 007, not that it was his fault. What WAS his fault was the endless over-emoting in scenes that called for subtlety, his "I'm completely lost--are we still shooting Jane Eyre?" delivery and his totally sexless performances. In "Licence", we are treated at least to a Bond that doesn't camp it up ala Roger Moore. The trade off? Well, he looks like a bufoon-whoever did that hairdo to him in this film should be made to pay. Besides the fact that the premise is based on an event that would never happen in Bond's world-betraying Her Majesty's government to embark on a personal vendetta (this is based on a pretty lousy book written by John Gardner, who wrote a bunch of lousy Bond books), the Bond girls are unappealing and wooden. Only nemesis Robert Davi and a welcome return by David Hedison as Felix Leiter could put a smile on a fan's face. As a sacrificial lamb, one can appreciate this misguided attempt to inject some reality and suspense into the franchise. Lord knows, there was nothing left of it after a string of truly abyssmal Moore films. Perhaps the Dalton films were a stepping stone to the delightful Pierce Brosnan fueled films of the 90's. Just remember- a shakespeareian actor and a noble gesture do not a good Bond film make.
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Summary: Dalton rules!
Review: After Roger Moore retired from Bond, Timothy Dalton took over for two of the best 007 movies of all. The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill are both great action movies, partly due to Dalton's portrail of James. Licence to Kill, the better of the two (in my opinion), sends Bond on an adventure to battle the evil druglord Sanchez, this time for revenge and not for queen and country. This is a new and grittier look at the dark side of Bond and I don't think Connery, Moore, Lazenby, or Brosnan could have achieved what Dalton did in Licence to Kill. He is probably the best Bond actor, next to Connery, to date. It's also a great action/adventure movie for anyone, even if they don't like James Bond. The action and gadgets are really good and so are the enemies. All in all, this is a wonderful movie and one of the top 5 007 films.
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Summary: Bad Movie Turns Good
Review: I saw the parts of the movie on tv and all the parts I saw were horrible. I hated the movie, even though I had never seen the whole thing. I have to admit when I took the chance of buying it I was quite nervous...I didn't want to waste my money. I took a chance and boy did it pay off! It is in my top five James Bond movies!
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: Licence to Kill,Timothy Dalton"s last performance as OO7,was excellent.Almost as good as his first film,The Living Daylights.Robert Davi made a pretty good villain as drug lord Franz Sanchez.I really enjoyed the scenes on the WaveKrest.I love sharks,so naturally,I loved this movie.Licence to Kill,in my opinion,has the best climax scene out of all the James Bond films.The Bond girls,Talisa Soto and Cary Lowell,were probably the best in the series.The locations for this movie were beautiful.Overall,excellent.
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Summary: Dalton breaks the mould
Review: It was the sight of his friends Felix Leichter and his new bride Della that did it, Della dead on he bed, and Felix half eaten by a shark. Nearly 20 years of work in the secret service finally took its toll, James Bond cracked. Dramatically resigning from his post, his licence to kill is revoked. He then sets off on a crusade to track down his friends killer. This is a frighteningly real film, which was a hallmark of the Dalton era, strong plot, good performances and true to life villans. Looses a star for a stupid lorry stunt towards the end, which made it look like you were watching "Monster Truck Mayhem". Carey Lowell is likeable as the heroine, but not perhaps in the Maryam D'abo class. This is a likeable entertaining thriller, which deserves to be regarded as A CLASSIC.
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Summary: Dalton's Bond Swansong
Review: 'Licence to Kill' marks Timothy Dalton's last appearance as James Bond, and it is a gritty, harder-edged Bond film than any since the halycon days of Sean Connery. Despite Tom Keogh's comments posted here at Amazon.com, I prefer this film to Dalton's debut, in 'The Living Daylights'. (Rumor has it that the script of the earlier film was written with Pierce Brosnan in mind, as he came very close to playing Bond in the late eighties...it was filled with quips and one-liners, definitely NOT Dalton's forte!) In this outing, Bond's longtime friend, Felix Leiter (David Hedison, playing the CIA agent a second time), is brutalized by a vicious druglord (Robert Davi), and his new bride is murdered, and Bond has to go AWOL from the British Secret Service to get revenge. This concept turns Bond into a lone wolf, although Q and CIA operative Pam Bouvier (the athletic and sexy Corey Lowell, later on 'Law and Order'), join him in his vendetta. As in all the best Bond films, the action is fast and loud, the women don't wear much, and there is a riproaring climax (here, in a high-speed big rig chase). By having Bond act alone, the producers were able to keep the budget down, the high-tech gadgetry to a minimum, and the locations to just Miami and Mexico (substituting as a fictional Latin American country.) All this makes for a lean, mean Bond vehicle, well-suited for Dalton's interpretion of Bond as less witty, and more violent. Why did the film fail at the box office? Sad to say, audiences weren't prepared for a 007 that was closer to Ian Fleming's vision. Also, 'Lethal Weapon 2' came out at about the same time, and Mel Gibson was at the peak of his popularity, which pulled crowds away. Finally, while Dalton was very macho, and excellent in fight scenes, he lacked the charisma and panache of Connery or Moore, and was uncomfortable saying the occasional one-liners. All this is a shame, because the film is excellent, one of the better Bond outings! It would be six years before a new generation of filmmakers reinvented 007, in 'Goldeneye', with Pierce Brosnan, at last, as Bond. Discover for yourself the pleasures of 'Licence to Kill', in the wonderful DVD Special Edition, with commentaries by director John Glen, a 'Making Of' documentary, theatrical trailers, and a LOT of other goodies! You WON'T be disappointed!
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