She was a bit of a throwback is being pretty much useless and all about putting her hands on Bond, all with a dodgy accent. The only major thing that comes to mind is Talisa Soto as Sanchez’s mistreated love interest Lupe Lamora. It’s all very entertaining, in a simple way, and looks very nice in HD. A shootout in a warehouse, undersea / harpoon battles, a large brawl in a bar, a hidden base explosion, and a long car / truck chase that ends in more large fiery explosions. The other thing you get in good old fashioned action films is … action! Licence to Kill has this covered too.
Scenes where Bond is manipulating him into killing his own men while pretending to be a hitman were great.Īdd in a fresh-faced Benicio del Toro as henchman Dario (who gets minced just moments before the “Turn the bloody machine off!” moment) and David Hedison as a very likeable version of Felix Leiter and you have a great cast for a good old fashioned action film. Robert Davi as the previously mentioned drug baron Franz Sanchez is also really good in his role, so smug and confident in everything he does, you really do look forward to him being taken down a few notches… and then killed. I guess that goes to show I grew to like Pam Bouvier, if nothing else. The sheer amount of times Bond kept telling her to stay behind and that he “can handle it from here” drove me crazy, and I’m a viewer. She does her job well and has to put up with Bond being a male chauvinist arse. No attempted Roger Moore quips here!Ĭarey Lowell as the aforementioned CIA agent Pam Bouvier is good. Anyway, he’s a good tough action hero, which is what the role required this time. Basically, Timothy Dalton swearing in some capacity made me chuckle, and I don’t know why. Two scenes stand out in my head related to him alone, and that’s when he has Sanchez in his sniper rifle scope and says “Watch the birdie, you BASTARD.” to himself, for some reason, and when he’s dangling over a mincer and female CIA agent Pam Bouvier arrives and asks if he’s okay, and he simply replies “Turn the bloody machine off!”. Timothy Dalton is a good stern anti-hero here, ignoring his orders in order to get some revenge. I mean Q does appear, off the record, but his only real gadget beyond a quick gag or two is a sniper rifle that looks like a video recorder. Let’s move on shall we?”Īs I said in the opening paragraph, this is not a Bond film in most ways you think of a Bond film, very few gadgets, no special cars or espionage, just tough bad ass’s friend’s wife is killed and it’s time to go off the books and kill … pretty much everyone even slightly tied to the drug baron who was responsible.
How will this help me take down Sanchez?” “Oh, yes… Good point, 007. “-and then you insert this part in your anus.” “I … see. James Bond relinquishes his licence to kill, disobeys his orders and goes on a mission of revenge when his best friend Felix’s wife is killed by drug baron Franz Sanchez… Does that make it a bad film? Nope! It’s a fun time killer, but it’s not what I put on if I fancy a Bond film… Let’s take a look!
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Timothy Dalton’s run as James Bond ends almost as soon as it began with Licence to Kill, a movie far more like a generic revenge thriller than any kind of Bond or spy film.
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