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LICENCE TO KILL 1989 John Glen *** Glen is the director who directed more Bond films than anyone else. This is the 2nd and sadly last Bond film Timothy Dalton made. Not only here do you have a pretty elegant Bond that has a universal attraction (to either sex) but the girls are not curvaceous busty bimbos as in early Bonds, these are smart androgynous women, and are Bond’s equals. The plot is linear in that it is clearly about drug smuggling and money laundering in South America and from the start Bond is out for revenge against a mobster called Sanchez who maims his partner and murders his partner’s wife on their wedding night (Bond had been the best man). Lovely shots in the beginning of the Florida Keys and the causeway, and lots of boat and underwater sequences as well as a few gruesome scenes with sharks. This film is a tad gruesome compared to other Bond films and has a harder edge to it (though there is a rather ridiculously implausible chase with fuel tankers – but then aren’t most of the set pieces in Bond films wholly implausible?) However there is something about this film that doesn’t engage. It seems long, and the plot overblown, and the whole work lacks tension and dynamism. Looking up reviews of the time, they seem varied but basically of the same opinion. Though this is a serious and more engaging Bond, the film lacked ”flair in its writing and directing”. But definitely a milestone in getting Bond films to the elegant, thrilling franchise they are now.Read full review
Love Timothy Dalton. what a great actor to play bond. less gimicky than other bonds and more grit. recommend it to anyone. the girls are allowed more action too not the simpering femail roles of the past.
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