Licence to Kill

MGM/UA Distribution Company | Release Date: July 14, 1989

7.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 66 Ratings

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Gamepro3093Aug 19, 2020

Timothy Dalton was the worst James Bond. Underrated my ass! George Lazenby was better than this stiff bore was. Now HE’S underrated.

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Toasty87Jul 10, 2020

More like the original books which I respect but this movie is very slow and drags for a while.

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amheretojudgeMay 9, 2019

After Moore, it's Glen's turn to get on stage, with successive dull projects publishing out and about, he is quite the competitor now.

License To Kill Glen claims this chapter to be an improvement and we agree with him finally on something,After Moore, it's Glen's turn to get on stage, with successive dull projects publishing out and about, he is quite the competitor now.

License To Kill

Glen claims this chapter to be an improvement and we agree with him finally on something, but as an individual project, is it really though? The director John Glen starts off, this second and after encountering it, what looks like also the final round of Timothy Dalton, with the Manchurian Candidate theme, a little derivative but a safe way to open any storyline, not that there is anything beyond that. In order to make Dalton empathetic and a guy with a shoulder to cry upon, the narration is made a bit sombre and adaptive, which we encounter through his eyes. Also, he is often wrongfully condemned which then gives him a complimentary arc to prove himself to both the characters and us, a smart move by the makers to keep him in check and convey that he does and will earn himself; it's a drop in the ocean, for sure, but that's a different topic.

Frankly, it would have been a lot better if this chapter was his entry to this exotically sketchy world. The humor is almost non-existent which was good considering the material the film deals with, but the thing that actually goes past mention are the make out scenes. The whole kiss and make up thing is something they don't even bother explaining, at this point, it's part of a charm, the makers counter argue, every single time.

It's like a textbook triangle love story with trust issues spiced up by a revenge driven plot, an eye for an eye action fabricated as a thriller; which so it blatantly has been claiming over the years; that's just misleading. The antagonist is given almost a parallel role that casts quite an impression compared to the previous baddies involved in Bond's memoir where unlike other times, he doesn't have a License To Kill, like that's going to change anything.… Expand

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imthenoobNov 15, 2019

It seems to follow the same formula as the last near dozen Bond films. Terrible villain, Unoriginal plot and painfully slow pacing. The film just falls apart, much like the first Dalton film, in the second half and it already wasn't off to aIt seems to follow the same formula as the last near dozen Bond films. Terrible villain, Unoriginal plot and painfully slow pacing. The film just falls apart, much like the first Dalton film, in the second half and it already wasn't off to a good start, to begin with. It may be a "darker" Bond film but, to me, it comes off as cheesy and uninspired. It's definitely up there as one of the worst Bond films IMO.… Expand

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BroyaxDec 31, 2017

Ce second 007 avec Timothy Dalton est contre toute attente (après un Tuer n'est pas jouer fort médiocre mais regardable) un énorme étron. Tellement mauvais qu'on en revient pas, tellement mauvais que c'en est choquant : je suis sévèrementCe second 007 avec Timothy Dalton est contre toute attente (après un Tuer n'est pas jouer fort médiocre mais regardable) un énorme étron. Tellement mauvais qu'on en revient pas, tellement mauvais que c'en est choquant : je suis sévèrement choqué par tant de nullité nulle à chier.

Certes, Forrest, Forrest Gump a dit que n'est nulle que la nullité, mais la nullité nulle à chier, c'est vraiment à chier. Et on ne pourra pas imputer cette catastrophe au seul Dalton mais à l'ensemble du film lui-même dont le scénario a été écrit par un mongolo, s'inspirant grossièrement de l'actualité d'un Pablo Escobar lu dans un Voici ou son équivalent anglo-amerlocain.

Il ne se passe pas grand-chose ou presque rien pour ainsi dire et les personnages secondaires qui font une grande utilisation des "bimbos" écervelées qui essaient d'avoir l'air intelligent, font à coup sûr l'effet foireux de baudruches qui fuient de toutes parts. En vérité, tout est surjoué comme dans un téléfilm de troisième zone ou une pauvre série policière amerloque à la mords-moi-le-noeud. D'ailleurs, le "méchant" trafiquant est incarné par Monsieur FBI en personne, Robert Davi...

La réalisation très plate en devient morne et carrément abrutissante, y compris dans les quelques cascades plus ridicules que dangereuses à dire vrai... à défaut d'être spectaculaires bien entendu. On voudrait bien en rire mais là aussi, impossible même au 75ème degré : le sous-niveau est tel qu'il est désormais sans fond.… Expand

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