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Licence To Kill
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $10.49
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe
Directed By: John Glen (II)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616066640
Format: AC-3
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-02-06
Running Time: 133
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1989-07-14
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Editorial Reviews:
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James Bond is catapulted into his most passionate adventure -- not for country not for justice but for personal revenge. As Agent 007 turns renegade Timothy Dalton brings urgency charm and deadly determination to his portrayal of the screen's greatest action hero.When drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) exacts his brutal vengeance on Bond's friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison) 007 resigns from the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta against the master criminal. Bond won't be satisfied until Sanchez is defeated and to accomplish this aim he allies himself with a beautiful pilot (Carey Lowell) and Sanchez's sexy girlfriend (Talisa Soto). But Bond relegated to outlaw status must battle agents on both sides of the law as he discovers the horrifying extent of his prey's resources. In order to bring Sanchez down Bond must survive a ferocious boat chase a mid-air brawl over the controls of an out-of-control airplane and an action-packed confrontation in the Mexico desert.It's a pulse-pounding thrill ride with awesome stunt sequences subtle humor and explosive confrontations. When Bond's licence to kill is revoked he's more deadly than ever!System Requirements:Running Time: 134 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating:Â Unknown UPC:Â 027616066640 Manufacturer No:Â M106664
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Some like it, some don't...
Comment: I have watched the whole JB series in chronological order several times now. I have not reviewed each one on Amazon, but felt compelled to advise others about License to Kill. I have cringed each time it's time to view this movie, and have decided to rarely if ever watch it again.
Why?
Well, first of all, a disclosure. I like Roger Moore's Bond. I like Sean Connery too. I like the silly 1960's special effects for what they are, and the gadgets, the girls, the whole semi-unrealistic but fun plot devices and production values. But as you may have read in other reviews, this movie deviates from all of those.
The opening theme, looking down the gun barrel is awful. The unnecessary and disgusting "give her his heart" scene gave me nightmares in 1989 and still is bothersome. The lack of an MI6-backed mission is uninteresting. And why, oh why, does Felix Leiter get knocked-off every few films, then magically brought back to life? (or in this case, half-eaten)
Yes, I know, Ian Fleming's novels are grittier than the films. One Amazon reviewer noted the shark scene is right out of the novel "Live and Let Die". Well, that is another one of my least-liked Bond films, and for much the same reason I don't like this film. The sense of death and maiming is palpable. The good guy doesn't really win. Europeans sometimes are said to like tragedy versus redemption. Maybe, but you have to be interested in the characters, and I'm not in this film -- or at least the characters that are still alive.
Some people would point out that all Bond films are not exactly supposed to be harmless romps through the playground, but this is all about entertainment, not about how close can we make a movie that mimics what Columbia drug lords really have done to people in graphic detail. It's too bad for Dalton, who's acting is quite respectable.
So, if by some chance you are a Bond fan and still haven't seen this film, hopefully the above will allow some manner for you to interpret the feel of this movie. But I would rather watch the off-kilter Never Say Never Again than License To Kill.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Licence to Kill!
Comment: one of timothy dalton's better efforts and the missing movie from my now complete Bond collection.
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Summary: Dalton grows into the character
Comment: "The Living Daylights" was a disappointment. But in "Licence to Kill", Timothy Dalton grew into the character and made it his own rather than trying to mimick Roger Moore. It's a darker James Bond than before, this time motivated by revenge. The story is less extravagant than some of the earlier movies - the villain is no super terrorist or megalomaniac but a South American drug lord - but the action is great. Robert Davi is a good villian and a young Benicio del Toro plays one of his henchmen. It is a pity Dalton quit after this movie. It would have been interesting to see more of him as Bond.
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Summary: NOT TRUE!!!
Comment: I ordered a license to kill from Amazon because I have this really annoying neighbor who mows his lawn at night and I wanted official government permission to waste him. But instead I got a DVD! And the license it was talking about was only valid in the United Kingdom, AND you had to work for British Intelligence to apply for the license! I complained to the Secretary of State, and even to the governor, and six Congressmen, but they said no. And guess what happened in the meantime! My neighbor got a new lawnmower, an ever louder one! Arrgghhhhh!!!!
(But it was a good DVD)
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Summary: Bond, James Bond
Comment: I did not like Timothy Dalton in Living Daylights, but I really enjoyed him in Licence to kill. I actually bought into him being James Bond. He is not Sean Connery but nobody is perfect.
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