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Also known as License to Kill

1989 film by John Glen

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"Licence to Kill" is a 1989 James Bond film directed by John Glen. It is notable as one of the entries in the long-running spy movie franchise starring the fictional secret agent.

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After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.

Released: 1989-06-13133 minDir: John GlenAdventure, Action, ThrillerBudget: $32.0MBox office: $156MPart of: James Bond Collection

Cast

  • Timothy Dalton as James Bond
  • Carey Lowell as Pam Bouvier
  • Robert Davi as Franz Sanchez
  • Talisa Soto as Lupe Lamora
  • Anthony Zerbe as Milton Krest
  • Frank McRae as Sharkey

Themes

  • florida
  • corruption
  • airplane
  • liberation of prisoners
  • drug trafficking
  • secret identity
  • floatplane
  • transport of prisoners
  • tank car
  • florida keys

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Ratings

IMDb

6.7/10

119,328 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

79%

Metacritic

58/100

Year
1989
Runtime
133 min
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rated
PG-13
Awards
1 nomination total

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Wikidata facts

Duration
133
FilmAffinity ID
813197
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title
Licence to Kill
publication date
1989-00-00
Commons category
Licence to Kill (film)
capital cost
40000000
box office
34667015
review score
58/100
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Article

Licence to Kill is a 1989 spy film, the sixteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the second and final film to star Timothy Dalton as the MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond resigns from MI6 in order to take revenge against the drug lord Franz Sanchez who ordered an attack against Bond's friend and CIA agent Felix Leiter and the murder of Felix's wife after their wedding.

Licence to Kill was the fifth and final Bond film directed by John Glen and the last to feature Robert Brown as M and Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny. It was also the last to feature the work of screenwriter Richard Maibaum, title designer Maurice Binder and producer Albert R. Broccoli, who all died in the following years.

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