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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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6.4After 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.
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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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.