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Kids say (28 ): LICENCE TO KILL was a new effort to try to "darken" the James Bond franchise, with a PG-13 rating, a use of harsher language, bloodier violence, and a plot that had Bond going rogue. But unfortunately these were superficial touches that didn't really help the movie at its core.
- John Glen
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi
- 6 Sanchez Feeds Felix Leiter to A Shark
- 5 Heller Kills Loti
- 4 Krest’S Head Explodes
- 3 Dario Gets Shredded
- 2 Heller Is Impaled by A Forklift
- 1 Bond Sets Sanchez on Fire
At the start of Licence to Kill, James Bond assists his friend Felix Leiterand the DEA in capturing Franz Sanchez off the coast of Key West, Florida. Sanchez later escapes federal custody with the help of DEA agent Ed Killifer. In retaliation for his imprisonment, Sanchez lowers a bound Leiter into a shark tank where a tiger shark bites off part of...
With his license to kill revoked, James Bond travels to the Republic of Isthmus in Latin America where he gets close to Franz Sanchez by posing as an assassin for hire. Two Hong Kong narcotics agents, joined by an MI6 agent sent to apprehend Bond, foil 007’s plan and take him to an abounded warehouse. Sanchez’s head of security, Colonel Heller, lea...
Before gaining an audience with Sanchez in Isthmus, Bond intercepts one of the drug baron's shipments and takes five million dollars. Later, Bond frames one of Sanchez’s associates, Milton Krest, by planting the stolen money in a decompression chamber aboard Krest’s ship Wavecrest. As punishment for what he perceives to be Krest's disloyalty, Sanch...
Believing Bond to have proved his loyalty, Sanchez accepts Bond into his inner circle and takes him to his base of operations. Bond learns Sanchez’s scientists are disguising cocaine by dissolving it in petrol to sell to Asian drug dealers. Bond’s cover is soon blown, and Sanchez’s henchman Dario places the captured 007 on a conveyor belt leading t...
James Bond sets the chemical lab on fire inside Sanchez's processing plant. As Bond and Bouvier attempt to escape the flames, they are interrupted by a forklift plowing through an interior wall. Impaled on the forklift is Colonel Heller. In one of the less noticeable edits, only a few frames are altered from Heller’s death. This change amounts to a...
Bond villain Franz Sanchezflees the incineration of his cocaine processing plant, taking four tankers full of the cocaine and petrol mix with him. Bond pursues the tankers by plane with Bouvier at the controls. After destroying three of the tankers and killing several of Sanchez’s men, Bond boards the final tanker where Sanchez attacks him with a m...
Dec 31, 2022 · License To Kill is highly enjoyable. Yes, it has a certain edge, and there is plenty of violence, including a vicious and combustive end for Sanchez. However, there are also moments of humor and romance too. The Bond girls are formidable, beautiful, and nuanced, which isn’t always the case.
Licence to Kill. PG-13 Released Jul 14, 1989 2h 13m Action CTA List. 80% Tomatometer 64 Reviews 61% Popcornmeter 50,000+ Ratings. James Bond (Timothy Dalton) takes on his most-daring adventure ...
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- John Glen
- PG-13
- Timothy Dalton
Jun 13, 2024 · Throughout Licence to Kill, Bond is up against a drug kingpin named Sanchez, played by one of the greatest all-time character actors ever, Robert Davi. Perhaps more famously, Sanchez is backed-up ...
Budget. $32 million. Box office. $156.1 million. 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 ...
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It’s a match-up that has Bond at a major disadvantage. If he truly wants to nail Sanchez, he’ll have to find a way to bring him down from the inside. And it’s that constant back and forth between the two parties that keeps the film exciting. The closer Bond gets to his goal, the more dangerous his position becomes.
