Saturday, November 8, 2025

James Bond Movie Review: **** License to Kill (1989)

 This the second Bond movie with Timothy Dalton as the lead character.  This movie is uch different than the other Bond movies.  In this movie, M (Robert Brown) actually strips Bond of his license to kill as he wants to pursue personal revenge against a drug dealer who has killed his CIA friend's wife and left his friend chewed by a shark and missing a leg.  The drug dealer, Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) has big plans to make lots of money by combining drug dealing with other dealers, and supplying them cheaper drugs delivered in large trucks.  Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell) helps Bond, as does Q (Desmond Llewelyn).  Miss Moneypenny (Caroline Bliss) is also concerned about Bond as he is off grid.  Bond also turns Sanchez' girlfriend, Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto) into an ally is she is tired of being abused.  When Bond comes down, with the help of Bouvier, he comes down very hard.  The movie starts with Sanchez being captur4ed as Bond hooks a cable to his airplane and he is hauled to justice by a helicopter.  Someone takes his $2 million bribe and he escapes.  The movie ends with a big semi truck chase and fight with lots of explosions as the drug business goes up in flames.  Great fun.  Bond makes it to the end of the movie with two women, and he has to pick.



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