Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12977 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-03-12
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 127 minutes

Synopsis
In LICENCE TO KILL, James Bond (Timothy Dalton) quits Her Majesty's Secret Service to go after a drug kingpin (Anthony Zerbe) who brutalised a fellow agent and his new bride. This 16th 007 installment is one of the best in the series and the first not based on an Ian Fleming story. Dalton makes his final appearance as Bond in the film; the following 007 outing, GOLDENEYE, features Pierce Brosnan as the dashing secret agent.

Customer Reviews

The best bond film yet
Timothy Dalton, the most underated and best bond is back in the best and most underated bond film of all. While the plot is a bit more thin than others, Licence to kill is a very well made action thriller, with some of the best action sequences is bond, no film history, and brilliant performances from all the actors involved. The film is incredibly dark and very violent, especially when compared with the series' lighter entries, but the film is much closer to Ian Flemings view of the character. When people diss this movie it makes me mad, because they are missing out on this brilliant film. This film showed signs of the series going in the right direction, but unfortunately they messed it up by hiring Peirce Brosnan and making it ridiculous all over again. Thank god Daniel Craig finally set things straight with Casino Royale.

I would recomend this film to any action/thriller fan, fans of the books, or fans of the series other dark entries such as On her majesty's secret service or Casino Royale. However Connery groupies who refuse to enjoy any Bond film without Sean in it I would advise to stay the hell away.

Timothy Dalton should have played Bond again. This film proves it, and however many people down it for being "un-Bond" it will never change the fact that this is a fantastic film, and my favourite of all the Bond films.

The most "un-Bond" Bond of them all
After the disappointing Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton was already on thin ice here and this edgy, dark and serious movie as good as finished him off as Bond.

Which is a shame in some respects as it is a very decent movie indeed. There's no megalomaniac villain to contend with, a distinct lack of gadgets (although ironically this movies sees perhaps Q's biggest involvement) and none of the humour that characterised Bond for millions of film-goers.

And that's the problem. Anyone watching this as a "Bond" movie can't help but feel disorientated.

This wouldn't be a problem if it was an excellent film, but beacuse it falls short of that plateau the end result is an engaging, but periodically dull film that makes the cardinal sin of not appealing to the average Bond fan whilst never quite becoming good enough to excuse that judgement call. It's interesting to note that it was over 15 years before they attempted to take Bond down anywhere near this route again.