Licence to Kill. It Need More Respect.

[Catman]

This movie isn't perfect. I always disliked how they tried to hard to be like the other popular `80s action movie like Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. They even hired Michael Kamen to do the score!

That being said...

Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are getting credit for what this movie did two decades ago. The idea of a serious, no nonsense Bond was done two decades ago.

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[StrainedEyes]

I'm a License to Kill fan.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

i'd say your opinion is valid, but the new bond is a product of today's world with jason bourne and nolan's batman running around.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The film is terrible though. Oh and it is in no way serious.

 

[Octoberist]

More like 'Licence to FART"

har har har

 

[Catman]

it is in no way serious.

Explain yourself.

 

[Joker]

Out of the pre-Craig Bonds, I'd say Dalton is my second favorite. He didn't have the charm of Connery, but he was a hell of a lot closer to the Bond from the books. As you said, he did what Craig and them are doing now back then, with his coldness and serious attitude. The damage to that series had already been done by the time he took over though, thanks to that overweight, middle aged hack Roger Moore, who's idea of Bond was "just be over the top and attempt to be funny all the time!"

 

[Rishi]

Too much flack is given to Moore and Brosnan for their portrayals of Bond. I'm pretty sure they were just written to be the way they are, or directed as such. It's not like they thought up all those bad puns and dumb gadgets/scenes themselves.

 

[블라스]

Wait, Brosnan was a badass Bond in Goldeneye.

 

[Joker]

Brosnan was good in Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough. And yes, it's the fault of the writers and directors, but they both could have done a Connery and said "You want me to say WHAT? No thanks, I'll just take the popularity boost playing this character has given me and move on to doing good movies instead, goodbye." Brosnan pretty much did just that after Die Another Day, if my memory is correct.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Explain yourself.

It plays like an episode of Miami Vice. Need I say more?

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

I kind of liked Dalton as Bond but I thought both flicks he was in were kind of poor.

 

[Fenrir]

Bond was far more a badass in The Living Daylights (in my opinion, the superior of the two Dalton flicks) than he was in License to Kill. After TLD, I was really looking forward to LTK, but despite it's whole R-rated serious angle, it felt more like a slightly expensive B-movie rather than a polished Bond flick.

 

[The Englishman]

Bond was far more a badass in The Living Daylights (in my opinion, the superior of the two Dalton flicks) than he was in License to Kill. After TLD, I was really looking forward to LTK, but despite it's whole R-rated serious angle, it felt more like a slightly expensive B-movie rather than a polished Bond flick.

I agree i love The Living Daylights, def in my top 5 007 Movies.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I dislike TLD as well. Terribly annoying Bond girl, bland villains, bland Bond, and a terrible set piece built around a cello.

 

[Lord Blackbolt]

Dalton's Bond movies had the least prettiest Bond girls on film...IMO.

 

[The Englishman]

I dislike TLD as well. Terribly annoying Bond girl, bland villains, bland Bond, and a terrible set piece built around a cello.

Hey stop using my surname!!! t:

 

[DACrowe]

I don't want to be a basher (so I'll keep it brief) but CR and QOS are praised for what the Bond franchise TRIED to do two decades ago.

As you said it felt too much like a '80s Lethal Weapon movie (and I'm afraid QOS may be looked back on as a Bourne-wannabe as well) and that is true. And the story isn't told that well, it is just kind of unintentionally cheesy which both CR and QOS are not.

Also, I know the diehards love him for the most part, but Dalton was always a weak Bond. Yes he played him dark and serious and tortured with a world weariness...but it doesn't work for movie Bond. He just couldn't hold it. Connery was cooler and incorporated most of that with charm, brutality and a sense of playful fun. Craig has a sense of fun and playfulness to him (at least in CR) beyond the angry wrecking ball Bond he plays. Even Brosnan captured the weary, semi-bitter/feels-irrelevant Bond in GE and TWINE better. Also while he was far more playful, like all the Bonds he could be ruthless when he needed to be.

Dalton just triedh ard to be Fleming's Bond but he couldn't make it work. NOw with Craig who is successful at it, I think some fans may see that.

 

[Dr Strange]

I enjoyed both of the Dalton films, he didnt have the charisma of Connery but at least he wasnt over the top camp ( Even though i like Moore, his films were way to campy).
I prefer Dalton to Moore, Brosnan and Lazenby but he isnt as good as Craig or Connery, I really like LTK but i do prefer TLD but overall i am a fan of his films and i do believe they are under-rated.

 

[The Lizard]

Ugh. Hated License to Kill - a waste of a really good Bond movie title.

When Bond "dodged" the rocket grenade by running the 18-wheeler up on its wheels on one side...stupid.

 

[Furious Styles]

This movie isn't perfect. I always disliked how they tried to hard to be like the other popular `80s action movie like Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. They even hired Michael Kamen to do the score!

That being said...

Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are getting credit for what this movie did two decades ago. The idea of a serious, no nonsense Bond was done two decades ago.

Dalton doesn't come across as charming and suave in LTK; far from it. Unlike any other actor in the film's history, he comes across as a deadly and unstoppable force of nature.

One of the best Bond films ever!

Yes he played him dark and serious and tortured with a world weariness...but it doesn't work for movie Bond. He just couldn't hold it. Connery was cooler and incorporated most of that with charm, brutality and a sense of playful fun. Craig has a sense of fun and playfulness to him (at least in CR) beyond the angry wrecking ball Bond he plays. Even Brosnan captured the weary, semi-bitter/feels-irrelevant Bond in GE and TWINE better. Also while he was far more playful, like all the Bonds he could be ruthless when he needed to be.

I believe that's the point. He's not on a mission. He's not having fun. He's OUT FOR REVENGE! It's a character study of Bond. He's at his wits end. He doesn't exactly enjoy killing people. And when he finds Felix, as well as Della's lifeless body, he snaps. If there's going to be killing, it will be by his hands.

Robert Davi is a fantastic and underrated Bond villain as well. The finale between Bond and Sanchez is one of the best action sequences in the series.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Ugh. Hated License to Kill - a waste of a really good Bond movie title.

When Bond "dodged" the rocket grenade by running the 18-wheeler up on its wheels on one side...stupid.

More or less stupid then in Diamonds are Forever when Bond puts his car on 2 wheels in order to get into the ally, then halfway through the alley going flat and then onto the other 2 wheels in order to come out of the alley the way they accidently filmed it? That takes skill.

 

[Golgo-13]

LTK is like QoS. It strayed the furtherist from the Bond formula, for it's time, thus why it's not well recieved. I like it, but at times it feels very un-Bond-like.

I personally think The Living Daylights is the best Bond flick in the franchise.

 

[The Dude]

I love License to Kill. Definitely in my top 5 Bond movies.

 

[Immortalfire]

I love LTK...Dalton is probably my favorite. Most accounts call him the best representation of Fleming's original writings.