Licence To Kill Reviews

Anchored by an engaging revenge plot, this Bond film has a great villain, a dark tone and several top-notch action set pieces.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

No quips. No smirks. No innuendoes. Just raw, exposed nerves. The traits for which Dalton gets dinged are those looking past the character's admittedly alluring surface pleasures. Women aren't the only things that keep 007 awake at night, you know.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

The good: this is beautifully complicated stuff... The bad: simply, that it's not a Bond film.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Licence to Kill gave us a grittier and more ruthless Bond. Dalton can definitely play dark, but he lacks the charisma of Connery

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A well-produced slick high-octane action thriller that remains escapist and as entertaining as possible throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: B

...it often feels more like a typical '80s actioner than a bona fide James Bond adventure...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Fast, efficient and unusually gruesome Bond. The tone is sombre, the action is ingenious and in Dalton the series finds the only actor to take 007 seriously.

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Hardcore Bond fans may be dismayed by some of the changes, but no one can deny that the action scenes staged by director John Glen are some of the most spectacular of the entire series and well worth the price of admission.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The thrills-and-spills chases are superbly orchestrated as pic spins at breakneck speed through its South Florida and Central American locations.

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Despite some shaky narrative continuity and muddled motivations, this manages to move pretty briskly, and the action sequences are generally well handled, especially at the climax.

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Even weak James Bond is better than the norm action flicks, and this one qualifies.

| Original Score: 3/5

Very hardcore for Bond

| Original Score: 3.5/4

| Original Score: 3/5

It's all very pacy, with the overly straightforward plotting dimmed but not obscured by the hi-tech effects.

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| Original Score: 3/5

Both the toughest Bond movie ever and the most entertaining Bond movie ever. A rare entry in the series where the danger seems real.

| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 3/5

Dalton is just a little TOO serious as Bond.

| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 3/5