Release Date
July 14, 1989
Director
John Glen
Writer
Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, Ian Fleming
Cast
Robert Brown, Caroline Bliss, Don Stroud, Grand L. Bush, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Alejandro Bracho, Guy De Saint Cyr, Rafer Johnson, Priscilla Barnes, David Hedison, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae, Everett McGill, Wayne Newton, Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Starke, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Desmond Llewelyn, Timothy Dalton
Studio
Running Time
133 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13
What is License to Kill about?
The drug bust went cleanly. The drugs were obtained and the drug lord captured. And following the bust, James Bond's good friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, is married.
And shortly after, the drug lord escapes. Leiter and his new wife are brutally murdered, and Bond knows exactly who did it. But "M" orders him to ignore the matter and start a new assignment; Bond refuses and leaves Her Majesty's Secret Service. Instead, he embarks on... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Timothy Dalton's second Bond movie, after the good but not super The Living Daylights, and his last, is License to Kill. Whether at the time he knew it would be his last Bond film or not, License to Kill is one great way to leave. Probably the darkest of all Bond films, without any motive other than revenge, License to Kill is probably one of the least complicated but one of the most exciting Bond films. Full movie review »
