Quando o traficante Franz Sanchez mata o agente da CIA Felix Leiter, Bond vai atrás dele. Mas após receber ordens de Londres para parar, Bond vai ter de escolher entre a lealdade a um amigo ... Ler tudoQuando o traficante Franz Sanchez mata o agente da CIA Felix Leiter, Bond vai atrás dele. Mas após receber ordens de Londres para parar, Bond vai ter de escolher entre a lealdade a um amigo e a lealdade ao seu país e ao serviço secreto.Quando o traficante Franz Sanchez mata o agente da CIA Felix Leiter, Bond vai atrás dele. Mas após receber ordens de Londres para parar, Bond vai ter de escolher entre a lealdade a um amigo e a lealdade ao seu país e ao serviço secreto.
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- President Hector Lopez
- (as Pedro Armendariz)
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The only one of the franchise created especially with star Timothy Dalton in mind (perhaps the sexiest Bond of them all?) it is a tale of loyalty, drug cartels, sharks, and 007 losing his licence and setting off as a vigilante. Lowell plays agent Pam Bouvier, who shines in a bar fight and gives 007 as good as he gets. And boy, do these two have chemistry together!
The only problem with this movie is that it gets so truncated on its TV showings that it loses a lot of its point (and in the worst edit I saw, its sense). There is perhaps too much going on - the abused Latino bimbo, the crooked evangelist, the Japanese businessmen touring the factory, the casino
Not at all as bad as many commentators at the time and since have suggested. What a pity the series stagnated after this before its big budget Pierce Bronson revival. Dalton should have had the chance to show us more of the character he portrays in `Licence to Kill'. And what a great theme tune from Gladys Knight.
Bond is vacationing in Florida, acting as best-man at his friend Felix Leiter's wedding, when the unthinkable happens. Leiter and his wife are assaulted by some Central American thugs; the wife is murdered and Leiter is crippled by sharks. Bond is obviously deeply unhappy about this, but his bosses instruct him to let the matter drop and get on with another assignment. 007 knows who is responsible for the injuries to his friend, so he revokes his licence to kill and becomes a rogue agent, tracking down the villainous drug lord Sanchez (Robert Davi) to his Latin America headquarters. Here, aided by Sanchez's unfaithful mistress Lupe (Talisa Soto) and CIA agent Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell), Bond attempts to wipe out their enormous clandestine drug operation single-handedly.
There's definitely an uneasy, hard edge to the film which makes it unique among the Bond series. Whether or not this improves the film depends on your personal taste: if you like safe, humorous Roger Moore escapades, you'll probably find this too jarring, whereas if you prefer espionage stories with a bit of grit and sweat, this may be just what you're after. The action sequences are still outrageous in the tried-and-trusted Bond style, with memorable episodes featuring a daring helicopter .vs. airplane pursuit; a barefoot water-skiing sequence; and a truck chase down the side of a mountain. Some of the language, though not out-and-out "foul", is a bit stronger and more believable than in other Bond entries. The theme tune from Gladys Knight and the Pips is one of the better 007-tracks.
Licence to Kill is a new twist on the Bond theme. It isn't the best, and some of its new ideas don't fit with the usual routine (which may or may not be a good thing), but it is certainly interesting.
Again we see a more believable James Bond, he's sympathetic, cool, collected and at times it's obvious he's calculating as he goes along with the plot, sometimes he's erratic and sometimes he makes mistakes, something we don't see often. It's a very different Bond than we're used to, especially when he comes across as charismatic without becoming sleazy and creepy.
Add into it a somehow rare love triangle the film at times becomes more about who we think Bond should be with when the movie ends rather than focusing on the actual story being told.
Dalton is probably my favourite Bond and it's a shame his run didn't go on longer as I think I would have preferred him in the films that followed rather than Pierce.
Still there are plenty high points thanks to the EON team: David Hedison as the best Felix Lieter ever, Carey Lowell as the best Bond Girl since Melina Havelock, Q's extended presence, the camera-gun, the Hong Kong narcotics plot twist, and the credible action stunts (007 overtaking the drug money plane is breathless from the moment he harpoon's one of Sanchez' men, pun intended)! Seeing James Bond actually get hurt at the end of the movie was a real stunner though! In the end, it's not great Bondage, but it's an overlooked cut above much of it's competition.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesTimothy Dalton stated in an interview about why his Bond was a much darker, grittier incarnation. It was because he wanted to go back to the Ian Fleming novels, and capture the essence and the spirit of the character Ian Fleming created.
- Erros de gravaçãoWhen the air hose on a truck's braking system is severed, the brakes lock on, they do not release as shown.
- Citações
[Sanchez is about to kill James]
Franz Sanchez: You could have had everything.
James Bond: Don't you want to know why?
[Shows Sanchez Felix's lighter, then sets Sanchez on fire]
- Cenas durante ou pós-créditosThe Surgeon General's warning appears at the end credits, due to the characters' use of tobacco products.
- Versões alternativasOn pan and scan VHS prints issued since 1990, the opening title credits have been slightly altered to fit the screen. Some credits that took one line in the widescreen version were altered to fit two lines in the pan and scan version.
- ConexõesEdited into Folgers Coffee 'Licence to Kill' Television Commercial (1989)
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- Também conhecido como
- 007: Con licencia para matar
- Locações de filme
- Ernest Hemingway Museum - 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida Keys, Flórida, EUA(M revokes Bond's licence to kill)
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Bilheteria
- Orçamento
- US$ 32.000.000 (estimativa)
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 34.667.015
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 8.774.776
- 16 de jul. de 1989
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 156.167.015
- Tempo de duração2 horas 13 minutos
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- Mixagem de som
- Proporção
- 2.39 : 1