![]() ![]() Plus Everett McGill! Big Ed himself, playing another character named Ed, no less! I will say though, I did not love this one. There are a few fun actor sightings that I didn’t expect to see, particularly Benicio Del Toro as Franz’s heavy. He’s a ruthless murderer with endless income and a new untraceable type of cocaine that dissolves completely in gasoline and can be reformed later. In Mexico, Bond and CIA buddy Felix Leiter ( David Hedison) find drug lord Sanchez ( Robert Davi) at the Isla Mujeres. The film's locations are mainly divided between Florida and Mexico (where the production was based at the famous Churubuscu Studios in Mexico City). Franz (Robert Davi) the drug lord’s massive estate is beautiful to look at, and Franz’s plot is fun to follow. In Licence To Kill, Bond’s HQ is the Old War Office Building, in Whitehall. Licence To Kill doesn’t have all that many standout moments, but what it lacks in action it makes up for with its stellar supporting cast and gorgeous locations. ![]() Everything from Afghanistan on is a snore, except the admittedly pretty cool Uncharted 3-esque cargo plane fight, but by that time I had given up caring. Pacing has not exactly been this series’ strong suit, but I’m struggling to remember it being fumbled this badly before. The first half of the movie is great fun, but it seriously loses its way about halfway through when it slows down to a crawl. He has an Agent 47-like quality to him, using disguises to worm his way in anywhere and everywhere and a deadly efficiency as if his every move has been planned out weeks in advance. The film actually had a pretty scary heavy too in Necros (Andreas Wisniewski). The sequence segues into another goofy and fun chase when Bond and Kara Milovy (Maryam d’Abo) sled down a snowy mountain on the back of her cello case while being shot at and pursued by tons of skiing goons. Fleming eventually tired of the unchanging, indomitable Bond and broke him in the books that No Time for Die draws most from, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963) and You Only Live Twice (1964).The Living Daylights contains a few of my favorite action scenes I’ve seen in this franchise, particularly the – dare I say – franchise-best car chase atop a frozen lake, wherein Bond comically uses the rim of his car to cut a gigantic circle in the ice and drown a police car. ![]() It was only when the book became a success that the author unashamedly had his hero exercise what Colin Watson called ‘snobbery with violence’ in an increasingly bizarre, science-fictional universe. The initiation of lethal force is in contrast to the use of lethal force in self-defence or the protection of life. An irony of the 007 project, which endures despite all the critiques of the character as out of date - as far back as GoldenEye (1995), Bond was a Cold War dinosaur – is that for Fleming the point of Casino Royale was that the high-living, promiscuous, borderline alcoholic adventurer was, in the austere Britain of 1953, already a relic of the era of Bulldog Drummond and John Buchan. A licence to kill is a licence granted by a government or government agency to a particular operative or employee to initiate the use of lethal force in the delivery of their objectives. Casino Royale had Fleming’s tight plot to hang its reboots on, but subsequent Craig films have had to piece together elements of Fleming’s novels – often unused in the official adaptations – or come up with material from whole cloth.
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