Many may have forgotten Dalton’s time as the iconic agent, but whether you remember him or not, it’s worth sinking your teeth into.

| Apr 23, 2024

It's helped by Sanchez, its wonderful villain, simultaneously sadistic and principled, played as Bond's opposite with a superbly sinister aloofness by Robert Davi. And the ending is suitably spectacular.

| Jul 25, 2023

This is far from a terrible movie as it is easy to sit through and has plenty of enjoyable moments but it also isn't well balanced enough to be a classic.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 28, 2022

Licence to Kill is just the shot in the arm the James Bond series has been needing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2022

Passably entertaining, but not really moving. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 12, 2022

The most brutal Bond film from the pre-Daniel Craig era.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2021

Licence to Kill is a different beast entirely. Violent, barbaric, and untamed - this was everything that James Bond decidedly was not. It was here that Dalton's ideal of Fleming's agent crystallized.

| Sep 4, 2021

The level of violence is unlike any other of the series, making the chief antagonist more formidable, memorable, and ultimately less fun.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 6, 2020

Daniel Craig shows the grit, the determination and vulnerability that Bond has...Dalton did that years before!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2020

I think it's very underrated.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 13, 2020

It may not be up your alley if you're just into Bond films, but it you're in the mood for an old fashioned action film, you can do far, far worse than sticking this film on.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2020

Lacks a bit of that Bond magic. Perhaps not the cruder, formulaic elements of other Bond films, but the lightness of touch and inherent charm in the character of Bond himself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2019

The movie is really well-structured, simple in plot but rather meaty in delivery.

| Oct 17, 2018

Some of 007's earlier adventures fail to hold up, but in a post-'Taken' world, 'Licence to Kill' certainly aged well and is a under-appreciated gem in the Bond catalog.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 2, 2015

Licence to Kill gets better as it unfolds for more than two hours. It just takes an insufferably long while to find the right pace.

| May 20, 2014

Licence to Kill ranks as one of the best of the 16 Bond films, thanks to Dalton's athletic, tough and deadly new 007.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2014

As unlikely as it seems, Mr. Dalton actually appears to be growing in the Bond role, which is potentially stifling because its own popularity has so rigidly defined it.

| May 20, 2014

This series' record of maintaining an admirable level of quality stays intact, even if this film might best be used as a cinematic appetizer to see before renting a tape of one of the Connery or Moore classics.

Full Review | May 20, 2014

Every once in a while, [the Bond series] pulls in its stomach, pops the gun from its cummerbund, arches its eyebrow and gets off another bull's-eye. The newest, Licence to Kill, is probably one of the five or six best of Bond.

| May 20, 2014

He may look the part, but Timothy Dalton fails the boots, the scuba gear, or the automobiles left him by Moore and Connery.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2014