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

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

I think it's very underrated.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 13, 2020

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

If the series is ever going to return to its Connery-era glory, it definitely needs some new writers, ones who know how to streamline a story and keep the dialogue tight.

| May 20, 2014

Dalton revives the cool, ironic detachment of the Connery years, but he also allows a touch of obsession to show through Bond`s surface aplomb.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2014

With Dalton straightening out Bond for the second time, Licence to Kill continues the salvage operation begun in The Living Daylights and rescues a series that was in danger of shooting itself in the foot. With a Walther PPK, of course.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2014

The Bond women are pallid mannequins, and so is the misused Dalton -- a moving target in a Savile Row suit. For every plausible reason, he looks as bored in his second Bond film as Sean Connery did in his sixth.

| Oct 13, 2008

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

| Oct 13, 2008

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.

| Oct 13, 2008

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

| Feb 9, 2006

Mr. Dalton is perfectly at home as an angry Bond, and as a romantic lead and as an action hero, but he never seems to blend any two of those qualities at once.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Glen is clearly out of ideas, only managing to present a level of violence so out of character for the series, it surely contributed to the modest (by Bond standards) box office returns.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2001

The stunts all look convincing, and the effect of the closing sequence is exhilarating.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

You may find yourself shaken -- not stirred -- by the screenwriting cruelty and cynicism behind the 16th Bond.

| Jan 1, 2000

Dalton plays a straight-faced, humorless, no-nonsense Bond -- all guns and no play -- and it makes for a very dull time.

| Jan 1, 2000