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Licence to Kill (1989)
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Without SMERSH or SPECTRE to outwit (this was the era of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost, after all), James Bond turned his attention to big-time drug barons. Timothy Dalton phones in his performance, Desmond Llewelyn is given his biggest role of the series and there's a spectacular chase with an oil tanker, but the relentless violence and lack of sexual conquests make this more of a Lethal Weapon than a Bond movie. The title was to have been Licence Revoked until market research implied that Americans didn't know what “revoked” meant. Anyway, when 007 does get his licence revoked, he's asked to hand over his gun. “Then it's a farewell to arms,” he says to “M” in the garden of Hemingway's home in Key West. It's a rare moment of style in a jaded effort. AT
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Running time
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126min
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Country of origin
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US
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Genre
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Spy Adventure
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Michael G Wilson, Richard Maibaum, from characters created by Ian Fleming
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Theatrical distributor
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U.I.P. (UK)
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UK cinema certificate
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15
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