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Licence to Kill

1989 · Movie · 133 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer79%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.3/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic58/100as of 2026-01-11

What it is

Licence to Kill is a 1989 spy film, the sixteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the second and final film to star Timothy Dalton as the MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond resigns from MI6 in order to take revenge against the drug lord Franz Sanchez who ordered an attack against Bond's friend and CIA agent Felix Leiter and the murder of Felix's wife after their wedding.

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At a glance

Genres
Action / Thriller
Original language
English

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