1989 · adventure · action · thriller
Licence to Kill
Directed by John Glen2h 13m1989
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
Our read: Licence to Kill (1989) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded adventure · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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