Movie Reaction: Licence to Kill (1989)
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Proceeding our journey through all Bond Movies with Lyrith (re)watching my favorite Bond film: Licence to Kill. Thankfully she didnt remember much from watching this one before, so it still felt like a first time viewing!
00:00 Introduction
03:12 Movie Reaction
33:12 Movie Verdict
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One reason I like this one so much is how good Dalton is. He really sells the revenge.
Davi is only 71.
I like that Dalton read the books and based his performance on Ian Fleming's original version: a dark, no-nonsense agent who will not hesitate to do whatever is needed to get the job done.
Top 3. I also think it’s noteworthy that the Eighties started with “don’t do revenge” in For Your Eyes Only and ended with “revenge is awesome” in this
28:48 I love how when Bond cries out to Bouvier to "Switch the bloody machine off!", he does in a way so that he's not only swearing, but referring to the fact that it's now covered in blood.
LOL😂😂😂😂
It feels authentic, Bond plays around, but not when his legs are about be shredded.
I've never picked up this double meaning! I think you're right
I think this was meant to be a goofy pun, but Dalton outright refused to make it campy. "Bloody" brilliant!
Nah I don’t think he’s saying as a quip but more like “TURN THE FUCKING MACHINE OFF!!!!!!!!!
My appreciation for this movie has grown exponentially in the last decade. Looking forward to Lyrith’s notes.
One of my fa❤e opening title sequence songs, too...LTK!😊
"Yea, that's just women"
"Yea, that's just men"
Sheer brilliance from Lyrith!!!!
Great reaction!! I had just graduated high school when this came out. I was supposed to be looking for a job, but I took a bus everyday to a $1 theater that was showing this and I would watch it three times in a row, everyday!! For about a month I did that. So I have a special place for this Bond movie. It was my escape, because I was scared, looking for work and the big changes of not being in school anymore. I felt lost. But developing a Bond way of thinking it gave me courage to finally get out there and get to work. Thank you Timothy Dalton for helping me out, lol!!!
Congratulations 🎉
The end credits song is better than a lot of recent Bond themes
I agree
I liked that period from THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS up to TOMORROW NEVER DIES when they had one song for the opening and one song for the ending. I keep imagining that if credits had been longer back when, they could have done that with THUNDERBALL, with the Tom Jones song at the opening (the villain song) and Dionne Warwick's "Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" at the end (the hero song).
Ahh Yes Licence To Kill!
One of my favorite movies of all time!
Sanchez to me is top 3 villain and i love how different and violent this movie is.
That was a great reaction, thank you. It's really nice that Lyrith enjoyed your favourite Bond movie. While I occasionally get fatigue when rewatching some Bond movies, I never get bored of either of the Dalton Bond movies.
Timothy Dalton's Bond is my favorite with Roger Moore a close second as long as he isn't pushing the campiness too far. My favorite Moore film was For your eyes only. I hated From a view to a kill. That's when I was fed up with the campiness and jokes because the entire series needed a reboot. Dalton was the reboot I was looking for.
@@largol33t12 Roger Moore was my Bond growing up, so I have fond memories of his movies. I'd rate The Spy Who Loved Me and For Yours Eyes Only as my two favourites of his, and I agree that View to a Kill is awful. Dalton was such a great actor to reboot the series, especially as he was fit and agile. Roger Moore was just too old by Octopussy and View to a Kill.
My favourite Bond movie. if only Dalton made more Bond movies....
He was originally on contract to do Goldeneye but refused the role because of a few lengthy stipulations if he renewed his contract.
My favorite Bond Girl. Carey Lowell. 😍😍😍
Still one of my personal favorites this one. Along with my personal favorite villain, Franz Sanchez.
"But you already have my heart." How sweet and amusing. :)
I love this film, the fish winking at the end is the best bit.
LTK is violent, dark and EDGY.
For how dark and violent this movie is, the ending is so fun and upbeat haha.
Not a typical Bond film but one of the absolute best. Bond, Sanchez, Q, the girls, it all works brilliantly.
Benicio Del Toro!❤
@@tmmartinesq.6216 never rated Dario as a very good henchman.
All he does is sneer and flick a switchblade in a fancy way.
Give me something genuinely threatening not imply it.
Your quote about the end song being like an end to the Classic Bond films is spot on! I've always felt the same way and I'm so glad someone else has said it!
I have never noticed the bullets ricochet in the bond theme, that's crazy! I love hearing these new things, I never got the "bloody machine" gag before either until someone here pointed it out
Something I like about this film is that most of the locations are from my home country, such as the Hotel Las Hadas, El Edificio de Correos in Mexico City and the La Rumorosa highway, where the trailer chase sequence was filmed. This road is known as one of the most dangerous in the world, which has given rise to many folk legends. According to the documentary on the DVD, several crew members report experiencing alleged paranormal activity on La Rumorosa location. Of course, the famous "hand of fire" is nothing more than a photo trick. Either way, I loved your reaction!
i think dalton was the perfect mix of comedy action and dark moments he really deserved a longer run
I loved seeing him as the evil grocery store owner in Hot Fuzz. Funny fact: he improvised the scene where Simon Pegg is interrogating him and checks his legs for a scar. The scene took multiple tries because Pegg didn't know he was wearing sock suspenders under the slacks and broke up laughing!
Dutch Bond fan you rule. From Manchester UK With Love.
Always had to hand it to that dancing girl at the bar - her contract probably says "stay on that platform and dance, no matter what" and she follows through!
26.08: Krest's death... I almost feel sorry for him. He was an "innocent victim". At least he didn't steal the money! Of course he was an important figure in Sanchez's organization, but he did not rape or kill anyone... Still, a very effective scene! *** LTK(1989): A very good Bond film with great main actor TIMOTHY DALTON!!! This film is maybe my #11? Bond film. *** My top-10 Bond films ever are: 1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1995.
Don't drop the years, drop the titles of the films 😂
Crest's story is very Sergio Leone, as is the whole story. (I guess that makes it very Kurosawa.) He certainly had nothing against murder, and would've probably forced Lupi if not for Sanchez. So I've never minded him getting offed.
It saddened me that Bond's new buddy Sharkey, got killed after he found out about the CIA agent being bribed to help the drug lord escape.
Dalton’s commitment to the role is on full display in this movie. Easily Dalton’s best.
I do feel however that a re-edit of the film could improve it tonally.
I’d add some deleted scenes such as Bond watching Sanchez on the TV in his hotel. I’d also add the scene where Heller and Truman Lodge are name checked and setup proper.
I would remove the shot where bond is ambushed and one of the ninja’s try’s to shoot him with his signature gun. (Makes no sense, why are they trying to kill bond when just moments later they capture him.)
I’d also Axe the entire house party ending and just have the movie end with bond and Pam driving off in the truck.
Fun Fact:
Bond director John Glen reunited
with Michael Gothard, Robert Davi and Benicio Del Toro in the 1992 film *Christopher Columbus: The Discovery* alongside the Salkinds who produced the 3 SUPERMAN films (Glen was the 2nd Unit Director for the first film). Timothy Dalton was to play Columbus, but due to various reasons during the film's troubled production, he jumped ship and was therefore replaced by Georges Corraface.
* Presumably, Licence to Kill is a sequel to the Ian Fleming short story called "The Hildebrand Rarity". In The Hildebrand Rarity, Bond has to deal with "Milton Krest Sr". When he dies, his son "Milton Krest Jr" inherits the "Wavekrest" and the stingray tail called "The Corrector" that he would beat his wife with. Perhaps Sanchez saw it laying around, asked Krest about it, and liked the idea. Krest may have given it to him as a birthday present. Who knows? Felix Leiter gets a leg bitten off just below the knee by a tiger shark, but his leg is back in "No Time to Die".
* One fan theory is that Felix told police exactly where his leg was, and which shark ate it. It was probably still intact(because sharks digest things slowly). They gutted the shark, brought his leg to the hospital. They probably cleaned it up, sterilized it, and reattached it. Sure, it would probably take a couple years before he'd be able to walk right without a cane but, that's one way how Felix could've gotten his leg back. He'd have some pretty nasty-looking scars though. I mean, look what they were able to do for John Bobbitt. You know that story right? I don't wanna read it again.
I'm very surprised at Lyrith's non-reaction to the Felix/shark scene! 🦈
Actually her face and eyebrows tell a lot about her feelings towards it. She thought it was very gruesome!
First Bond film I saw in the theatre, on it's release. Bought the DVD a few years ago and my husband watched the opening sequence, said it was silly and left the room. A few years later we saw it on TV right to the end and he said, "That was pretty good", totally forgetting watching the DVD. I gave him a pretty hard time for that.
One of the best title tracks too.
I enjoy this film alot. I got it ranked #9 on my Bond film list. I'm glad Lyrith enjoyed, Licence To Kill.
I am glad Lyrith finally warmed up to Dalton. He not only is the greatest ACTOR ever to play the part, but his interpretation is the closest to the character that Fleming wrote in the novels. He only toned down the misogyny aspect of the character.
Unfortunately, I don't get to comment here too much because I've become a television youtube viewer. Nevertheless, I waned to jump online real quick because I love your channel, man! Loving the vlogs, too. Keep this up. My military buddies (who are obv James Bond fans) also love your channel. Made my whole morning when i saw this pop up as a new video.
Also License to Kill is one of my favs. People give me crap when I say Dalton is probably my favorite representation of James Bond. I'm not lying, though. He's a cold, blunt instrument of gov't. People like that can still get emotional, it's not just Anton Chigurh's running around. His Bond is very believable as someone who does in fact work as an intelligence officer and/or in operations.
I'm surprised at how much Lyrith liked Licence To Kill seeing as how she was pretty lukewarm on The Living Daylights. Excellent video! It's hilarious how easily Lyrith picked up that Lupe was hooking up with James to make Pam jealous. That's why you need a woman's perspective on these movies haha.
This is my favorite Bond film with my second favorite Bond actor. (Sean Connery is my first).
The Living Daylights is the most romantic 007 movie ever, followed by TSWLM & LALD❤
Live And Let Die?
32:05 The Felix Lighter 🤣
An in-joke, an 'Easter' reference to Live and Let Die 🎬
Always enjoy these videos. I love LTK. So ahead of its time. Dalton and Davi are brilliant. Great story and action. Top 3 Bond film for me. Wow, some very high scores from Lyrith. Love it. I do agree about the locations. Not bad. But not top tier.
"Its a suprise you're gonna like it"
(Sanchez to Bond)
Elements of the movie’s story were borrowed from one of Ian Fleming’s Bond short stories, *The Hildebrand Rarity* .
This is your favourite Bond film, mines too. Dalton really sold me on the gritty Bond out for Revenge long before Daniel Craig. Carey Lowell is also my favourite Bond girl of all time.
DutchBondFan looking supercool in his Roger Moore style LALD black sweater.
Let's see what Lyrith's reaction will be with this one.
Have never rated LTK all this highly myself personally, I'm in the Joe Darlington camp who see's the movie as just a late 80s Joel Silver high octane type copycat movie.
But happy for those who do enjoy the movie.
This comment is for Lyrith. I think the main reason why it is called Isthmus City instead of Mexico is because of Sanchez controlling that city. Sanchez is so powerful, he have the President of Isthmus City on his payroll. Very simular on why Jamaica is called San Monique on Live And Let Die.
I think San Monique was more of a depiction of Haiti, but yes you're right in Ishtmus!
@@DutchBondFan You know what? You can be right 😂
This one's my favorite too! Criminally underrated.
Hey Jeroen and Lyrith. Thank you for another fantastic review
Good reaction from lyrith
Great reaction guys.Glad Lyrith enjoyed this one a lot more than TLD ( I think she wud like it more on a rewatch now she’s used to Dalton ).This is one of my fav Bonds as well and it’s a shame Dalton didn’t get to do a few more.
One massive plot hole in this one is that Sanchez escapes mere hours after being caught and NO ONE BOTHERS TO INFORM LEITER AND BOND! I realise it had to happen to set the story in motion but that didn’t make any sense.
You guys shud also give Indy 4 a watch,it’s the weakest but it wud be worth it if anything just to be ready for Indy 5 later this year.
I love both movies. My favorite Bond girl is Kara from The Living Daylights but Pam is a close second. I say Kara was the stronger of the two women: remember she lived during the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia so she had been brutalized by the KGB. And yet, she still held her ground and didn't take crap from anyone.
6:25
"But you already have my heart."
Put a ring on her finger and don't lose her.
Considering that in the classic series, American Bond girls didn't tend to do so well, (coughs, Stacey Sutton), Pam Bouvier seems to be a nice outlier. However, as awesome as Carey Lowell is in the role, she wasn't the first choice for the part. That was actually Lea Thompson. Having met her myself, I'm not sure if she would've handled the action, but I can definitely see her having wonderful chemistry with Timothy Dalton. But then again, she was busy with the "Back To The Future" sequels at the time, so she couldn't take the role. Still, Carey Lowell is perfect in the role. Fun fact, Carey Lowell and I don't just share the same birthday, but I was born on her 40th birthday.
I originally saw this film at the odeon marble arch even though it was a 15 certificate it was cut until in landed on blu ray we’re it was uncut
Fun fact: Lupi and the chinese agent are also in Mortal Kombat 1995 as Kitana and Shang Tsung
I had such a thing for Talisa Soto after Mortal Kombat! I was happy to realize she was also in this, one of my top 10 Bonds.
Oh yeah that’s right!
@29:43 I've never noticed that. Cool little detail.
You can see this was the template for the Daniel Craig era Bond. And as they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
One HUGE fan of the Dalton films was none other than Christopher Nolan. The plane hijacking scene in The Dark Knight was influenced by this movie.
@largol33t12 yes Nolan is a big fan and always has sly winks in his films to Bond.
6:26 Awwwww! ❤
Awesome reaction video!
Love this film. Dalton is the most underrated bond
The criticism leveled at him is just unfair. The most pathetic one is when critics whined about him using a Welsh accent. Come on! James Bond has been played by a Scot, an Australian and an Irishman. Some movie critics should look for a new hobby if they criticize movies about silly stuff like that.
Felix being fed to the shark is actually taken from the novel Live and Let Die.
I made the mistake of reading John Gardner's novelisation before seeing the movie. As a result, the 1st time I watched it, I was somewhat disappointed. I only went to see it twice, as opposed to 4 times for LIVING DAYLIGHTS. But boy, did it grow on me. I always remember the time in late 1992 when I got laid off from a job where my boss had treated me like crap for 15 months. When I got home, I put on the 2nd half of this film (which I'd started the night before) and the first scene that came up was, "So tell me, what do you do for a living?" "I'm temporarily UNEMPLOYED." A real Twilight Zone moment!
Bond really screwed up in this film... over and over! Yet, luck is with him, as each time he does, he still manages to get one step closer to his goal. I bet, if he hadn't set fire to the lab, he might have been able to TALK his way out of Dario's accusations, as he'd gotten so close to Sanchez by that point. It still blows my mind that ONE "small" lab explosion somehow spread and managed to destroy that entire huge complex. I guess Sanchez never invested in a sprinkler system. Typical bad-guy narrow-thinking.
M's attitude reminds me of OHMSS when he said, "This office is NOT interested in your PERSONAL affairs." But he still wishes Bond good luck... A really smart boss would have re-assigned Bond to work WITH the CIA, DEA, etc. to take down Sanchez officially, since, who else by then ever got so close to nailing him? I suppose this is one of the biggest reasons why I like Simon Templar more than James Bond. Templar does occasional favors for British Intelligence, but for the most part, he works FOR HIMSELF. I love how Q refuses to go home and continues to help, as does Pam. Carey Lowell has such beautiful eyes...
The scene where Bond drops from the one-engine plane onto the back of the tanker always reminds me of the climax of Leslie Charter's 1931 novel "The Avenging Saint" (also known as "Knight Templar"), where Simon drops from a plane onto the roof of a speeding train, trying to catch up with the villain responsible for the death of a good friend of his in the previous novel, "The Last Hero". I find it so bizarre that one of the villains in those books only ever appeared on film ONCE, in "THE SAINT'S VACATION" (1941), as played by Cecil Parker. Every time I watch that film, I think Parker was the closest thing in any SAINT film to a Bond villain.
Claudio Brook, the Mexican actor who played the bank manager, I've also seen as the main villain in "Santo en el museo de cera" (SANTO IN THE WAX MUSEUM / 1963), one of countless Mexican films starring the famous masked professional wrestler hero. Watching that some months ago, I kept staring at the guy wondering where I'd seen him!
David Hedison is probably my favorite Felix Leiter, he was one of the best things in LIVE AND LET DIE, and watching VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, I keep wishing he'd been Felix in every film back when. In a reference to LIVE AND LET DIE, Sanchez is killed by "a genuine Felix lighter"!
6:26 Lyrith is so effin cute :D
Back when James Bond was fun. Out every two years and produced by people who cared about the fans and not their own wallets. Time to sell Bond to someone who cares.
Steven Spielberg, he literally crafted indiana jones to be like james bond since he was a huge fan of the series
Thanks from Canada
Raj Singh
Great reaction my favorite 🔥
Jeroen, I may have commented already, but just in case, there is a New Hampshire car registration plate: BE-007.
The movie may be good, but it feels too much like an generic action movie from the era. I always find it difficult when Bond films take place in the US, same with Diamonds, Live and Let Die and View to a Kill. Somehow this takes away from the European, more sophisticated style.
I agree. I think TLD(1987) is much more sophisticated/glamorous movie than LTK(1989). TLD is like expensive rare Scotch whisky and LTK is like cheap American bourbon whiskey. Still, a very enjoyable revenge movie!
To date, is LTK the only Bond film that has Bond spend the entire movie in North America (I'm including the Caribbean)? Because there's one scene in the whole movie set in London and Bond isn't in it. Same as how Bond spends all of YOLT in Asia and that movie too features a scene set on another continent that Bond isn't in. It's the quick scene in the cold open where British diplomats are mediating a meeting between US and Soviet officials in Alaska.
Bit of a tangent but what are your thoughts [if you've seen it] on 2004's Man on Fire which is a Denzel Washington revenge film directed by Tony Scott? There is a slight Bond connection as Washington is aided on his quest by Christopher Walken and Giancarlo Giannini [Mathis].
It's pretty wild just how mutch Bond started to ape the trends, just like eyebrow cinema said he did!
Bond was copying trends as far back as From Russia with Love (Hitchcock), LaLD (blaxploitation), MwtGG (kung fu), and Moonraker (Star Wars). Kept going with QoS (Bourne action scenes) and Skyfall (Dark Knight). Not a complaint, I love those movies.
@@paulthomas3247. Then I recommend eyebrow cinema's video on"her majesty's secret service"!
ahh thats interesting 00:49 as I'm aware lots of people are mixed to negative to this movie. Its definitely has gotten better with people over time. The movie alienated a lot of people growing up with it being a 15 rating and nasty moments. It was the Quantem of Solace of its day.
the line "things were about to turn nasty" when he has coffee with Sanchez, everyone agrees that Tims Northern English accent comes through really strong. Especially the way he says "Nasty" or Nasteyr" as we hear it :)
34:18 and 44:23 thats quite surprising actually. I know if it had to be a Dalton movie with friends, we would sit and watch this one as it is quite entertaining at the very least.
Great stuff man. I'll be curious with what Lyrith will think of Goldeneye. All the best man :)
7:38 - Pretty great person, too
Jereon since LTK was the most darkest and most violent bond flim, can you picture Daniel Craig Bond being in this movie?
Sure
Ook 1 van m'n favoriete Bondfilms. Geweldige reacties van jullie beide weer :) Ik zie nu al uit naar GoldenEye!
It was not an actor who lived at the Hemingway house. It was Hemingway the writer.
But of course it was!
Not my favorite Bond, but it was one of my favorite Lyrith reviews. Nice job, guys. Thanks.
Oh license to kill, quite a lot to say about this one as I remember watching it as a kid. Cause this was before Daniel Craig's time, where to start. Dalton at his finest with the revenge plot, which becomes his goldfinger moment. Q out helping is amazing and pretty much captolizes on it from octopussy. The bond girls are something, and for the actor Robert darvy he was born to play the bond villien like chrispher Lee. Pedro amandalz Jr the son of the late Pedro also a great high light and the opening shot which would be used by Mr Nolen, amazing. So overall license to kill was the good film at the wrong time, which resulted in Dalton leaving the franchise and of couse the cold war ending and legal issues with the mgm also had a hand, but overall it did set up the blueprint for the Craig era years later in 2006. If you want to know more, I'll be happy to open for discussions. Plus the tank truck chase at the end is amazing and a way to end the 80's.
'Stupid Bond' that was awesome
I think most of the people in this movie are still alive.
Did Lyrith look to the camera on purpose during the wedding scene?
Could have been so much better with a different director. Imagine Carey Fukunaga or Danny Boyle handling this story. They should remake as a real hard edge psychological thriller.
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This is a film i loved in the old days but now don't rate as highly. That is the opposite of the way it seems to be for others.
The movie is classy, the intro sequence is timeless, the execution, the villain, everything but except the ending scenes feel rushed.
18:50 it works because of the Implication (ua-cam.com/video/-yUafzOXHPE/v-deo.html)
I feel it’s a good, solid action film but to me not a great Bond film. Dalton was good & you can’t really fault him but I just feel it misses a lot of the traditional Bond elements
When are you guys doing GoldenEye?
Getting to that one soon!
Ah ah ah ! It is a joke of course but looks like you are condamning your girlfriend to watch every Bond film (and more than on time) 😂😂😂
Hy Jeronimo, there´s a feedback for you! The series Recaping JB was much better than this Movie Reaction! Non sense!
I don't understand mix couples in Europe. How can you call yourself dutch as you are mixed.
You're like a American couple
Even being politically conservative minded myself, I find this quite repulsive to be honest. Here in the Netherlands, being Dutch means there are lots of Indonesian and Surinamese people from our colonial history living here. So that mix is exceptionally Dutch
@@DutchBondFan so you basically own them as pets.. 😆