![]() However, it is in the hills outside Isthmus City that Bond is finally found out. After surviving a kidnapping by Hong Kong Narcotics and MI6 agents, Sanchez allows Bond into his inner circle, having gained his trust after calling out all the apparently dodgy characters in the drug line. From here on in, Bond blitzes a surreptitious and clever trail through every one of Sanchez’s middle men. Avoiding MI6 bullets as he escapes from his former chief, he picks up freelance/CIA pilot Pam Bouvier to act as his secretary in Republic de Isthmus, a fictional but Panama-like Latin American country with Sanchez in control of every utility and public official. 007 becomes just Commander Bond after he refuses a mission and his licence to kill is revoked. The rest of the film focuses on 007’s personal quest for revenge, after Leiter is mauled by a shark and his wife tragically murdered at the behest of an escaped Sanchez. ![]() After an airfield shootout and Sanchez’s Cessna-borne escape, all appears to be lost – until Bond suggests they go fishing! One incredible mid-air stunt later, Sanchez is in the bag and Leiter is off the market. Putting the wedding plans on hold, they board the helicopter and fly in pursuit of Sanchez. They have a very small opportunity to catch and arrest Franz Sanchez, Latin America’s most powerful drug lord, and both Bond and Leiter know it is an opportunity neither will get again. Felix Leiter, Bond’s old CIA sparring partner, is getting married, and who is the Best Man but 007 himself? Timothy Dalton reprises the role of Bond for the second time here, and the first thing you ask is…what the Devil is going on with his hair?Įn route to Felix Leiter’s wedding in Miami, Bond and the groom are pulled over by a Drug Enforcement Agency helicopter. The film starts out in an interesting way. In 1989, this sixteenth entry in the vast cinematic canon of James Bond polarised fans and critics alike, and this has not changed in the slightest over the last 23 years. – Raymond Benson, former Bond continuation novelist ![]() There’s really more of a true Ian Fleming story in that script than in most of the post-60s Bond movies.” “It boggles my mind that Licence to Kill is so controversial.
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