007 # 16 Licence To Kill

Action, Adventure, Thriller

Timothy Dalton	James Bond
Carey Lowell	Pam Bouvier
Robert Davi	Franz Sanchez
Talisa Soto	Lupe Lamora
Anthony Zerbe	Milton Krest
Frank McRae	Sharkey
David Hedison	Felix Leiter
Wayne Newton	Prof. Joe Butcher
Benicio Del Toro	Dario
Anthony Starke	Truman-Lodge
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.	President Hector Lopez
Priscilla Barnes	Della Churchill
George Belanger	Doctor
Jeannine Bisignano	Stripper
Everett McGill

Director	John Glen (II); John Glen
Producer	Michael G. Wilson; Albert R. Broccoli; Barbara Broccoli
Writer	Michael G. Wilson; Richard Maibaum
Cinematography	Alec Mills
Musician	Michael Kamen

Timothy Dalton's second and last shot at playing James Bond isn't nearly as much fun as his debut, two years earlier, in the 1987 The Living Daylights. This time Bond gets mad after a close friend (David Hedison) from the intelligence sector is assassinated on his wedding day, and 007 goes undercover to link the murder to an international drug cartel. Robert Davi makes an interesting adversary, but as with most of the Bond films in the '70s, '80s, and '90s--and especially since the end of the cold war--one has to wonder why we should still care about these lesser villains and their unimaginative crimes. Still, Dalton did manage in his short time with the character to make 007 his own, which neither Roger Moore did nor Pierce Brosnan did. --Tom Keogh