Plus Everett McGill! Big Ed himself, playing another character named Ed, no less! I will say though, I did not love this one. There are a few fun actor sightings that I didn’t expect to see, particularly Benicio Del Toro as Franz’s heavy. James Bond: Timothy Dalton Moneypenny: Caroline Bliss M: Robert Brown Q: Desmond Llewelyn Bond Girl (Pam Bouvier): Carey Lowell Bond Girl (Lupe Lamora). He’s a ruthless murderer with endless income and a new untraceable type of cocaine that dissolves completely in gasoline and can be reformed later. Franz (Robert Davi) the drug lord’s massive estate is beautiful to look at, and Franz’s plot is fun to follow. Licence To Kill doesn’t have all that many standout moments, but what it lacks in action it makes up for with its stellar supporting cast and gorgeous locations. Everything from Afghanistan on is a snore, except the admittedly pretty cool Uncharted 3-esque cargo plane fight, but by that time I had given up caring. Businessman Tom Fiske (Don Murray) accidentally kills a high school girl while driving drunk, leading to a trial where he faces a manslaughter charge. Pacing has not exactly been this series’ strong suit, but I’m struggling to remember it being fumbled this badly before. The first half of the movie is great fun, but it seriously loses its way about halfway through when it slows down to a crawl. He has an Agent 47-like quality to him, using disguises to worm his way in anywhere and everywhere and a deadly efficiency as if his every move has been planned out weeks in advance. The film actually had a pretty scary heavy too in Necros (Andreas Wisniewski). The sequence segues into another goofy and fun chase when Bond and Kara Milovy (Maryam d’Abo) sled down a snowy mountain on the back of her cello case while being shot at and pursued by tons of skiing goons. The Living Daylights contains a few of my favorite action scenes I’ve seen in this franchise, particularly the – dare I say – franchise-best car chase atop a frozen lake, wherein Bond comically uses the rim of his car to cut a gigantic circle in the ice and drown a police car.
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