Felicitations good readers and welcome
to Day 4 of Timothy Dalton Week and here's to a fun week thus far.
As many of you know, Dalton wore the guise of Bond only twice given
the delays, arguments and lengthy litigation causing the grinding
halt of the third movie. While waiting for this to right itself, he
was kept busy with Christopher Columbus: The Discovery but ultimately
lost the role to Gerard Depardieu Columbus movie causing bankruptcy.
Thankfully the mini-series: Scarlett had appeared in time and gave
him the funding needed for the year as well as endearing himself to
the American public allowing him to grace the small screen. Tired
of the run-around and the need for new challenges for his acting
chops. He took his leave and forfeited his latter three Bond movies.
This is Licence to Kill.
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| Gasp! Bond gets the girl! |
In route with Felix Leiter's (David
Hedison of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Romance Theatre, Fantasy
Island, The Love Boat, The Colbys and Mach 2) impending
nuptials, He and Bond (Timothy Dalton) get a tip that
known druglord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi of The Goonies, Die
Hard, Maniac Cop 2, Predator 2, Profiler, Maniac Cop 3: Badge of
Silence and Night Trap) with James at his side, they manage
to capture Sanchez before he made it to international waters,
dropping him in the clink and arraigning him for prison as the groom
and best man made it in the nick of time for the wedding. The happy
couple are ended abruptly as Sanchez was released at a costly amount
dispatches Leiter's wife and leaves Leiter to a man eating tiger
shark. The joint effort of CIA and DEA found Leiter and informed
Bond.
Not on assignment, Bond proceeds to
look into Leiter's attack and Sanchez's miraculous escape, creating
some international incident with local PD, and CIA. So much
destruction and mayhem causes MI-6 agents to accompany M (Robert
Brown of Kill Me Tomorrow, Ivanhoe, Shake Hands with the Devil, It
Takes a Thief, Escape by Night, Octopussy, A View to a Kill and The
Living Daylights) to collect Bond, bring him in for
questioning, reprimand and cancelling his authority as a Double O.
Our seasoned veteran disables his fellow MI-6 agents without killing
them and fled into the day.
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| So who is this Kaiser Soze anyway? |
Trailing the money, Bond encounters
Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto of Licence to Kill, The Mambo Kings,
Hostage, Harts of the West, Mortal Kombat, Spy Hard, Vampirella and
The Island of the Dead), Sanchez's gilded lover who warns
James to not anger a man as powerful as Sanchez but Bond views this
as a matter of honor for his fallen friend. Managing to get a hold
of Sanchez's laundered money and finding more information for the
lovely CIA agent Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell of Club Paradise, Me
and Him, Sleepless in Seattle, A League of Their Own, Leaving Las
Vegas, Fierce Creatures and Law & Order), which of course
requires a fist and fire fight and naturally she is smitten by James
and well... you know how that works. Will James be able to thwart
Sanchez? Can he get his revenge? Will he ever return to MI-6??
Just a few observations at this time.
This is a loosely re-write of Live and Let Die dealing with political
corruption fueled by a drug cartel that only Bond seems to be able to
handle. While I am not a huge fan of this era getting away from the
latter Roger Moore standing, this is a vastly underrated Bond movie,
providing both an amazing pace of action and story with a solid
running time of 130 minutes. Granted the truck chase scene took a
bit longer for my tastes but all in all, it was a good flick.
The most impressive aspect of this
movie was Robert Davi's villain was not camp but sinister and on par
with Bond's convictions and morals. A well flushed out character
bringing his "A" game for it. Director John
Glen is a pro at this game with Bond films (For Your
Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, Checkered Flag and
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery) as well as an editor for
several of them gives time, love and effort and in this critic's
humble opinion felt he did the name of Bond justice. Besides how
many films can you say have Wayne Newton and Benicio Del Toro's film
debut?
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| Truly miss my Beretta. |
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James 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well; that demons also believe, and shudder.
Strange that demons believe in God, but atheists claim they do not believe there is a God.
Mark 1:23-24 Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24 saying, "What business do we have with each other Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are---The Holy One of God!"
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ATHEISTS DENY THAT GOD EXISTS, BUT DO THEY REALLY BELIEVE IT?
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