Licence to Kill (1989)

Plot Summary:
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.

Cast overview:

Timothy Dalton .......... James Bond
Carey Lowell ............ Pam Bouvier
Robert Davi ............. Franz Sanchez
Talisa Soto ............. Lupe Lamora
Anthony Zerbe ........... Milton Krest
Frank McRae ............. Sharkey
Everett McGill .......... Killifer
Wayne Newton ............ Professor Joe Butcher
Benicio Del Toro ........ Dario
Anthony Starke .......... Truman-Lodge
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. .... President Hector Lopez
Desmond Llewelyn ........ Q
David Hedison ........... Felix Leiter
Priscilla Barnes ........ Della Churchill
Robert Brown (I) ........ M