Timothy Dalton and director John Glen both return in a revenge tale after David Hedison's Felix Leiter gets killed post wedding. Dalton is in his last big role before becoming a villain in The Rocketeer. I saw that Talisa Soto looked familiar and I was first thinking Hotshots Part Deux, but turns out she was in Mortal Kombat. Also in Mortal Kombat, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa shows up working with Bond as well. Carey Lowell and Talisa Soto form a sort of love triangle with James. Grand Bush on the other hand was in Street Fighter. Villain Robert Davi was once in Die Hard, Goonies and Expendables. A 21 year old Benicio Del Toro shows up here in a kind of bit villain role. I recognized Anthony Zerbe, but I did have to look up where from - which happens to be The Matrix Reloaded as a Councillor that Neo talks to in one scene. MI6 doesn't think the drug lord that killed Leiter is worth investigating, bars Bond so he can't carry his license kill. Bond joins Lowell's Pam Bouvier and goes undercover. Q even gets involved here. The first time I watched it, I was not ready for what was given. Dalton's Living Daylights was fresh and fun, but this one just seemed to go too dark. I feel I ranked it more appropriately this time. Only Majesty and Live Twice have been rated this high by the two sites. Dalton wasn't pushed out due to box office or performance, but his contract did run out while MGM was going through legal issues. It took 6 years before the next movie. The last time Producer Albert Broccoli was on a set and retired. The budget wasn't very large and EON was still paying off Moonraker. The cold war was ending so they wanted to do something different and China was a target but couldn't get done. The first PG-13 Bond made 175 million but was still short of expectations.
| Movie | IMDB | Rot. Tom. | Rot. Tom. Aud. | 2012 Rank | 2024 Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12. License to Kill | 6.7 | 80% | 61% | 15 | 8 |
| 13. You Only Live Twice | 6.8 | 74% | 69% | 19 | 17 |
| 14. For Your Eyes Only | 6.7 | 69% | 64% | 21 | 9 |
| 15. On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 6.7 | 81% | 64% | 24 | 15 |
| 16. Moonraker | 6.2 | 60% | 43% | 5 | 14 |
| 17. Live and Let Die | 6.7 | 67% | 64% | 16 | 20 |
| 18. Octopussy | 6.5 | 42% | 47% | 12 | 11 |
| 19. The Man with the Golden Gun | 6.7 | 42% | 55% | 7 | 26 |
| 20. Quantum of Solace | 6.5 | 64% | 58% | 18 | 23 |
| 21. The World Is Not Enough | 6.4 | 51% | 49% | 8 | 25 |
| 22. Never Say Never Again | 6.1 | 71% | 37% | 17 | 18 |
| 23. A View to Kill | 6.3 | 37% | 40% | 9 | 21 |
| 24. Tomorrow Never Dies | 6.5 | 57% | 53% | 20 | 22 |
| 25. Diamonds are Forever | 6.5 | 64% | 57% | 23 | 24 |
| 26. Die Another Day | 6.1 | 55% | 41% | 22 | 19 |
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