Product Description

James Bond is catapulted into his most passionate adventure -- not for country, not for justice, but for personal revenge. As Agent 007 turns renegade, Timothy Dalton brings urgency, charm, and deadly determination to his portrayal of the screen's greatest action hero.

When drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) exacts his brutal vengeance on Bond's friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison), 007 resigns from the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta against the master criminal. Bond won't be satisfied until Sanchez is defeated, and to accomplish this aim he allies himself with a beautiful pilot (Carey Lowell) and Sanchez's sexy girlfriend (Talisa Soto). But Bond, relegated to outlaw status, must battle agents on both sides of the law as he discovers the horrifying extent of his prey's resources. In order to bring Sanchez down, Bond must survive a ferocious boat chase, a mid-air brawl over the controls of an out-of-control airplane, and an action-packed confrontation in the Mexico desert.

It's a pulse-pounding thrill ride with awesome stunt sequences, subtle humor, and explosive confrontations. When Bond's licence to kill is revoked, he's more deadly than ever!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31210 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-02-06
• Format: NTSC

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The Blu-ray release of Licence to Kill contains a mixed bag of bonus material, some of which is quite good but little of which takes much advantage of the format's potential. Of the items that do, perhaps the most interesting is an interactive feature (called "007 Mission Control") that allows viewers to jump to specific moments or lines (if you want to hear star Timothy Dalton introduce himself as "Bond… James Bond," here's easy access); there's also a 32-minute behind-the-scenes featurette that includes some new interviews in Blu-ray (with director John Glen, actor Benicio Del Toro, and others--but not Dalton), which appear to have been added to previously existing material. There are two audio commentary tracks, one with Glen and cast members and the other with producer-writer Michael G. Wilson and some of the crew. Elsewhere, Glen introduces about 10 minutes' worth of deleted scenes, while other, shorter featurettes offer insight into some of the film's many effects sequences; a bit about specially made Kenworth trucks that could perform a wheelie or tilt heavily to one side without falling over is quite interesting. Gladys Knight's performance of theme song "If You Asked Me To" is here as well. Overall, though, the features navigation menu is rather clumsy, with the result that gaining access to some of them is more trouble than it's worth. --Sam Graham