#LICENCE TO KILL UPDATE#

In 'Licence to Kill,' however, the use of a drug kingpin named Sanchez ( Robert Davi) and his henchmen ( Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae) is apparently part of an attempt to update the whole series and make it feel more contemporary. Sure, they die in the end, but they have a lot of fun in the meantime. I've grown uneasy lately about the fashion of portraying drug smugglers in glamorous lifestyles they're viewed with some of the same glamor as gangsters were, in films of the 1930s. The third is that the villain has fairly modest aims, for a change he doesn't want to rule the world, he only wants to be a cocaine billionaire. The second is that the tempo has been picked up, possibly in response to the escalating pace of the Rambo and Indiana Jones movies. One is that the Bond character, as played now for the second time by Timothy Dalton, has become less of a British icon and more of an international action hero. Within this framework of tradition, 'Licence to Kill' nevertheless manages to spring some interesting surprises.

There are few surprises, and the changes are evolutionary, so that the latest Bond picture is recognizable as a successor to the first, 'Dr. Connoisseurs evaluate the elements in a Bond picture as if they were movements in a symphony, or courses in a meal.

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