Licence to Kill (1989)
Directed by John Glen
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
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No, like some of the darkest and most interesting James Bond films (say, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service or Licence to Kill ), Skyfall is about the legendary super-spy’s personal life.
This tension of old vs new, tradition vs innovation, has kept Bond on his toes over the years, occasionally resulting in offerings that fail to strike a chord with mass cinemagoers (eg the violent Licence to Kill ) or give the series a shot in the arm ( GoldenEye 's clever winks to series tropes).
You might think that 6 actors and 50 years blows a hole in continuity anyway, but how much easier things seemed before the half-reboot, when Licence to Kill could make a direct reference to Tracy’s death in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and we could suspend our disbelief enough to imagine these movies as the ongoing adventures of the same man.
It’s been happening since Blofeld killed his wife in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” and later a drug dealer fed his friend Felix Leiter to sharks in “Licence to Kill.”