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Licence to Kill
1989
· Movie
· 133 min
C
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2920
- IMDb #2864
- Google retired #2697
- Rotten Tomatoes #2397
- Metacritic #2624
- Letterboxd #2663
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2137
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3216
- Metacritic Critics #2667
- Metacritic Audience #2535
- Criticker #2265
- Douban #1595
- Kinopoisk #2823
- AlloCiné #2560
- Trakt #2958
Every rating
43–80
out of 100
A secret agent's wedding celebration is shattered when a ruthless drug lord attacks and maims his best friend. Denied official permission for revenge, the agent goes rogue, having his license to kill revoked. He embarks on a personal vendetta to systematically dismantle the drug lord's operation, infiltrating his organization to bring him down by any means necessary, outside the law.
Details
- Director
- John Glen
- Writers
- Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum
- Based on
- James Bond by Ian Fleming
- Released
- 13 June 1989
- Country
- Mexico, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $32.0M
- Box office
- $156.2M
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