Licence to Kill 'Better Than I Remember' Shocker!

I remember it as one of the worst Bond movies and starring arguably the worst Bond, but Licence to Kill is actually a great 80's action movie and worthy of its place in the ActionClub pantheon.

High points of the movie include:

The chastising of Talisa Soto by Robert Davi with what appears to be (but probably isn't) a rubber lizard.

A bar fight worthy of a Burt Reynolds movie where some bad-guy goon tries to impale our hero with a stuffed swordfish.

The truck-end of an articulated lorry pulling a wheelie to drive through the flaming twisted remains of other trucks.

Robert Davi killing a lesser cohort using the pressure chamber aboard his boat until his balloon head goes pop-splatter!

If this wasn't a Bond movie, it would have been much easier to accept the overall 80's crapness of it, but looking at it in hindsight, and without too much of a bias towards the top end of the Bond quality scale, it's a very entertaining movie with good deaths, adequate post-mortem one-liners, and satisfying come-uppance for the bad guys.

ActionClub Tonight

In an increasingly sporadic series of get-togethers, tonight, ActionClub will be getting together to witness one of the worst Bond films ever made in the shape of Licence To Kill. It's from the 80's, it's topical (due to the next Bond movie being released in a weeks time) and has a wedding at the start (relevent to several AC members who have either got married recently, or plan to in the near future - congratulations to them).

With a near legendary dream-team of a cast of Talisa Soto, Carey Lowell, Timothy 'Tim' Dalton and legendary bad-guy/stupid chief, Robert Davi, I just hope to God it's worth it.