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.
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