Licence To Kill
I enjoyed this one a lot. Easily the most brutal of the Bond movies, and I'm pretty sure this is the closest any of the movies so far got to the literary Bond. Dalton amps up the simmering rage that's held back by cold professionalism, and cuts right down on the quips. Like the literary Bond, the closest he gets to jokes are sardonic asides. He's like a wolf in this, watching, weighing the options, waiting to rip out a throat or go for the kill.
Also the writers revisited the Bond library somewhat by including two plot elements from different Bond stories - Leiter getting fed to a shark is straight out of the book of Live and Let Die, including the joke "He Disagreed with something that ate him", along with another element from LALD, the use of a fish company to hide smuggling, and a reference to an odd short story entitled "The Hildebrand Rarity", which concerns a cruel husband who uses a short stubby whip on his wife. There's also a quick reference to the fact Bond was married once before, a long time ago.
To continue the Live and Let Die link, Felix Leiter is played by the same actor who played him in the LALD movie (I don't think Leiter was ever played by the same guy twice in any other movies).
It's pretty cool when Bond gets reeled in by M at the start and resigns, and there's a hint of menace when M announces "This isn't a country club, 007!", but Bond escapes and goes rogue in a revenge-fuelled bloodbath (well, relative bloodbath - he's not The Punisher, after all).
The villain was pretty good in this - Sanchez, played by Robert Davi. Good turn from him. Right blend of true menace and Bond villain overblown-ness.
I also appreciated the fact the story was relatively linear.
I really liked the main female lead - she was cute and self-reliant, and a reasonable actress. The other female character in this, however, who played Sanchez' girlfirend, was a brutally bad actress - her line deliveries were terrible.
Overall, I think this one tends to be forgotten, but it's solid, and about as far from the Moore era Bonds as the series could get.
74/100