license to kill ( 1989 ) be an inanely dismal installment to the bond franchise that be best forgotten . it star timothy dalton in his second and final performance . after aid old time friend and fbi man and felix leiter ( david hedison ) in a drug bust and and stand up for felix at his wedding and bond return hour later to discover felix wife be dead and that felix be barely cling to life after be feed to a shark . seem drug lord and franz sanchez ( robert davi ) be none too thrilled about bond and leiter bust . from his posh villa in mexico and sanchez be perfectly content to let bygone be bygone . but bond want revenge . tell to drop thing by his superior and bond defies the british government and be strip of his double o ranking and embark upon a campaign of revenge . to this end he seem perfectly in tune with the aspiration of pam bouvier ( carey lowell ) and an undercover fbi agent assign to pick up where felix leave off . together and bond and bouvier prowl the back street of mexico city and do battle with sanchez psychotic henchman and dario ( a very young and benicio del toro ) while bond attempt to bleed sanchez maul and lupe lamore ( talisa soto ) for information . what be particularly disappointing about this film be the sudden absence of fundamental element that we have come to expect from a bond movie while scantily clad woman and witty one liner and memorable action sequence and above all else a certain amount of seriousness on the part of the actor to suspend the audience in the art of make believe . but there be nothing even remotely engage about a misguided vignette that have wayne newton cast a a charlatan leader of a religious cult . nor be there anything memorable about the brief moment of action that round out an otherwise boring movie in which the bulk of the plot concentrate on sanchez sneering and plot while other men with gun shoot it out with bond and bouvier . mgm or ua dvd be the absolute bad transfer of any of the bond movie . riddle in aliasing and pixelization and shimmering of fine detail and severe edge enhancement and the video be never stable long enough to appreciate the story such a it be . color be date with overly pink flesh tone and weak contrast level and a generally gritty digital that be distract to say the least . black be more deep gray and white be either blooming or dull and age relate artifact be quite obvious throughout much more so than expect for a film of this vintage . the audio be stereo surround and but be generally strident and lack in bass . extra include two documentary and audio commentary and promotional material and the film theatrical trailer .