Watched Licence to Kill starring Timothy Dalton. The only other time I saw him was as a prince of the forest in Flash Gordon, where he was spry and dashing. In this movie he looks rather tired and is somewhat sluggish. I feel that he was not misdirected--I feel that he was not directed at all, and was pretty much left to his own interpretation of his role. Unfortunately the screenplay renders him, during the first half of the movie, more as a small-town detective rather than as a 00.

The movie comes across as a B-grade, and gives me the impression that the producers tried to save as much money as they could. Most of the settings look like they were shot in friends' buildings and houses as they were, without any production design; only after 3/4 of the movie does that change. There are no spectacular long shots, making the movie look as though it were being shot for television rather than the big screen. Everything was low-tech. The fight routines are old, predictable, and unexciting. But, most of all, to me, it is B-grade in the sense that all of the supports, bit players, and extras were ill-chosen and could not act. The horrible dialogue didn't help them any.

The Living Daylights wouldn't open because it allegedly has a regional code that I can't fix, and so, I am passing on that.