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The Timothy Dalton era of Bond saw a much tougher agent – much nearer to Ian Fleming’s creation.

 Though it maintained several of the Bond tropes – title theme, pre credits scene, shaken not stirred etc – Licence to Kill really does a lot more different with the character than it does the same. It’s a markedly different tone of film even from its own predecessor, and it dispenses with a lot of the wackier elements which had been allowed to flourish under Moore’s tenure.

Greg D. Smith’s journey through the Bond films continues here, and for our other essays in the series, click here.