James Bond 007, Licence to Kill. Declassification of the 16th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• en route to Felix's wedding, gets sidetracked helping Felix and the DEA try to bust drug lord Sanchez while one of his planes is smuggling into the Keys. Drops by wire from Coast Guard helicopter onto Sanchez's getaway plane, ties wire around plane's tail to hook it and put it under the helicopter's control and then parachutes down with Felix to his wedding ceremony

Title Song/Credits

• "License to Kill" by Gladys Knight
• women taking and in photographs, shooting pistols and naked silhouetted women doing gymnastics

Villains

• Franz Sanchez, drug lord using gasoline tankers to traffic drugs dissolved in gasoline (Robert Davi)
• Dario, Sanchez's bodyguard (Benicio Del Toro)
• Milton Krest, key member of Sanchez's drug cartel operating in the Keys under the cover of a marine research company (Anthony Zerbe)
• Colonel Heller, Sanchez's head of security (Don Stroud)
• Braun, Sanchez's chief henchmen (Guy De Saint Cyr)
• Ed Killifer, cop who sells out for $2 million to help Sanchez escape (Everett McGill)
• Joe Butcher, meditation professor and MC of drug sales under the cover of charity fund raisers (Wayne Newton)
• Truman-Lodge, Sanchez's chief financial officer (Anthony Starke)

Girls

• Pam Bouvier, freelance pilot and Bond's executive secretary (Carey Lowell)
• Lupe Lamora, Sanchez's mistress (Talisa Soto)
• Della Churchill, Felix's bride (Priscilla Barnes)
• Loti, narcotics agent (Diana Lee-Hsu)
• stripper (Jeannine Bisignano)

Gadgets

• tanker cab with cruise control
• plane with dust release
• miniature shark hunter submarine
• remote-controlled miniature transport submarine
• signature gun camera with optical palm recognition
• camera with laser flash
• Dentonite plastic explosive toothpaste with cigarette detonator
• rappelling-rope-concealing cummerbund
• radio broom

Chases

• tanker chased by tanker on winding mountain roads with one tanker passing the other and slamming it in the side into mountain rocks
• tanker cab chased by pickup through fiery remains of exploded tankers
• plane chased by helicopter, ending in helicopter hooking and capturing the plane by wire
• barefoot waterskiing behind a seaplane chased by gunmen in a motorboat

Binds

• caught by a guard while discovering drugs stashed in a vat of mollusks, throws handful of mollusks in guard's face and flips him into the vat
• being hunted by a guard, uses a pole hook to hook guard's belt and pull him down into an electric eel tank
• caught by Killifer and about to be put in shark pit, uses Sharkey's distraction to knock Killifer over and then into shark pit
• with air tank hose cut by other divers, outfights a few of the divers, gets one of their spear guns, shoots it into a pontoon of a seaplane passing overhead, and gets pulled to the surface
• being shot at by gunmen in a motorboat, barefoot waterskis up to and onto one of seaplane's pontoons just before it takes off
• dangling from bottom of seaplane as the pilot tries to shake him loose, climbs aboard and takes control of the plane, throwing both men out of the plane into the ocean below
• confronted by Dario and his men in a club while talking with Pam, outfights the men with Pam's assistance and gets away by boat
• caught and bound by narcotics agents that have been working to set up Sanchez to see the heart of his operation, Heller, his men and Sanchez cannon attack the hideout, then discover Bond bound and mistakenly conclude the agents must have tried to kill him and Bond must be an ally
• asked by Sanchez to stay at his home, sneaks out with Lupe's help, completes a setup of Krest so Sanchez thinks he stole from him and used the money to fund the attack on his life, then sneaks back to Sanchez's home before he is missed
• put on a conveyor belt to be sent into the drug grinder, holds onto the end of the conveyor long enough for Pam to arrive, shoot Dario and send him into the grinder instead
• hanging under tanker being shot at by a machine gun, climbs up into cab, sprays fire extinguisher in driver's face and takes control of the tanker
• driving tanker and about to be fired on by Braun with a stinger missile, uses an incline to get tanker up on nine wheels, lets stinger go past him and into other tanker behind, then sets tanker back down on eighteen wheels on top of Braun's jeep
• getting behind other tankers and needing to stop them, jackknifes tanker to a stop on edge of road and releases tanker down mountain side into tanker on road below, exploding both tankers
• with road blocked by fiery remains of exploded tankers, pops a wheelie in tanker cab to get through
• needing to get to Sanchez in the last remaining tanker, puts his tanker cab on cruise control, climbs through broken windshield onto hood and jumps onto back of tanker
• being shot at from pickup truck with fiery tires, opens tanker valve to leave a trail of gasoline, further ignite the pickup and cause it to veer out of control over a cliff, narrowly missing a midair collision with Pam's plane
• fighting Sanchez on the back of a tanker with no brakes and no driver, tanker tumbles down slope - both men are bloodied but survive for a showdown
• about to be hacked by Sanchez with a machete, lights him on fire with the lighter Felix and Della gave him as a best man gift

One-liners

• "I'll do anything for a woman with a knife," to Della when she asks him to cut the wedding cake
• "Bon appetit," to guard after flipping him into a vat of mollusks
• "You earned it, you keep it, old buddy," to Killifer just before he throws the suitcase with the $2 million at him and knocks him and the money into the shark pit
• "I guess it's a farewell to arms," to M as he's about to hand over his pistol after resigning from the Secret Service to settle the score with Sanchez for killing Della and badly injuring Felix
• "I hope you don't snore, Q" after Pam takes the master bedroom and leaves Bond to the secondary bedroom with Q
• "Looks like he came to a dead end," to Pam after they discover Heller impaled on a forklift prong after Bond planted a seed of suspicion in Sanchez that Heller was going to steal his stinger missiles
• "So why don't you ask?" to Pam after kissing her and her saying, "Why don't you wait until your asked?"

Locations

• Mexico
• Florida Keys and Miami, United States

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