12 Things You Learn Rewatching Licence To Kill

11. The Tone Is Bizarre...But Awesome

In a lot of ways this is the Bond movie that looks and plays the least like a typical Bond movie, even more so than the blaxploitation-styled Live and Let Die.

The only Bond movie to be originally rated "15" by the BBFC, Licence to Kill's grittier and more violent tone certainly isn't to all tastes - especially those who love the high-camp of the Roger Moore years - but it is undeniably a brave attempt to try something different.

Though The Living Daylights laid the groundwork for Timothy Dalton's tenure to be more serious and less-silly, the tonal leap is still a bit jarring, especially when you remember that the previous film still had Dalton riding a cello case to escape some assailants.

Comparatively, Licence to Kill is grounded - for the series' standards, anyway - and humourless, focusing on brutal death scenes, including that aforementioned implied rape, and cashing-in on the cocaine boom of the 1980s.

It might take you a little while to jive with the movie's mood, but once you acclimate to it, the film reveals itself to be one of the most interesting and downright entertaining Bond entries.