12 Things You Learn Rewatching Licence To Kill

10. The Plot's Refreshingly Simple

As enjoyable as The Living Daylights was, it did suffer somewhat from being a little too contrived for its own good, and so in addition to its harsher tone, Licence to Kill also benefits from a simpler and more streamlined narrative.

It's a plot that's extremely easy to summarise: an evil drug lord gets caught, he escapes, and Bond sets off to capture or kill him and disrupt his drug smuggling operation.

Sure, there's a little more to it than that - there's a subplot involving Sanchez acquiring a set of stinger missiles - but generally the film doesn't make the classic Bond movie gaffe of mistaking convolution for complexity.

It's a delicate balance, to keep the plot simple but not overly so, but the film pulls it off surprisingly well. Above all else, it's a perfect reminder that less can often be more.