The Single Biggest Mistake Every James Bond Film Has Made

License to Kill is an underrated Bond film, especially since people criticise it for the wrong reasons.

It is unusually dark for the franchise but this is mostly in a good way, since it does have some genuine emotional power and feels unique enough to stand out among the James Bond films. The thing which prevents it from being one of the franchises best is the iffy pacing.

License to Kill is often too slow for its own good, especially in the middle sections, and there's too much space between the action sequences. The dark tone is absolutely fine, but as this is a James Bond movie, it needed a bit more excitement (it does have a strong finale though).

As such, it's not one of the higher-tier Bond films, although certainly not one of the worst either.