However, time has been incredibly kind to the film. In the decades that followed, as Daniel Craig took over the role in 2006 with Casino Royale , audiences and critics finally caught up to what Dalton was trying to do. Craig's critically acclaimed, gritty, realistic portrayal of Bond owes an massive, undeniable debt to Dalton's groundwork.
The story was deeply personal. Drug kingpin Franz Sanchez, played with a terrifying, charismatic sociopathy by a young Robert Davi, brutally attacks Bond’s CIA brother-in-arms, Felix Leiter, and murders Leiter's bride on their wedding day. When MI6 orders Bond to drop the matter and proceed to his next assignment, Bond does the unthinkable: he resigns. Revoked of his license to kill, he becomes a rogue agent operating on pure, unadulterated vengeance. Licence to Kill
With Licence to Kill , director John Glen and longtime producer Albert R. Broccoli decided to take the ultimate gamble. They would take James Bond out of the British Secret Service. However, time has been incredibly kind to the film