Licence to Kill vs Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning has the higher audience score (7.3/10 against 6.4/10 for Licence to Kill). Licence to Kill is the shorter watch at 2h 13m compared with 2h 50m. Licence to Kill is the older of the two (1989 against 2025). Both are action, adventure, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Licence to Kill posterLicence to Kill1989 VS Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning posterMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning2025
Licence to KillMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 7.3/10
Year19892025
Length2h 13m2h 50m
GenresAction, Adventure, ThrillerAction, Adventure, Thriller
CountryMexico–
DirectorJohn GlenChristopher McQuarrie
Main castTimothy Dalton, Benicio del Toro, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Davi, Frank McRaeHolt McCallany, Shea Whigham, Hannah Waddingham, Hayley Atwell, Henry Czerny

Synopsis

Licence to Kill

After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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