Licence to Kill is a 1989 spy film. It is the 16th installment in the James Bond series, and the last to star Timothy Dalton as MI6 agent James Bond. Licence to Kill was the first official James Bond film to use a title not derived from either an Ian Fleming novel or a short story. However, it does contain characters and elements from Fleming's novel Live and Let Die and the short story The Hildebrand Rarity, as well as plot similarities to Fleming's novel The Man with the Golden Gun. The film revolves around Bond's dismissal from MI6 and his vendetta against a South American drug baron. The title refers to Bond's discretionary licence to kill which allows him to kill without prior approval to complete his mission. The film was originally due to be called Licence Revoked.

Due largely to a poor showing in the United States, Licence to Kill was one of the least commercially successful Bond films, fetching only $256,701,197 (inflation adjusted) worldwide. Due to the death of screenwriter Richard Maibaum and subsequent legal battles over the ownership of the James Bond series, Licence to Kill was the last Bond film for over six years, the longest interval in the history of the series. It was also the final film to be produced by Albert R. Broccoli, whose declining health led to a diminished role in bringing 1995's GoldenEye to the screen.