This is the only "R"-rated James Bond movie, even though all of them have been full of sex and violence. Reason: they push things to extreme here. James Bond's CIA friend is maimed by a shark and left alive, his bride is raped and killed, and Bond's first response is to have a corrupt agent fed alive to sharks himself. And this is only the beginning.
The main villain is a drug lord, whom the British secret service says Bond shouldn't waste his time on, despite everything. The idea is that Bond is supposed to be intensely loyal to his country...but he abandons all that in his wildcat revenge against the drug lord. The villain, bad though he is, is not on a level with Goldfinger or other genuine world threats, and one would have expected Bond to deal with him on his own accord, when the right time came. But Bond doesn't act like Bond; he acts like Rambo. And in the end he winds up simply back in the British secret service as if nothing happened. That's a little too forgiving for any entity to deal with someone who breaks its core rules.
The main villain is a drug lord, whom the British secret service says Bond shouldn't waste his time on, despite everything. The idea is that Bond is supposed to be intensely loyal to his country...but he abandons all that in his wildcat revenge against the drug lord. The villain, bad though he is, is not on a level with Goldfinger or other genuine world threats, and one would have expected Bond to deal with him on his own accord, when the right time came. But Bond doesn't act like Bond; he acts like Rambo. And in the end he winds up simply back in the British secret service as if nothing happened. That's a little too forgiving for any entity to deal with someone who breaks its core rules.