This film is famous for a few reasons, but it's theme song being near the top. ![]() First snakes, then crocodiles, and sharks? I will say, I found it strange as to the drug lords obsession with using reptiles and amphibians to kill their enemies. I even found the smiling sidekick to be entertaining. Big was perhaps my favorite villain since Goldfinger, and most definitely the best overall film since then. Even though it's a much different story than the other films, Mr. For me, it was a good change of pace from the Blofeld movies. While the plot doesn't have a global scale like almost every other Bond film does, Yaphet Kotto gives us a menacing turn as a drug lord who's killing ways are different than anything we have seen before in a Bond film. But it also takes place on plenty of mysterious locations, very similar to Dr. It has the one villain focus, instead of the Spectre approach (which is good in its own right). ![]() In many ways I think this film harkens back to Dr. I never really bought into Lazenby as Bond in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', but it took a matter of minutes before I bought into Moore as 007. We had a new Bond in Roger Moore here, and a great one I may add. It took a while for the Bond films to get back into form, but Live and Let Die was a big leap forward toward the greatness that were the first 3 films. Still, the boat chase and crocodile hopping make for some killer action sequences. In this equation, espionage plus supernatural often equals some hokey suspense. Despite its charismatic lead and some winning villains, however, the voodoo of the plot amounts to some bad juju. Though this would cause the franchise to almost become a spoof unto itself later on its run, it allows the franchise to re-establish itself and live and let live as of this outing. So, rather than make him hip, they just make him cheekier with a devil-may-care attitude toward the changing mores. Like the tuxedo-wearing men's only clique known as the Rat Pack, Bond's custom suit-wearing, club-card carrying playboy had become uncool or even passé by this juncture. In this PG-rated spy adventure, 007 (Moore) gets sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate (Kotto) armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. Boasting far less macho swagger but far more comedic debonair, his Bond fits in perfectly with the authority-bucking times, even if much of the '70s-rooted goings-on now seems dated. The film still falls short of the center target but the new lead deftly fills some impossible shoes. ![]() Diamonds are Forever charted an overly campy course for the series, but Live and Let Die course corrects a bit, the humor and storytelling coming closer to a bullseye. Powered by the best of James Bond theme songs, Roger Moore makes an impressive and entertaining debut in this, a decently paced but often kooky and dated adaptation of Ian Fleming's second novel.
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