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When James Bond (Agent 007) investigates the murders of three fellow agents, he soon finds himself a target, evading vicious assassins as he closes in on the powerful Kananga. Known on the streets as ...( read more 
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MCT:October 5, 2008I really didn't care much for this film entry into the Bond series. I wasn't crazy about Roger Moore as Bond, although there were a couple of Roger Moore Bond movies that at least appealed to me ('The Spy Who Love Me' and Moonraker'). The boat chase was rather unusual and very funny (more along the the lines of the Keystone Cops), but the overall story sucked.
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MCT:September 29, 2008Of all the Bonds that have been made, this one is probably the darkest.
One of the things that I am missing is the humor. It misses the typical Roger Moore James Bond humor with as a result that the movie becomes a bit too serious. Sure it has some funny moment but it just misses the Roger Moore touch he added to the later Bond movies. But that's no wonder since this was Moore's first Bond, it looks like both actor and crew were still searching for the right character for Moore's Bond.
Another minor problem is the story. There happens too much in a too short amount of time. They could have resolved this by making the movie just 10 minutes longer.
But still it is a very solid Bond movie. It has some amazing character such as Baron Samedi and the legendary Sheriff J.W. Pepper that later returned in "The Man with the Golden Gun". The villains are one of the very best from the Bond series even though Kananga is a bit underused. Jane Seymour plays a great and beautiful Bond girl but again also she is a bit underused.
The atmosphere is pretty dark, mainly of course the scene's in Harlem. It's interesting but I still prefer the lighter Bond.
The movie is full with famous Bond scene's with the speed boat chase as one of the best. It's funny, spectacular and tense in other words: Typical Bond. I also always enjoy the scene's between Bond and M and this movie is no exception. Their relationship and the certain tension towards each other is priceless and always good for some hard laughs. It's pure comedy that not all people will understand.
The music by George Martin is different but it suits the movie and it's atmosphere really well! The main title song by Paul and Linda McCartney is also very good and one of the very best Bond theme songs.
Solid Bond that could have been excellent. -
MCT:September 17, 2008
Roger Moore steps in as Bond and instead of battling Russians he battles Black people. A lot of the voodoo stuff is quite silly, as is Sheriff J Dubya Pepper, but its still a fun movie. Especially when Bond is battling crocodiles.
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MCT:September 5, 2008(No. 8)
After a decade of civil rights clashes, white America settles into a new status quo - 'blaxploitation', with Bond jumping on the bandwagon. With much of African culture being feared and misunderstood, this next Bond installment is laden with voodoo and other supernatural elements. It's therefore ironic that Mr. Big, who believes so strongly in the occult, has the most down to earth objective of any other Bond baddy so far; rather than wanting to rule the world, he simply wants to rule the drug world. Roger Moore is introduced for the first time and he delivers a softer, more charming title character (though still a cad). Visually, this is definitely the freakiest Bond we've seen so far, especially with the voodoo ritual sequences, while Paul McCartney's title song sets the mood with a rocking audio experience. The '60s are over and Bond is dead. Long live Bond. -
MCT:September 5, 2008
Roger Moore's first outing as Bond is a half-decent attempt at making things even more exotic than usual. As well as being fairly dark and spooky. Killer McCartney song to boot! The filmmakers also jump on the bandwagon as far as blaxploitation films are concerned, after all, this was the 70s. They take the voodoo aspect slightly too far, but the ridiculously over-the-top boat chase is worth the price of admission alone. Let alone the alligators! Then, of course, there's also that crazy sheriff...
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MCT:August 17, 2008Tee-Hee: There are two ways to disable an croc, you know.
James Bond: I don't suppose you'd care to tell me what they are.
Tee-Hee: One way is to take a pencil and stick it in the pressure area above its eye.
James Bond: And the other way?
Tee-Hee: Oh, the other way is twice as simple. You just stick your hand in its mouth and pull its teeth out.
Roger Moore steps in for the first time as Bond, replacing Connery and trying to find his own footing. He eases in well enough, with various changes to the character, but nothing too drastic. The movie itself is a Bond plot, with some worked in aspects to it making it a good enough Bond flick with a new Bond.
[as Bond unzips Miss Caruso's dress with the magnet in his watch]
Miss Caruso: Such a delicate touch.
James Bond: Sheer magnetism, darling.
The story involves Bond's investigation into a murder case involving the death of three English agents. These murders were at the hands of a drug kingpin known as Mr. Big, played by Yaphet Kotto, and leads Bond to different parts of the US and Caribbean, including Harlem and New Orleans. Along the way he of course meets a few women including Jayne "Dr. Quinn" Seymour, because there is always time.
Cab driver: You know where you're going?
James Bond: Uptown, I believe?
Cab driver: Uptown? You headed into Harlem, man!
James Bond: Well you just stay on the tail of that jukebox and there's an extra twenty in it for you.
Cab driver: Hey man, for twenty bucks I'd take you to a Ku Klux Klan cookout!
Part of the theme of this movie revolves around Blaxsploitation movies. This installment tries to incorporate those elements, which is off putting, but fitting with the time, much like Moonraker during the Star Wars craze.
Getting back to Moore as Bond, he plays him sort of like the Dean Martin version, very self aware of his character, very smooth and sure of himself. He is of course no Connery, but Moore's own style, which will be later improved upon in his third play at Bond in "Spy Who Loved Me," is a good approach as well.
Overall, this is a fun film, with a bit of an acceptance of a new Bond needed to enjoy it more. And it has one of my favorite Bond songs from Paul McCartney.
[Bond refuses to answer Mr. Big's question about Solitaire]
James Bond: I'm not in the habit of giving answers to... lackeys.
Mr. Big: You damn *lucky* you got an ear left to hear the question with! Which is, did you mess with that?
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MCT:August 6, 2008
As much as I like Roger Moore as James Bond, the story is so blaxploitation that I have a hard time liking it. It's just weird at times. Moore: good; Story: not so much. Paul McCartney's theme is very memorable, though.
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MCT:July 30, 2008
Certainly much better than Diamonds are Forever, but still had a good amount of Cheese. Roger Moore does a fine job at being James Bond but the script and the the story are what kill this movie. I'm not sure what made them decide to make a James Bond film into a Blackspoitation movie but I guess that's the 70s for you. The soundtrack however was probably one of the best of the series.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
Very good first outing for Roger Moore. Crocodile sequence is classic. Really good stuff in this one.
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MCT:June 20, 2008
bond goes blaxploitation! too cheesy and racist and yet i liked it. and it has the best bond theme ever!
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MCT:June 7, 2008
C'est extraordinaire de voir à quel point est-ce que, cette fois-ci, la transition s'est bien produite. Serait-ce à cause de l'instabilité du rôle, qui jusque alors vacillait entre Connery, Lazenby et même Billington? N'en demeure pas moins que Roger Moore est absolument brillant dans son interprétation de l'agent secret brittanique, quoique absolument très différente de Connery, et que sa présence ne m'a pas pour le moins irritée de tout le film.
James Bond s'aventure alors dans les confins d'un Harlem new-yorkais pour éventuellement se diriger vers une île des Caraïbes là où se trame un scénario classique de dopage. Là où l'originalité intervient, c'est que le scénario se mélange à la malédiction vaudou et à l'intervention de l'énigmatique Baron Samedi. Certains éléments du scénario, notamment le rôle qu'occupe le tarot dans l'histoire, sont dignes de faire naître sur les lèvres du téléspectateur maints sourires fuyants. -
MCT:May 31, 2008
#9 -- Campy and outrageous, Live And Let Die ranks as Moore's second best entry in the franchise. Much better than Diamonds Are Forever due to its interesting villains and exciting action sequences, Moore set the tone for some of the later films to come, eventually launching the franchise back into stardom.
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MCT:May 26, 2008
Probably my favourite Roger Moore Bond. Just because it's so different to any other film - the onyl downside being it's kind of dated because it's so racist. But Roger Moore is at his best and it's great.
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MCT:May 2, 2008
In 1973 Roger Moore made a smooth transition from his most famous role - that of Simon Templar - to yet another literary character who had been made famous by another actor. Whereas the Saint had been immortalized by George Sanders in a series of movies much earlier (allowing Moore to make it his own in the highly successful television series), the memory of Sean Connery as James Bond was much more recent in the publics mind so Moore had his work cut out for him.
It is hardly surprising then that "Live and Let Die" plays it relatively safe. Moore went on record as saying that he read one line detailing how Bond had to kill once, but didn't very much like it (from the novel "Goldfinger"), and took his portrayal from that. In fact in his first couple of movies Moore plays the character much closer to his television Simon Templar persona than later in the series (the producers subsequently felt it was too close to Connery's interpretation of the role). This is a sad development as Moore never really had the chance to show he could play both charming and ruthless as he had plenty of chances to portray on The Saint.
Taking one of Fleming's most controversial novels (the villains are all black) the producers were faced with a vexing problem. They overcame this by not only giving Bond a black ally, but also allowing the villains to get the better of 007 on several occasions. They also threw in a redneck sheriff as comic relief for good measure.
The movie is essentially one long chase and in a definite break with tradition we are offered up a pretitles sequence in which James Bond does not appear. In the opening we see two British agents killed by ingenious means - first a man is killed at the United Nations through use of what can only be assumed a sound weapon and a second by snakebite on the Caribbean island of San Monique. James Bond (in only the second and last time we see a glimpse of his London apartment) is assigned by M to investigate.
What follows is a chase as Bond pursues the Prime Minister of San Monique Dr. Kananga and an underworld gang leader named Mr. Big across the United States to a fiery, explosive (literally) climax in the Caribbean. On the way our interepid hero must escape from all manner of tricky situations, such as being stranded on a tiny island surrounded by crocodiles. The action highlight is most probably a boat chase half way through the movie that has probably only been bested by an even better boat chase sequence in "Puppet on a Chain."
This movie does seem to have trouble deciding if it wants to be humorous or serious and I liked the introduction of the voodoo element that makes this a very unique 007 picture.
Truth be told, the initial Bond movie by Roger Moore is a mixed bag in my book. Whereas the supporting villains are excellent, the main villain is underwhelming and his plot (flooding the US with drugs) is rather ho-hum compared to bigger plots like destruction of the world (Moonraker) or the nuclear attack of British cities (For Your Eyes Only).
Roger Moore is also still finding his way in the part and apart from a few glimmers of what he would eventually deliver, the movie and his performance seems to be on remote control. -
MCT:April 23, 2008
Roger Moore steps into the role he was born to play. This time Bond is up against the entire black population of North America.
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MCT:April 20, 2008Moore's first outing as 007 and my personal favorite of all 21 films. A well-paced and interesting ride from New York City to Louisiana to a Haiti-like island run by the drug-smuggling Lt. Al Giardello - oops, I mean Kananga/Mr Big. Add a very hot Jane Seymour into the mix and this was a hell of a way to open up the best run of Bond movies in the bunch.
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MCT:April 12, 2008
a strange but good james bond film with roger moore in his very first 007 role. the bond women include jane seymour and gloria hendry... and although the soundtrack is by paul mccartney (the musician i can't stand) i have to say it is one of his good songs. plenty of action... loads of the stuff which keeps you entertained throughout and enough sinister voodoo practice to shake a pin-doll at
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MCT:March 23, 2008I am a fan of James Bond and this
is a good film. The theme is amazing by SIR Paul McCartney and the Wings -
MCT:March 1, 2008
My personal favorite Bond for no real reason except for the fact that Roger Moore is hookin' up with all colors on the electromagnetic spectrum.
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MCT:February 24, 2008
It's not a bad Bond film. Not at all. Maybe it's because I wanna see Connery instead of More that I don't get completely happy. Connery always was the best and no one can change that.
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MCT:February 15, 2008
It's James Bond vs. Black people! Every black person in Louisiana apparently is evil, but they wear great 70's pimp attire. Bond also goes to a Island of VooDoo to fight a guy who can't die, and takes the virginity of a prophetess. Alllllright.
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