Live and Let Die

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Live and Let Die

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Live and Let Die

Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, David Hedison

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  read more... )Mr. Big, Kananga is coordinating a globally threatening scheme using tons of self-produced heroin. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind's plan, he meets Solitaire, the beautiful Tarot card reader whose magical gifts are crucial to the crime lord. Bond works his own magic on her, and embarks on a series of adventures, involving voodoo, hungry crocodiles and turbo-charged speedboats.

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  • stopitgoaway
    October 16, 2009
    stopitgoaway
    Bond goes blaxplotition. People who describe this movie as 'racist' are clearly deluded. Ok,the entire set of villains are black, but this in fact is a positive. In previous Bonds, there were few noticable black characters, and those that did appear were mainly stereotyped as sim...( read more)ple and superstitous.

    This time, although some of the minor baddies seem very blaxploitation, some of the most memorable villains were spawned here, including Yaphet Kotto's Dr Kanaga, steel clawed giant Tee Hee, and the mystical Baron Samedi. For the first time, black people are considered to be worthy of a serious feature in James Bond, as serious opponents.

    This is also the first Roger Moore film of the series, which makes it more watchable. The mood is lighter and there is a trace of comedy, which helps things immesurably since the wooden and colourless Sean Connery years, which although they set Bond on the way, were surpassed by Moore in the 70s and 80s. Moore gave the series a real flavour, and that begins here with some of the most memorable sequences of the whole Bond era.

    The plot may not be totally cohesive or even coherent, but some of the images and performances in this film will live in movie history, and rightly so.
  • SirPant
    September 23, 2009
    SirPant
    The Blaxploitation Bond, love it!
  • bradwest
    January 1, 2009
    bradwest
    Bond does blaxsploitation. Pretty enjoyable for Moore's first shot. Interesting to see the character carrying a .44 magnum in the end battle.
  • sononothing
    November 27, 2008
    sononothing
    Roger Moore takes over the role of James Bond in Live and Let Die, which has Bond spending most of his time in the Western Hemisphere as he investigates the connection between a Caribbean prime minister and an American drug lord.

    What's interesting about Live and Let Die is tha...( read more)t there are supernatural aspects in the film, mainly with red hot Jane Seymour's portrayal of the tarot card reading Solitaire. These aspects don't overpower the film that has really become a love it or leave it entry into the series, most of which comes from the public's obsession with Sean Connery as James Bond. Yaphet Kotto plays the lead baddie Kananga as almost a black Blofeld, cool instead of aristocratic.

    Live and Let Die is as fast paced as they get. You have to remember that Roger Moore's Bond and Connery's Bond are different, yet the same. It's still Bond. The only real problem with the film is how racist it can be perceived to be. Imagine that instead of SPECTRE you are saying that the entire black populations of Harlem and New Orleans are involved in an international drug conspiracy. Yeah, this was before the P.C. world we live in now. But overall Live and Let Die is a great action flick with Moore taking the role smoothly.
  • lewiskendell
    November 17, 2008
    lewiskendell
    Voodoo, heroin, airplane/car chases, racist southern police, snake attacks...this Bond film has it all. Well, the first ninety minutes is a Bond film, the rest is some weird, Dukes of Hazard/horror movie mixture. It's all thrown together in sort of a mishmash, and I never really ...( read more)knew what the movie was about, but that's what separates it from the better Bond films.

    Roger Moore does a good job as Bond, but he doesn't contrast well with all the "pimpmobiles" and jive talk of Harlem. The villain was decent, nothing special. Jane Seymour on the other hand is simply delicious as a Bond Girl. I wish we could have seen much more of her (literally).

    Overall, Live and Let Die is a memorable Bond film. Sadly, that's because of its American settings and disparate elements, not because of its quality.
  • eryri
    December 20, 2009
    eryri
    Roger Moore's debut as Bond is a corker with a fantastic boat chase.
  • Yelverton
    November 29, 2009
    Yelverton
    Good Bond film, but did that makeup fool anyone?
  • 21rclemente
    November 19, 2009
    21rclemente
    Roger Moore's best. The settings constantly change in bond flics but the use of the south and funeral cover-ups make this Bond intensely original... ps it ends by leaving you on a Connery-esque cliffhanger... which plays out favorably.
  • Rosepetal75
    November 8, 2009
    Rosepetal75
    British agent named James Bond (Roger Moore) follows Kananga back to San Monique to meet a beautiful virgin tarot expert named Solitaire (Jane Seymour) has the uncanny ability to see both future & remote events in the present.

    James meets the boatman Quarrel, Jr. takes him to ...( read more)Solitaire's home by using a stacked tarot deck of The Lovers cards. Bond tricks her for seduction is in her future & seduces her. Solitaire loses her ability to foretell the future when she loses her virginity to James Bond is forced into cooperating with James Bond to bring down Kananga when Soitaire's ability to read the tarot is gone.
  • minhvanl
    October 28, 2009
    minhvanl
    Excellent movie to watch.
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