Review of Live and Let Die (1973) by Amy W — 20 Feb 2009

007 Roger Moore investigates the disappearances of secret agents and gets mixed up with some voodoo witch doctors and a tarot card reader named "Solitaire". Bond goes to Harlem and then to New Orleans, where apparently, Bond is a "honkey".

At one point, Bond pulls a "pitfall" moment, and jogs across some alligators. A whole lot of nothing else happens and then there's a boat chase that might be the most boring boat chase ever committed to film.

But then there's the plot: Mr. Big (Kotto) has plans to flood the world's heroin market thereby driving the mafia out of business, at which point he shall rule the drug world. Ugh, then there's a shark tank, a magnetic watch, and by the time you realize Yaphet Kotto looks alot like Flip Wilson, he meets a ridiculous end.

Hey, at least the theme song (by Paul McCartney) is good! This is the weakest pre-80s Bond film I've seen so far.