Review of Live and Let Die (1973) by Lewis C — 17 Nov 2008

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 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.