After Goldfinger director G. Hamilton doesnt raise up to his own gold standard. Great stunts, good humor and beautiful ladies do not contribute to the story but rather make up for its shortcomings. And petty drug dealers seem to be out of Bonds league anyway.

Roger Moore's best Bond.

Dragged down by too much 70's flavor. . .

A great theme song is about all this film has going for it. Roger Moore totally missed the mark as Bond, playing him as an overly coifed smoothy. Totally unbelieveable as a man with a licence to kill. He delivered his rough justice and witty lines with as much character as a pizza delivery guy. And the southern Sherriff character belonged in a Burt Reynolds film not a Bond movie.

A pretty good Bond film, especially for Moore. We have one of the most stirring theme songs in the history of the franchise with Paul Mcartney's appropriately titled Live and Let Die, one of the more alluring leading ladies of the series in the beautiful form of the virginal Solitaire and one of the most interesting villains with the flamboyant and enigmatic voodoo shaman, Baron Samedi. This might have been Dalton's debut as Bond had it not been for the fact he believed he was too young at the time, and yet I actually don't think he would've worked as well as Moore in this particular movie. The general incongruity of the dapper English gent in America is just indescribably entertaining.

This is where the franchise really started to go to hell. Not only with Moore, who was a dreadful Bond, but with the relentless and utterly dehumanizing gadgetry and gimmickry. Utter crap.

My favorite Bond Film is 'Live and Let Die'. The film is, in a word, FUN! Mixed in with this film is the greatest boat chase scene ever filmed (with a world record speedboat jump to boot), reminiscent of the famous Bullitt chase scene with Steve McQueen. But the movie is significant in so many other ways. African Americans played so many vital roles throughout the entire movie. The theme song was recorded by Beatle great, Paul McCartney. And as important as it was Roger Moore's debut as 007, it was the legendary acting debut of Jane Seymour as the beautiful Solitaire. And as adventurous and thrilling as all Bond movies usually are, this movie was also touched with light-heartedness which makes it enduring to all Bond afficionados. A tour de force of all Bond movies, save 'Dr. No' and 'Goldfinger'.

Live And Let Die (released in 1973) is notable for several reasons. The first (and most obvious) is the debut of Roger Moore as 007. The second is the use of a large African-American cast. The third is the title song which is arguably one of the best of the series (and likely the most commercially successful). The interplay between Bond and his main rival Kanaga is a mix of the previous nemeses Dr. No and Goldfinger. Similar to the former in the beginning as one gets the feeling that Kanaga is merely lying in wait as Solitaire (his tarot card reader) predicts Bond's movements and motives, yet similar to the latter as the film progresses when Bond has more interaction with him (and of course Solitaire). The film replaces a more exotic physical setting with a more exotic cast of African-Americans; however, as the film was released in 1973, this can be forgiven as a product of the times. The chase scene is an extended boat/car (gotta regular Ben Hur out here) race in and around the Louisiana bayous which climaxes with the ill-placed (yet still somewhat funny) comic relief in the form of Sheriff Pepper, who shows up again in the subsequent Man With The Golden Gun (1974). (Note that Sheriff Pepper calls everyone boy in the original film, but this has been largely edited out for contemporary audiences due to political correctness I presume.) The bottom line is that Live And Let Die is an okay debut for Moore (though not really his fault); however, better installments were soon to come as Golden Gun is slightly better and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is much better.

In my opinion, Live and Let Die along with The Spy Who Loved Me were by far the best of the Roger Moore Bond films. A great story set in Harlem, New Orleans, the bayous of Louisiana, and the voodoo culture of Haiti. The only Bond film to have a large Black cast, it was a great film for Moore to be introduced as 007. A young Jane Seymour stars as one of the better looking (of so many) Bond girls. The theme song is also one of the top three in all Bond films.

Along with the Spy Who Loved Me, the best of the Moore Bond films. An entertaining movie.