Following the struggles and adventures of Bond, a young courageous and intelligent detective, who upon investigating in the murder of three of his friends, the thing that brings terrible for him, as he finds himself involved in the crime, so he does his best, in order to reveal the truth and catch the dangerous and cunning drug dealer.
Setting aside an allright speedboat spectacular over land and water, the film is both perfunctory and predictable -- leaving the mind free to wander into the question of its overall taste. Or lack of it.
I can see how many people can be entertained by this ludicrous film, but not because it's good. It features an outstanding performance from Moore and has an enjoyably bad Blaxploitation thing going on here, but not much else.
If you want to see an out of place Bond effort that would have been vastly improved with Shaft or Superfly in the lead role instead of 007, give this a view.
Live and Let Die has been especially well photographed and edited, and it makes clever and extensive use of its good title song, by Paul and Linda McCartney.
Total Film
October 23, 2012
Roger Moore's first 007 job is still top entertainment.
Guy Hamilton's direction lacks enthusiasm and pace, while even the art direction -- long the Bond films' real secret weapon -- seems to have fallen to a shrunken budget.
