Review of Live and Let Die

Live And Let Die has always been my favourite Bond, perhaps because it was the first one I ever saw. having just watched it again on DVD after a gap of quite a few years, 'm still hugely impressed with what is one of the strangest and most inventive of Bond movies. It's a curiously unglamorous affair, with Bond a million miles away from casinos and Tiffany Cases. Yaphey Kotto's brilliant villain is half the time a Harlem gangster, and half a vicious politician exploiting local superstition to support his heroin smuggling. but Live And Let Die takes prosaic crime plots and pours a dose of strange brew over them, with creepy supernatural overtones and perhaps the scariest, most thuggish and least gentlemanly Bond villians of all. The soundtrack is gorgeous, and just watch that magical scene between Bond and Solitare when he tricks her with the tarot cards. Jane Seymour's expression as she turns to look at Moore is marvellous, and the love theme is magnificent, if all too brief. That scene alone is worth the price of admission.