The picture is carried along by a buffoonish flamboyance and by a benignity that must emanate from the director’s and the producers’ quizzical view of the original book, which was dyed-in-the-wool cliquish.

| Mar 4, 2024

…From the nudes-in-hell credits to the interrupted voodoo ritual of the climax, Live and Let Die attests to the influence of Fleming’s friend Dennis Wheatley…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2023

This gave the franchise a new life!

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 28, 2022

This introduces the worst -- I repeat, worst -- character to be found in any Bond movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2021

Will James Bond live on in the 1970s? Not much farther, if this episode is anything to go by.

| Dec 18, 2020

It is good, lively, mindless entertainment, slow to warm up but once embarked upon its improbable story quick to appreciate its own absurdity.

| Dec 18, 2020

Live and Let Die's flaws are apparent, but it's still a solid adventure, and Moore fits smoothly into the role of Bond. It's an enjoyable film, and that's really all you could ask for.

| Sep 23, 2020

Considering the blandness of this eighth theatrical chapter, it's miraculous that further adventures would make it to the big screen.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 30, 2020

If Live and Let Die was Moore's acid test, then he passed the test.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2020

While [Bond's] latest adventure looks as though his producers had trimmed a few million dollars off the budget, it is still fast, funny and frivolous enough to satisfy.

| Dec 31, 2019

Stands as proof to the maxim that James Bond and the 1970s simply didn't mix.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2019

Far from the worse offender in Roger Moore's outings as Bond. A boring boat chase and a slapstick final fate for our villain definitely takes it down a peg or two though...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 26, 2015

There are some splendid action sequences, notably a speedboat leap that set a new world record, as well as the usual array of hi-tech gadgetry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 23, 2015

As fastpaced and snappily entertaining a piece of claptrap as we have a right to expect.

| Oct 23, 2015

So-so '70s Bond entry has sex, drugs, action violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2014

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2012

Roger Moore's first 007 job is still top entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2012

In the longest tenure of any James Bond performer, Roger Moore would certainly have higher highs and lower lows. And while it strays from Bond formula in ways good and bad, it's a fine introduction to a 007 more prone to crack wise than crack heads.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 10, 2012

The first outright terrible Bond picture.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 22, 2012