🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸’s review published on Letterboxd:
About halfway through Live And Let Die, after Jane Seymour invites him back to bed for seconds (the lucky, lucky swine), Roger Moore gives us the one-liner, "There's no sense going out half-cocked."
Under normal circumstances, it might just look like the archetypal Roger Moore era Bond one-liner, but actually it sums up this film pretty well. It was never going to be a smooth transition between Sean Connery and Moore, such very different choices for 007 that they were, and as such Live And Let Die is allowed to be a very different Bond film indeed. There are no half measures here at all, and it's completely the right choice.
So we get a blaxploitation, voodoo and horror filled Bond instead, and it's a thoroughly thrilling ride. Of course, the nature of the beast is that it looks very dated in places now but it's still an absolutely rollicking ride right the way through, from an excellent three-pronged pre-credits sequence through one of the very best boat chases ever filmed and the now iconic escape via the backs of some conveniently lined up crocodiles. Oh, and that bus ride!
Yaphet Kotto might not, in terms of the scope of his character's villainy, be the most memorable Bond baddie but he certainly puts in one of the very best performances as such in the series. Seymour is a very different Bond girl but an excellent and thoroughly beautiful one, while Clifton James as Sheriff JW Pepper provides over-the-top but enjoyable comic relief.
It's never ever dull and is packed with twists and surprises and is, for me, one of the very best in the whole series.