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User Reviews for: Live and Let Die

drystyx
/10  2 years ago
This 007 film aged very well.
007 follows in the footsteps of three prior agents who were assassinated.
There's a lot of "jive" in this one, since this is the one where the villain is black, and he uses mostly black helpers, so the white James Bond really sticks out.
And thus we get a lot more comedy here.
There's a bit of a condescending attitude towards Harlem here, and too much respect for the few who are the criminals of Harlem, but this is a "comedy" 007 adventure.
The beautiful Solitaire is the love interest, and there's a lot of belief in the supernatural here. That's part of the "condescending" part.
This movie was very bad in 1973, but it aged well, because in 1973 the "red neck sheriff" was such a trite cliche that one had to groan in 1973.
But today, after all the movies that have tamed down the image of the red neck lawman, it's a fresh bit of comedy, and that's why this movie has aged well. It comes close to breaking into the top ten 007 films of all time due to its lack of negativity that has been the Hollywood formula since about 1965.
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