8 Most Underrated James Bond Films

Live and Let Die is a good Bond movie. Roger Moore, even though he was already too old to play Bond, makes a good start, the various supporting villains are memorable, the pacing is good, the locations are gorgeous, the action sequences rock and the movie also, compared to other instalments, has quite a unique and interesting otherworldly vibe to it.

Also, "He always did have an inflated opinion of himself" is one of the funniest Bond scenes ever and it has one of the best Bond themes of them all, courtesy of Paul McCartney.

Therefore, it doesn't feel fair that this is such a divisive entry since it does get a lot right and it's certainly better than many of the other films from the wildly inconsistent Roger Moore era. Sure, the main villain (Yaphet Kotto) is a bit dull and the Bond Girls suck, but those issues are more than compensated for.

Many will correctly say that this film has aged badly and that's definitely true, but that doesn't make a bad film at all and let's face it: most of the early James Bond films have aged badly in one way or another (mainly due to their treatment of their female characters), so it's not as if Live and Let Die is unique in this regard.