Ranking Every James Bond Film - From Worst To Best

14. Live And Let Die

Boasting the best Bond theme song (Paul McCartney and Wings' titular pop tune), Live and Let Die starts promisingly, is plentiful in great moments, and contains Roger Moore's second-best outing as Bond (in his first feature as the iconic agent). Trying to jump on the Blaxploitation wave, Live and Let Die sees Moore investigate the murder of three Mi6 agents, which in turn leads him to Dr. Kananga, a.k.a. Mr. Big, a gangster exploiting the locals' fear of the voodoo occult in order to protect his heroin-producing poppy fields. Straight away, that premise, though a little bizarre, sets Live and Let Die apart from previous Bond entries, setting 007 not against a world-conquering megalomaniac, but instead a legitimate criminal involved in the drug trade. From there, there's Bond's great escape from an alligator farm; a great henchman in Tee-Hee; a gorgeous, effective Bond Girl in Jane Seymour; and the last shot of Baron Samedi on the front of the train, surely the most ambiguous moment in all of Bond. Live and Let Die loses points for the final half hour, which descends into farce and sees Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto) literally inflated and blown up above a shark tank.