8th film, first with Roger Moore. Begins with showing the death of 3 British agents in different locals in America and the West Indies, all three tracking the affair of Katanga, an island dictator. Title track and a much better title song, now with Beatle Paul McCartney doing the writing and singing. And then we are just introduced to this new Bond. Give Lazenby that, he got an introduction. First the silhouette, then the lighting of the cigarette and then full view at the beach. Here we are just shown Bond in bed with an Italian Spy. No build up, no suspense. But we got the Bond-watch with the magnetic field and rotor-blade. Then off to America. First New York where 007 instantly gets harassed by the local gangster Mr. Big who seems to own the whole of Harlem.
Off to the Caribbeans and I gotta admit, feels like a retake of Dr No. I like all the talk of voodoo and stuff, reminds me of Gabriel Knight. Turns out that it's really all about opium smuggling. Katanga, who's also Mr Big intends to flood the market with free heroin, destroy all competition and then have a monopoly to wring all the new drug addicts out of their money. I gotta say... not the most interesting threat against world order. We get a chase scene with boats in New Orleans and a bus driving scene in the Caribbean. Final fight ends with Katanga being forced feed a bullet for a shark gun that inflates him and then he explodes. 007 and the movies Bond girl travels by train which feels rather reminiscent of From Russia With Love and the fight against Tee-Hee, Katanga's second in command with the claw hand. You can clearly see that he hold the hand from the arm due to the whole arm being longer than the other arm and the weird angle where the real hand is.
Overall a good movie, maybe missing the high stakes of earlier films, but it feels rather more fast paced. Better than the last two at least.
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