After 3 secret agents have been killed Bond is ordered to travel to New York. On his way to meet Felix Leiter, his driver is killed by Whisper, but Bond survives by managing to dodge the oncoming traffic. He gets the license plate of the car, and Leiter tracks it to a neraby voodoo shop. Bond visits it, and whilst there sees the same car in the garage, and follows another car when he sees Kananga getting into to it. He follows the car in a taxi driven by one of Kananga's henchmen. He end up at one of the many 'Fillet of Soul' restaurants, where he has his first meeting with Mr.Big (Kananga), Tee Hee and more importantly the tarot reading 'Solitaire'. Mr.Big orders Bond to be killed, but Bond escapes with the help of a CIA agent.
Leiter
finds out that Kananga is heading to San Monique, so Bond gets the next available
flight. At the hotel, he finds that he has a 'wife' in supposed CIA agent
Rosie Carver. Whisper attempts to kill him by the use of a snake in the bathroom.
Bond, Rosie and Quarrel (a local fisherman working for the CIA) visit San
Monique the next day. Rosie is shot dead after she was threatening to confess
all to Bond, that she was working for Kananga. Bond returns to the island
that night, visiting Solitaire. The cards, slightly stacked in his favour,
suggest that they will be lovers, and by usual means of Bond, she loses the
power.
The
next day is by far the most eventful in the film, and what I would rate to
be one of the best days of action ever in a Bond film. It commences with Bond
and Solitaire trying to escape the island after he promises to protect her.
But, Bond is ordered to be killed by Kananga when he finds the large crop
of heroin on the island. He manages to evade the police in a bus, the top
of which disappears after meeting a low bridge. They get onto Quarrel's boat,
and escape.
However, Bond and Solitaire travel to New Orleans, and when leaving the airport find Kananga's taxi driver who takes them to a private airfield. Bond evades Kananga's men again, this time in a small plane. Without the captured Solitaire, he heads to Kananga's restaurant in New Orleans with Leiter. Bond is forced to meet with Mr.Big, who reveals himself to Bond to actually be Kananga, and how he plans to market the heroin. Bond is knocked out and taken to 'the farm' (where the heroin is shipped out). Kananga finds out about Solitaire's doings, and orders that she should be killed as part of the voodoo rituals of the island.
At
the farm, Tee Hee leaves Bond stranded on a small rocky island. Bond manages
to escape the crocodile surrounded island by jumping on the heads of the crocodiles,
and sets the main building of the farm alight. He steals one of the speedboats
and manages to escape the clutches of Tee Hee and the others in a high-speed
chase through Louisiana bayou country. He meets Leiter, who informs him that
Kananga, Baron Samedi and Solitaire have left for San Monique.
Just before the midnight and the ritual celebrations at San Monique begin, Leiter, Quarrel and Bond arrive there. Quarrel goes to shore as well as Bond. Quarrel sets off plastic explosives to destroy the heroin crops. Meanwhile, Bond sets off to spoil the party. Solitaire, ready to be sacrificed, is rescued and Bond kills Baron Samedi. Bond and Samedi manage to get access to the underground lair, where they meet Kananga and Whisper along with some other guards. Kananga concocts a slow moving mechanism dipping them into a small shark-filled moat. However, Bond escapes using his wristwatch with built-in saw to cut through the rope, which ties his arms. After a small scrap, he and Kananga fall into the moat, but using his high-pressure capsules, Bond manages to explode Kananga.
Finally, on the train back to England with Solitaire, Bond gets rid of the last of Kananga's henchman, Tee Hee, by pushing him through the train window.
Review
One of the more action packed films, but its quite simple plot lets it down.
8/10
Official
video blurb