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The Man with the Golden Gun

United Artists | Release Date: December 20, 1974

6.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 65 Ratings

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gracjanskiSep 17, 2021

Surely one of the worst parts of the franchise: The first part is a bit boring, because you know many of the scenes already. Roger moore doesnt have the same charisma as Sean Connery. Some of the action scenes are bad, especially the handSurely one of the worst parts of the franchise: The first part is a bit boring, because you know many of the scenes already. Roger moore doesnt have the same charisma as Sean Connery. Some of the action scenes are bad, especially the hand fightings. The oneliners and the humours scenes are also bad.
What was good? Christopher Lee the villain was interesting. The asian setting was also nice.… Expand

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VidyaBumOct 22, 2021

Having watched 25 Bonds from Dr.No to Skyfall, I place this one at 13/25.

The Man With the Golden Gun is fascinating to cricitise because there is so much to say. Right from his start with Live and Let Die, Moore entered like a dog in aHaving watched 25 Bonds from Dr.No to Skyfall, I place this one at 13/25.

The Man With the Golden Gun is fascinating to cricitise because there is so much to say.

Right from his start with Live and Let Die, Moore entered like a dog in a bowling game. His first movie was terrible and it was in great part due to him playing his old role and being a pompous prancing bourgeois.

For Golden Gun, they decided to force him to be serious, to be hard. And boy, did he catch that boat and ride it. We get to see Roger Moore threaten people with castration by rifle, we get to see him slap a woman in the face HARD, he threatens, he beats, he throws, it's a movie that aims to correct the excesses of the last one by whole new excesses in the other direction.

And Moore delivered. He really did a great job on a movie that was decidedly against his style.

However, Golden Gun had other problems. I often complain about the villains falling flat, well not here: Christopher Lee not only makes a good villain, but most importantly, we're rid of the old daring 00 agent VS Evil CEO/Scientist/madman. Scaramanga is a brilliant mirror to James Bond, a killer to a killer, a woman user to a womanizer, a man famous for his skills to one equally famous. The famous "we're not so different, you and I" speech comes from this movie, and by God, they really did it justice. Or they would have.

I also liked the character of Nick Nack and the setting in Hong Kong was simply wonderful.

With a great villain, a strong Moore, good theming and style, this would be a wonderful Bond. And then there's the 3 big problems.

1: The Cop Character. Now you can like him or hate him, I hate him with a passion, but I suspect someone at EON who wrote plots was humiliated by the american police at some point, because there is the humiliation of the police in Diamonds, then the horribly stupid, ugly, redneck cop character in Live and Let Die, and now that same character, is somehow in Thailand and this time, doesn't just provide bad comic relief, he gets on Bond's car, and latches on to the movie for 15 whole minutes, killing everything.

2: The comic relief. This is where the movie gets a bit schizophrenic. Golden Gun is a decidedly very dark Bond in several ways. But they tried to balance it out with the aforementioned cop, with the extremely stupid "noob agent" bond girl they shoehorned in, with lots of just disruptive scenes and moments that kill the mood.

3: The kung-fu, and if I mentioned schizophrenia with the comic relief, it's nothing compared to this. After some 25% of the movie being a very dark and interesting Bond take, we have a (very stupid) scene where instead of finishing off Bond when he's down, someone orders that he gets "taken to school". The "school" is a martial arts school, where Bond wakes up surrounded by three women cleaning his nails and body(???), he then sees two students fight and murder one another(?????) and then is invited to fight, after which, realising he can't win, he jumps out a barbed window, not having any idea if he's on the 1st or 6th floor(??????), where a fellow agent just instantly finds him, picks him up, while his two 15 year old nieces destroy the entire 40-ish student body with their kung-fu(????????????). After that, the agent drives away, leaving Bond behind in some of the dumbest comedy I've ever seen, and the viewer is served with a long chase sequence. It's a massive WTF moment, perhaps one of the biggest in the series. This entire part lasts about 20 minutes, and considering the movie came out in 1975, this is one of the worst cases of cramming something popular to latch on to a fad.

There are other issues like the very strange directing for the last part of the movie where it feels like Moore and Lee are having a casual friends talk while Lee exposes his Evil Plan, and it's a bummer that they just sort of drop the very interesting "we're not so different, you and I" conversation, that was clearly not going Bond's way.

But really, the 20 minutes of terrible kung-fu, the 15 minutes of redneck cop, and the generally bad comic relief, all killed the vibe of a movie that could have stood as one of the greatest Bonds. The end result is a fascinating, but ultimately failed Bond movie.… Expand

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FilipeNetoFeb 17, 2018

Directed by Guy Hamilton and with a script by Tom Mankiewicz and Richard Maibaum, this is the ninth film in the 007 franchise and keeps Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli as co-producers for the last time. In this film, the second where RogerDirected by Guy Hamilton and with a script by Tom Mankiewicz and Richard Maibaum, this is the ninth film in the 007 franchise and keeps Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli as co-producers for the last time. In this film, the second where Roger Moore embodies 007, the main subject will be the energy crisis and the advent of so- called green energies, issues that were very present at that time, due to the oil crisis and the beginning of ecological concerns in society.

In this film, the British agent is threatened by an assassin called Scaramanga, famous for using a pistol and bullets made in gold. Discretely, Bond decides to set off in pursuit of his new enemy, with the permission of M. The clues lead him to Beirut, to the Portuguese colony of Macau and finally to Hong Kong, where Scaramanga kills Gibson under Bond's nose. Gibson was a scientist who invented a way to harness solar energy and alleviate the world's dependency on oil. Bond must now recover the stolen technology and goes to Thailand where, after many adventures, will join forces with his colleague Mary Goodnight, an English spy who is both beautiful as stupid. Finally he meets Scaramanga. The chase takes Bond to the island's villain, which takes the final confrontation, full of surprises.

In this film, Roger Moore will continues the formula started in "Live and Let Die": sarcastic and calm in any situation, his Bond is also a natural seducer, kind and gentle, contrasting to the rudest posture of Sean Connery, while not giving any value to women who seduces and which quickly drops when it suits his mission. A curious note: the mechanism created by Scaramanga in his island for the use of solar energy, despite the science fiction touch, is very similar to solar panels we have today but I don't know if this was a "jules- vernian" stylish prediction or if, even then, we could logically predict the course of technology in this field. One of the most famous scenes of this film is the gold-covered woman, in a probable homage to "Goldfinger", an earlier franchise film where this scene first emerged. Another memorable scene is the car chase where Bond, to cross a water channel, makes a dangerous 360° rotation with the car, similar to Evel Knievel shows, a popular icon from these time.

In addition to James Bond and Mary Goodnight (Bond-girl played by the Swedish Britt Ekland), the film brings again J. W. Pepper, which was a big hit in the previous film and works here just as comic element. The villain, Scaramanga, was played by the immortal Christopher Lee, whom the seventies ran particularly well thanks to vampire movies. His helper, the francophone dwarf Nick-Nack, was taken by the talented and funny Hervé Villechaize. The also Swedish Maud Adams embodied Andrea the second bond-girl of this movie, the only 007 movie (I think) with two bond-girls interpreted by actresses from the same country.… Expand

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Onlyclassicvg1Aug 10, 2022

ummary: James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

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511andahalfFeb 5, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Absolutely terrible Bond movie, easily one of the worst Bond movies ever. The movie just loses itself and goes all over the place. Seriously, Bond doing karate, that car flip with the whistle, and Bond sucking the bullet out of that woman's belly button is just ridiculous. The Bond girl, Goodnight, is also very ditzy and clumsy, very annoying to watch. This is the only Moore film where I didn't really like his character all that much, I wouldn't expect Moore's version of Bond to slap women, suck bullets, and push a kid into a river. The film is partially saved by Christopher Lee giving a good performance as Scaramanga, but it's enough to save this disaster of a Bond film. Overall, it hardly feels like an actual spy film since you don't feel the stakes, let alone a James Bond film.… Expand

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HeroicAge616Oct 26, 2021

Thanks to Christopher Lee's fantastic villain, The Man with the Golden Gun is memorable, if not perfect.

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