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Summary: not defective!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: THIS FILM ON DVD IS NOT DEFECTIVE. I BOUGHT MY COPY LAST YEAR AND IT WORKS FINE.IT IS A VERY GOOD BOND FILM, IT MAKES MY TOP THREE. IT HAS MY FAVORITE BOND, ROGER MOORE. THE DVD HAS ALOT OF COOL FEATURES.TRAILORS, TWO DOCUMENTORIES, TV SPOTS, RADIO SPOTS.IF YOU LOVE JAMES BOND YOU WOULD LOVE THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: PHUYUCK! Bond Meets His Match!
Review: Roger Moore's second outing as the suave James Bond 007, The Man With The Golden Gun was supposed to be what Sean Connery's second outing, From Russia With Love was, a runaway sleeper classic. The premise of both plotlines are strikingly similar. Basically, Bond is out to risk his own life for love of country and retrieve a pivotal gadget, with someone out there to eliminate Bond, utilizing that particular gadget as bait to lure our hero. However, The Man With The Golden Gun lacked a sense of urgency and instead, obtained an annoying, incompetent leading Bond lady in Mary Goodnight, played by Britt Ekland. In this 9th edition of Bond, a million-dollar-a-shot trick shot artist assassin by the name of Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee of Lord of the Rings fame) engages in a game of cat-and-mouse, when he sends MI6 a golden bullet with "007" etched into it. M orders Bond to be inactive on the next mission, but being the daring, confident agent that he is, Bond insists to undertake the mission. In this outing, Bond is sent off to the Far East in pursuit of a Solex Agitator, a device which draws solar energy, produced to solve the world's energy crisis, all the while, keeping an eye out for Scaramanga. Assigned to help Bond out is the lovely, but not so bright Mary Goodnight, of whom makes Bond's task that much harder. Meanwhile, Scaramanga is employed by a wealthy Asian industrialist, Hai Fat, to retrieve the Solex from its possessor. Scaramanga eventually takes the Solex for his own purposes, to make a good chunk of change off of the device and most importantly, to lure Bond and eventually kill his arch-rival, of whom he holds the highest reverence of, as well as obsession. Serving as the eccentric Scaramanga's little sidekick, literally, is Nick Nack, played by that famous midget from 70's sitcom Fantasy Island, Herve Villechaize. The mischievous Nick Nack wants Scaramanga terminated so that he could inherit Scaramanga's Chinese island property. To make good on this aim, Nick Nack hires a hitman to Scaramanga's hideaway and take out Scaramanga, but as easy as it sounds, Nick Nack tests the hitman and Scaramanga in a duel, in a funky funhouse, meant to confuse and torture the duelists. In fact, somewhere in that maze is a wax figure of Bond, as shown in the pre-title sequence. If you remember right, you would know how pivotal that particular tidbit becomes later on. And of course, there's Scaramanga's beautiful mistress, the tragic Andrea Anders, played with flying colors by Maud Adams of later Octopussy fame, who has sex with Scaramanga before he is off for the kill. The Man With The Golden Gun has a Live and Let Die-style pace in that it is chocked full of non-stop action, only a notch slower and with a Bruce Lee feel (remember Bruce Lee's classic Enter the Dragon came out the previous year and therefore Moore points out a "Bruce Lee Land" innuendo in the scene he gets "whacked" or "nick nacked"). Much like Moore's debut, there's over-the-top but cartoonish humor and more of it and the film lacks the energy and suspense (save for the climax) because of it. Another leftover from Live and Let Die is everyone's favorite southern sheriff, J.W. Pepper (Clifton James), who adds a brash comical touch to the film, as Bond's impromptu sidekick in the Thai car chase scene. Like all Bond films, the action sequences satisfy, despite the quirky points of the movie, even though this flick becomes very much dependent on these scenes, to the extent, the storyline becomes downplayed. The kung fu school fighting segment, where Bond is forced to fight against the dojo's best hand-to-hand kung fu fighters, rides on the momentum carried about by Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon and is a highlight of the movie. The huge car chase scene is solid, but rather mundane at times, save for Bond's daredevil stunt. However, Scaramanga and Bond's climactic duel takes the cake as the epitomy of the film and it is at this only juncture where suspense comes to play. As expected of a duel, it is not dependent on action but on the psychological game between Bond, armed with his signature Walther PPK and Scaramanga, with his patented golden gun and the ending is so memorable, that in my opinion, this faceoff is the best climax in the entire Bond series. Despite Britt Ekland and the overutilization of humor, The Man with the Golden Gun is a worthy addition to the Bond series.
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Summary: My Favorite
Review: Hard to believe but it is. I like the villians and some of the lines were just fun to repeat. The movie is about a missing solex agitator that can end the energy crisis. A million dollar assassin named Scaramanga and his midget servant Nick Nack have it. Bond must team up with Lt. Hip and the utterly stupid Mary Goodnight, oh yeah and the racist Sherif J. W. Pepper. Pros-Scaramanga, Nick Nack, the golden gun, the lame flying car, little kid selling elephant and that cool 360 Jump. Cons-Goodnight, The theme song
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Summary: GREAT
Review: GREAT classic bond movie one of Moore's better bond movies this is a must in any bond fan's collection
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Summary: Impossible Not To Own
Review: From kung fu fights, to upside down cars, to the infamous third nipple scene- 'Golden Gun' is Moore's best, and one of the best Bonds ever!
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Summary: Moore please
Review: This James Bond movie can be listed up near the top of any Bond movie there is. I have heard complaints about too little action in a 2:04 movie, but take the good with the bad, and, unless you are a hormonal 14 year old, then action isn't the only thing that is required in a great Bond movie. This movie is pretty much a "Duel between titans" if I could quote Scaramanga himself, with (surprise, surprise), a plot thrown in. Action is not great, but the plot is a cat-and-mouse chase that you won't want to miss. Bond's sidekick Goodnight was hot, but that does not distract her extremely annoying incompetence, but Christopher Lee was perfect at Scaramanga. The movie pits itself into the final showdown between Scaramanga and 007, two of the few remaining killers in the world, while still racing for the impossible device that will save the world's energy crisis. How does it end? Buy this movie and you shall see.
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Summary: The Best Bond Yet
Review: "The Man With The Golden Gun" is my favourite James Bond movie. The villan is a strange man known to the audience as Scaramunga. Scaramunga creates a maze with statues everywhere of James Bond. Scaramunga challenges spies who travel through the maze trying to kill the opponent, yet scaramuga always wins with his golden gun and golden bullets. When James Bond is challenged to Scaramunga, who will die?
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Summary: MOORE BOND!
Review: "The Man With The Golden Gun" is possibly one of Roger Moore's best at playing the secret agent, 007. Maybe not as action-packed and exciting as his previous "Live And Let Die", but still quite clever and interesting! Christopher Lee plays as the villian, Francisco Scaramanga, an expert assassin who's out to kill Bond. His weapon: A gold-made pistol. ONE SHOT AND IT'S LIGHTS OUT! But that's not his only intention. Scaramanga will stop at nothing to retrieve the priceless Solex Agitator energy converter, which absorbs power from the sun! With the help of a Hong Kong friend, the beautiful Miss Goodnight, and the return of the funny Louisiana sheriff, D.W. Pepper, 007 races against time to stop the mysterious hitman before it's too late! Who will triumph? And has Bond finally met his match???
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Summary: Man with the Golden Gun
Review: I received this DVD for Christmas. At 1:20:00 the disc locks up. I later rented a copy from the video store and it too locked up at the exact same spot. The DVD of this film appears to be deffective. The movie is great so long as you have a working DVD.
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Summary: The Bond car is an AMC Hornet!
Review: The choice of car is symbolic of this entry -- the weakest of the entire series. The film does have some positives: Christopher Lee is very good as super assassin Francisco Scaramanga; Maud Adams is sexy and very sympathetic as the doomed Andrea Anders and the location photography in Thailand is beautiful. However, there are three very glaring weaknesses to the film that doom it to the bottom rung of Bond films. First, Hervé Villechaize is absolutely ridiculous as the "super henchman" Nick Nack. Especially after Robert Shaw as Red Grant and Harold Sakata as Oddjob, Villechaize is laughable. He is never menacing or threatening, just irritating. Villechaize grates on the audience's nerves at an increasing rate until the end when Bond neutralizes him by stuffing him in a suitcase as he whines that Bond is "a big bully." Doesn't quite match the punch of Oddjob being electrocuted by Sean Connery, does it? Britt Ekland, who is VERY sexy in Golden Gun, unfortunately is also the most inept and stupid female in the entire series. While believability has never been a hallmark of the Bond series, Ekland's Mary Goodnight is so dumb and so incompetent it makes the audience wonder why Bond doesn't have her replaced with someone who can find their butt with two hands and a copy of Gray's Anatomy. The Bond films have always been strongest when the heroines' beauty is matched by their brains -- Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, Diana Rigg as Tracy DiVicenzo, Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova, Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, Halle Berry as Jinx, etc. When a Bond heroine is as blindingly idiotic as Ekland's Goodnight, the series earns its reputation for treating females like decoration. Most damaging to the film, however, is its cartoonish and juvenille sense of humor. This was an unfortunate addition to the Bond series in Diamonds Are Forver which got worse in Live and Let Die and reaches its height (or nadir) in Golden Gun. Every time the film builds some dramatic tension or sets up a great action scene, it squanders the moment with stupid 10 year old level humor. During the chase along the Bangkok canals, for example, we suddenly see Sheriff J.W. Pepper (Clifton James) from Live and Let Die who just happens to be vacationing in Thailand. James is a terrific character actor, but his J.W. Pepper is to the Bond films what Jar Jar Binks was to the Star Wars films. I wish the Bond producers had had Pepper come back for The Spy Who Loved Me so the audience would have the pleasure of seeing Jaws chew him to bits. Even the film's greatest stunt is just about ruined by this infantile sense of humor. Bond, while pursuing Lee's Scaramanaga in the previously mentioned Hornet, executes a spectacular corkscrew jump over a canal. During the jump, however, the sound effects idiot in charge added a slide whistle sound effect, thereby lowering the level of the action to a Saturday morning cartoon. Time and time again, the audience is subjected to these stupid attempts at humor. The Man With the Golden Gun could have been so much better. It's too bad that this was Harry Saltzman's swan song as a Bond producer. I love Warner Brothers cartoons, but not when they're masquerading as a James Bond film.
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