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Summary: Perhaps the Best Bond Film Ever
Review: This could very well be the best Bond film ever. It ranks up there with Tomorrow Never Dies, Goldeneye, and Moonraker. With the exception of the Energy crisis element, the story is perfect. I have just one question!!! When will this movie be out on DVD?!?!?!!? Long live Roger Moore as one of the best James Bond's ever!!!
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Summary: Christopher Lee is the real winner in "Golden Gun."
Review: Roger Moore's second 007 film is second only to "A View to a Kill" as the least engaging of all. Bond struggles to retrieve a solex agitator to help end the energy crisis, a contemporary problem in 1974, but today, this plot makes us yawn, "Who cares?" The film is so disappointing simply because of the high standards we expect from a Bond film. These are the film's main attractions: Christopher Lee as the awesome Francisco Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun; the excellent title song performed by Lulu; and Maud Adams as Scaramanga's mistress. When it comes to Roger Moore Bonds, stick with "The Spy Who Loved Me," "For Your Eyes Only," and "Octopussy."
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Summary: Even Better Now in STEREO
Review: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN is the "cult" Bond movie to end all "cult" Bond movies. I don't think many people realize that this DVD or even the VHS tape of this movie is in STEREO sound. John Barry's score sounds fantastic. As for the film, it is pure fantasy yet pure "Bond" and very misunderstood.
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Summary: A Contract Is Out For Bond
Review: Roger Moore returns here for the second time as the suave British Agent who's out to save the world.
Here Bond is out to save himself as well as the world when he encounters Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), a cold blooded assassin who kills with a golden gun. Scaramanga is also working on assembling a new weapon to blackmail the world. Bond has the double duty of disposing of the villain as well as his new weapon.
This Bond film is one of the slowest in the Roger Moore collection in terms of all-out action. Cristopher Lee's Scaramanga is one of the best and most sinister arch-villains after Blofeld. The film has the usual sarcasm and humor common to Bond along with the necessary Bond-girl accompaniment of Britt Ekland as agent Mary Goodnight. The film also brings back the comical southern white-trash sherriff (Clifton James) who first appeared in the previous 'Live and Let Die'.
Another good Bond film to rent or own. Roger Moore was still in his prime and delivers a dashing performance worthy of several viewings.
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Summary: Golden Gun lacks polish
Review: The Man With The Golden Gun is the 007 that you find inane, but you can't help but watch it.Made immediately after Live and Let Die,TMWTGG has gone down as the weakest of the 007 entries, despite the presence of Christopher Lee as the "nipuler" million dollar hitman, Scaramanga.
Bond's mission takes him to Tailand where he tracks down Scaramanga who has put a hit on 007.The problem with the movie are it's production values(Scaramanga's funhouse and an impressive, yet unrealistic corkscrew jump) and inane characters(Britt Eckland as incompetant, yet sexy Mary Goodnight,Herve Villicheze as hench man Nick-Nack , and the unnessesary return of Clifton James' Sheriff J.W. Pepper the badly stereotypical redneck law enforcer from LALD.
Even with it's multiple flaws,TMWTGG may be inane and wan, but it's still a fun movie to watch.
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Summary: Golden Dud
Review: I can not talk for Guy Hamilton, but he clearly saw the James Bond films in a much different way then any other director did, because he did the least suucessful films in the series. Golden Gun really suffers from both a poor script and some poor casting choices. It was clear from the start that Maud Adams should have been cast as the main romantic interest. She should have been the agent that helps oo7 while the other one could have been the one that meets her demise with a golden bulliet, but that did not happen.
John Barry score is also poor, the models and effects work look a bit fake, done on a cheaper budget, and we yawn by the time 007 and the Christopher Lee character have their duel at the end. Very poor movie.
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Summary: Solid Spy Story with Ill-Advised Comedy
Review: The most spy like of James Bond movies seem to get the lowest ratings. Thus Roger Lazenby's portrayal of Bond as pure spy and this movie were poorly received. It's too bad because the original Ian Fleming stories focused on James Bond the spy and not James Bond the man with all the gadgets, as does this movie.James Bond finds himself against one of his worthiest adversaries, Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga. Scaramanga is a technically ignorant hit man who sees Bond as a worthy opponent. Early in the movie are hints that Scaramanga would like to face off against James Bond one on one. While Scaramanga may lack a technical background, he is intelligent and extremely accurate with a gun, a single shot gun that fires gold bullets. Lee does so well as Scaramanga that he pretty much makes this movie, and in the process makes Roger Moore's performance seem wooden in comparison. While Lee and Moore's performances may overbalance an excessively humorous script, it's as though this movie had a comedy and a drama overlapping, and the incongruities sometimes make the movie difficult to watch. Bond is chasing after the Solex, a device for converting solar energy to electrical energy in 1974 when it appeared that oil was going to run out within a decade. Businessman Hai Fat (Richard Loo) wants the Solex to obtain a profitable monopoly on solar energy technology, and he will have Scaramanga eliminate anyone who gets in his way. However, Scaramanga decides to eliminate Hai Fat and takes the Solex for himself. In the chess game between Hai Fat and Bond is another boat chase scene in Thailand where the character of Sheriff J.W. Pepper (Clifton James), introduced in "Live and Let Die," appears once more. The boat chase scene through the canals of Bangkok (I think) is interesting, though I would not want to have ended up in one of those canals as Clifton James did. The introduction of Clifton James may have provided some humor, but the humor distracts from the serious nature of the conflict between Bond and Scaramanga. The Sheriff Pepper character comes across as needless filler and a distraction. In terms of sidekicks Scaramanga wins out. Herve Villechaize as Nick Nack was an interesting character. Maud Adams as Andrea Anders is a tortured soul looking for some sort of absolution. Bond on the other hand gets beautiful but way too ditzy and klutzy Mary Goodnight (Britt Eklund). While she looks good in a bikini she offers little to a man-of-the-world such as Bond. I enjoyed the British base on the partially sunken Queen Elizabeth, which had been removed from Hong Kong harbor by the time of the release of the movie. I also enjoyed the transition of the car to airplane by Scaramanga in his getaway from Bond with the Solex. I also thought Scaramanga's island home in The People's Republic of China was cool, but the room with liquid helium tanks for superconductive storage of electricity was another version of Dr. No's reactor room and was technically too implausible to be truly interesting. This movie has a lot going for it, with a solid spy plot and minimal reliance by Bond on gadgets. Lee and Moore have a lot of acting potential, as do Villechaize and Adams along with many of the Bond regulars, but the addition of Eklund and Pepper and excessive, unnecessary jokes distract from the plot. Much of this humor comes across as filler. Disregarding the unnecessary humor, this movie could readily have been a 4 or 5 star movie. However, with the uneven plot and poorly conceived humor, I have to give this Bond movie 3 stars.
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