Review of The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) by The-Lords A — 08 Jun 2013

Bond film number 9 and the second one with Moore, here's my review for The Man with the Golden Gun.

Plot: When a golden bullet has Bond's code name '007' etched into its surface, the agency is lead to believe that it's the work of famed assassin Francisco Scaramanga, who uses a golden gun to kill his targets. Because of this M relives Bond from the case for finding him. But Bond unoffically goes on investigation anyway by finding out where the bullet is manufactured and works his way to identify and face him.

Now this particular film has some argument as to whether or not consider it the worst Bond film there is. Because while some of the action was kind of okay, we have a story that wasn't quite as entertaining or as amusing as you'd think, more silly moments and not much imagination. In fact we get a chase scene where we get the police chief from the previous film as the comedy relief and - you guessed it - he was unfunny and didn't really have any reason to be in this film at all. The main 'good' thing about this movie is Christopher Lee playing as Scaramanga. Most people - myself included as of after seeing this film - consider him to more or less be the best part of the movie, but some people, or at least I for one thought they could've done more for him as a villain. Scaramanga was a very interesting concept and Lee was awesome because...well it's freaking Christopher Lee, but I found myself at a loss about how Scaramanga and Bond were viewed as equals. I mean I see some of it, but I wasn't completely sure how that worked. The main Bond girl in the film Mary Goodnight was also a kind of mix. Because on one hand she did kind of try to be a little more helpful then she was really capable, but was otherwise helpless and kind of a bimbo like Tiffany case.

And that's my review for The Man with the Golden Gun. It seems to have an interesting concept with its villain and had some nice action, but otherwise just gave us the unfunny sheriff again, gave us another helpless Bond girl, and a story that wasn't very interesting.