Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

mark.waltz There will always be debates over who was the best Bond, and I cannot come up with an answer that would settle the argument for the billions of fans. I grew up seeing Sean Connery on TV and Roger Moore in the movies. I like to think of each of them as different men named James Bond, perhaps cousins, both going into the same profession or having the same alias, or each be working in an alternate universe. With the recent death of Roger Moore, I'm starting once again to revisit the series, finding Connery to be more action based (with women and martini's on the side) and Moore playing Bond as if he was a 70's version of Cary Grant, mixing action in with the martinis and women and including some wonderful verbal comedy and a dab of farce.In his second stint as James Bond, he's traveling around to find the assassin who may or may not be out to kill him. This takes him all over the world, locations I won't mention because it's too much fun to discover those yourself. What I will reveal is that Moore pretty much turns the entire world into his own version of Six Flags, whether chasing (or being chased) down an exotic canal, being pestered by a kid selling ivory elephants (and getting rid of him in the most amusing way) and later driving along with tourist Clifton James who seems straight out of "The Dukes of Hazard" and gets his share of laughs with some stereotypical hick humor.Then, there's the villains, or the presumed ones, in this case, Christopher Lee and diminutive Herve Villichaize ("Fantasy Island") who has a few surprising moments of his own. The women are varied and many, covering many different nationalities, and the sexuality of the film is handled with class and humor. Moore gets his hands filled with more than just the villains and women, at one point dealing with a sumo wrestler in a very private area, and even getting to disguise himself with a third nipple. This is a lot of fun from start to finish, and I remember now why back in my youth, a new Bond film always meant a trip to the cinema, back when you didn't need aspirin to deal with excessive noisy sound effects.

BondGirl77 While not the best Bond film, TMWTGG is definitely memorable. Christopher Lee is fabulous as Scaramanga, and Herve is great as his sidekick Nick Nack. They are two of my most favorite Bond villains. The golden gun is cool, the fun house is great, and the island lair is awesome. I was sad to see it destroyed at the end.Maud Adams is very believable as Scaramanga's frightened girlfriend. She plays her role well and looks beautiful in every scene. The musical score was quite nice. I liked the main theme song, and I really liked the musical montages throughout the film.The main problem that I had with this film, is that Roger was not playing Bond in his own style. I have since read that it was the director who wanted him to play the role with more toughness, while Roger did not particularly enjoy some of the scenes that he had to do. Such as the scene where he slapped Andrea across the face, and twisted her arm behind her back and threatened to break it. I did not care for that scene and found that it just didn't suit Roger's style. I also strongly disliked the scene where he pushed Goodnight into the closet and had sex with Andrea right in the same room. Then when Andrea leaves and he gets Goodnight out of the closet, he does not even apologize. Simply that it was all in the line of duty and not to worry because her time will come ? Yuck. He came across as such a cad in that scene. We know all too well Bond's penchant for hopping from one woman's bed to another, but Roger always played the role with charm and humour. While never committing to one woman, Roger's Bond always seemed to genuinely care for the women he was with. His behavior in these scenes were out of character for him, and they made me dislike his character. So glad he went back to his usual style in the next film.This is definitely not Moore's best Bond film, but it is certainly not his worse either. The villains are great, the island hideaway is great, the music is great, and Maud Adams does a great job with her role. Roger is as handsome as usual, and he does have some funny lines (ie: when he aims the gun at the guy's crotch and tells him to talk or forever hold his piece), but he was not playing the role his way, and seeing him playing Bond as a "brute" and a "cad", just didn't suit him. Still an enjoyable watch, but definitely not my favorite.

stormhawk2018 I enjoy this particular entry about on the same level as Moore's previous Bond flick "Live and Let Die", some intriguing elements but the final product comes out to be above average. Once again Moore is fantastic and having the awesome Christopher Lee as the villain is genius casting. I also liked how this film played around with the idea of having Scaramanga being an evil-version of Bond. It's just a shame that Lee is criminally underutilized and the plot takes a few too many detours (Ex. The really pointless martial arts tournament sequence). Thankfully, the Roger Moore era of the Bond franchise is about to finally take off in the next entry "The Spy Who Loved Me"!!

connorbbalboa *Sigh* I know. You all must think I hate Roger Moore as Bond. I don't. He is capable as James Bond and when he and the script get it completely right, like with The Spy Who Loved Me, he can pull off his sense of humor very well. It's just that most of the movies he has been in really are quite bad. Actually, this one isn't as crappy as many of the others; I would rank it third behind The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only. It still is quite mediocre.In this one, Bond is investigating a plot by the villain Francisco Scaramanga (the awesome Christopher Lee), who personally wants to kill him. Along the way, he tries to avoid sleeping with the pretty hot, but pretty useless Mary Goodnight (Why did the Moore films have most of the dumbest Bond girl names in the franchise?), gets into a car chase with the annoying Sheriff J.W. Pepper (Clifton James) from the previous film, Live and Let Die, in the passenger seat and the famous "slide whistle" car spin, gets put into a martial arts school (don't ask), and makes out with Scaramanga's girlfriend (Maude Adams), who wants Bond to put him down.Christopher Lee is the actor I love watching most in the movie. He does not have a bad line or moment. He's just the absolute king here. The sad thing is, besides killing Bond, his plot isn't that much to care about. He merely wants to use a certain device to control solar power, its prices, and who gets it. It's not really a threatening plot. Like with the heroin in Live and Let Die, not everyone uses solar power. Plus, what is he going to do with the money? He seems to have a content life just challenging people to death matches with his one-bullet golden gun. Look, I'm fine with Bond villain schemes that aren't about taking over the world. If I wasn't, I wouldn't have liked films like Casino Royale and Skyfall so much. For them to work, though, a personal scheme has to hurt a lot of people for it to be a major concern, and really, the only people who will be affected by this scheme are the really rich guys that actually have solar power and the people who are targets for personal assassinations that Scaramanga gets payed for.Moore is better as Bond here, and doesn't calculate his performance so much. When he tries to be cold, however, like when he interrogates Scaramanga's girlfriend, he isn't very organic. Connery would have brought more brute strength and cold-hearted lust to it, considering that his version of Bond seems to be quite at home with moments like this. Britt Ekland as Goodnight does not do a very good job and is probably the worst actor in the film. She's pretty hot, like many of the Moore Bond girls, but useless and when Bond is trying to recover that solar power device, she almost gets him killed or seriously injured. One other character here is a smaller person named Nick Nack who serves Scaramanga. I don't understand what he wants, and besides that, he's also quite annoying. The most confounding moment is when he tells Bond that he'll inherit everything from Scaramanga if he kills him. Wasn't Nick Nack supposed to be Scaramanga's friend? But it turns out that he was still loyal to Scaramanga as he tries to kill Bond after he has sex with Goodnight. It's just confusing.Besides that, some of the action is fun, although the whole situation with the martial arts school has no purpose, and Moore's improved performance certainly helps, but the uninteresting secondary scheme of the villain and the goofy bits that seem to be a trademark of most of the Moore films don't. Bottom line, The Man With the Golden Gun has its moments, but it is very average.