The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Stars	User	Rating
9	BillyShears	65 _42nd
You know what’s better than Christopher Lee as your Bond villain? Knowing he has three nipples which offer no tactical advantage. Then there’s a dwarf as the icing on this cake. As others have said just pretend you didn’t hear the slide whistle, no the dwarf isn’t using it to torture Bond, it’s so much worse than that.
4	Trooth	73 _64th
"I've never killed a midget before, but there can always be a first time." James Bond, you eloquent genius.
2	Pickpocket	6 _55th
A flawed but enjoyable Bond film. There's no humor in the entire movie, which is odd for a Bond film. For some reason they brought back that sheriff from the previous film, who is by far the worst part of the series to date. The guy makes Judd Apatow look like a comedy genius. Christopher Lee as the villain has been the best villain to date and that midget was a lot of fun. Needed more one liners and humor to be an all time great Bond, but still a fun time.
2	Ytadel	7 _83rd
It's one of the silliest Bonds, but still fun. Moore plays Bond with a balance of trademark British charm and a bit of Bondian brute force. Christopher Lee is very cool as a dark version of what Bond could have been. It's also got awesome stunts (car corkscrew - just ignore that slide whistle), zippy music, an Old West gun duel, kung fu fighting, and Nick Nack. The main problem is just how damn SILLY it is - the absurd Bond girl Goodnight doesn't help here. (Ytadel's series ranking: #18 of 24)
2	bellamyr	78 _49th
The script may have more holes than a Swiss cheese but the story remains entertaining none the less. Christopher Lee is exquisitly evil as Scaramange and Lulu belts out the main theme to good effect. Some stunning locations and the plot moves fast enough to cover over the flaws in the plot. For me, the first signs of Bond losing his way start to appear here although to be fair they don't spoil this outing for 007
2	Der_Barney	76 _31st
Unengaging plot, but Chris Lee is always great. Roger Moore has found his footing as Bond and the movie has some nice stunts and gimmicks. Slightly sub-par for a Bond movie overall.
2	ewp805	75 _60th
Christopher Lee. What more do you want?
2	BeeDub	78 _39th
A weak Bond film whose only bright spots are a cool car stunt (the barrel roll) and great villain (Christopher Lee). Otherwise very subpar.
1	nuotio	64 _79th
Somewhat lesser Bond, which still has a nice flow, perhaps due to shorter duration, exotic Asian setting and, most of all, Christopher Lee as the villain. Lee really lifts this film up a couple of notches. Then again there's J.W. Pepper which makes the film occasionally resemble a Smokey and the Bandit -film, and Ekland's bond girl who doesn't stand a chance to some of the earlier ones.
1	twincinema	45 _23rd
This feels like the Frankenstein's monster of Bonds, where they tried to put a bunch of pieces together that don't work. J.W. Pepper shows up again, in an awful racist cameo that is supposed to liven up the film but ends up being irritating. Christopher Lee feels under used. The funhouse scenes are great, and I wish they were in a different film.
1	Freder	60 _43rd
Gets off to a rocky start thanks to a nose-wrinkling emphasis on Christopher Lee's nipples, a dull opening scene and the lousiest theme song in the entire series . . . but once Sir Rog takes the screen and is actually allowed off the sound stage and on to some visually interesting locations, this Bond picks up well. Lee manages to make a dull part interesting, even if his defeat is too perfunctory. A minor entry in the series that comes at a bad time.
1	KasperL	50 _30th
Christopher Lee plays my favorite Bond villain. He's amazing but, disappointingly, trapped in an incredibly silly instalment. Ekland is annoyingly bland, annoyingly superflous and, well, plain annoying in general. Moore is able to get away with the obligatory oneliners and some of the cheesiness is relatively funny which decidedly does not include a ridiculous Nick Nack and the abhorrently insufferable J. W. Pepper.
1	INDYATMN	78 _51st
Of course, Christopher Lee makes a great Bond villain & half of this is a very different kind of Bond film w/ the stakes as grounded & personal as possible; although the last third brings in the usual world threat almost as an afterthought. There's also a great scene involving a karate school that does not go the the way you'd expect & a scenic if not thrilling boat chase. What really doesn't work is the "comedic" klutzy female spy who might as well have been played by Suzanne Somers.
1	EastonD	45 _30th
scaramanga is the true hero of this film. he cares about the environment by promoting solar energy, he didn't let his three nippled deformity hold him back and became a millionaire, employs the differently-abled without batting an eye and regularly gets up in the guts of a prime maud adams.
1	janus	55 _24th
Campy even for this series. Couple good fights (both memorably involve mirrors). Excellent sets, like the funhouse and the tilted boat interiors. And an iconic location in Scaramanga's island.
1	Mechatigger	57 _26th
007 has gone slightly stale.
1	Seryxa	25 _43rd
Thin and obvious Bond extravaganza with conventional expensive excitements.
1	wetwillies	90 _80th
Highly underrated. I loved it, at least.
1	overrated	68 _74th
It's a Moore film where the campiness works for it, not against it. The director outright says "fuck it, this is a joke" when they play the slide-whistle during the corkscrew stunt. The Man With The Golden Gun is also helped enormously by having Christopher Lee as the villain, who is a strong favorite for best of the entire franchise (really, it's either him or Robert Shaw).
1	PetrosTser	70 _66th
Moore's sophomore effort as 007 has, one could argue, a more original script than many of the previous films; and it is this variation that makes it all the more compelling. Sir Christopher Lee is an interesting villain, Ekland is gorgeous but acts like a piece of wood, and regulars Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn and Lois Maxwell are reliable as always. The Man with the Golden Gun doesn't have that many classic scenes as previous Bond films, but is blessed to have a much more engaging screenplay.
1	burkayadalig	66 _30th
good tech, great villain, most beautiful Bond girls, Roger Moore... and yet nothing fits together... pity
1	svnhf	28 _13th
One of the most frustrating Bond movies; it has one of the most enticing villains in Scaramanga, both written perfectly and performed perfectly by Lee, but the whole thing is just bugged down by a boring plot filled with holes and with Roger Moore resorting to cardboard Bond, flanked by the most annoyingly stupid Goodnight and ever irritating and racist JW, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. While Live and Let Die was outrageous on an entertaining level, this is just frustrating and terrible.
1	Alex WS	66 _51st
The previous movie had a sense of freshness that Roger brought with him. Now that he is no longer "new", not even Christopher Lee can elevate what is a very formulaic Bond movie.
1	Shosanna	25 _33rd
I want a special edition of this film with the J.W. Pepper scenes cut out. It wouldn't even be hard to do. Make it happen. (2.5/5)
1	amazedemon	67 _75th
Hamilton's final Bond film is a marked improvement from Live & Let Die as it embraces the exotic locations & the campy side of the Bond franchise, even if Moore is more stoic (or less charming) than Connery. Lee & Villechaize are the best part of the film, for both their charm & almost being an equal match for Bond. Ekland is great as the walking disaster, Goodnight. The lowered-stake plot is a nice change of pace, though the energy crisis aspect is still upsettingly relevant 50 years on.
1	metalhank	72 _83rd
What's not to like about another classic Bond film. It has guns, action, babes and an excellent actor playing the villain.

Average Percentile 43.51% from 2043 Ratings