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The Man with the Golden Gun

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974
Suspense/Thriller
Crime
2h 5m
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Avg Percentile 43.44% from 2092 total ratings

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Rated 15 Feb 2024
78
40th
Christopher Lee and the barrel roll car stunt are the two highlights of this otherwise mediocre Bond film.
Rated 03 May 2019
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.
Rated 09 Jan 2014
73
64th
"I've never killed a midget before, but there can always be a first time." James Bond, you eloquent genius.
Rated 03 Aug 2009
75
60th
Christopher Lee. What more do you want?
Rated 04 Nov 2015
45
22nd
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.
Rated 02 Jan 2008
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
Rated 14 Aug 2007
7
84th
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)
Rated 28 Jul 2008
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.
Rated 08 Dec 2015
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.
Rated 21 Apr 2020
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.
Rated 28 Feb 2013
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.
Rated 10 Jan 2010
68
75th
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).
Rated 16 Feb 2010
90
80th
Highly underrated. I loved it, at least.
Rated 03 Sep 2010
70
69th
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.
Rated 28 Sep 2018
72
82nd
What's not to like about another classic Bond film. It has guns, action, babes and an excellent actor playing the villain.
Rated 05 Aug 2013
66
30th
good tech, great villain, most beautiful Bond girls, Roger Moore... and yet nothing fits together... pity
Rated 27 Mar 2010
25
43rd
Thin and obvious Bond extravaganza with conventional expensive excitements.
Rated 18 Sep 2022
67
76th
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.
Rated 15 Mar 2010
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.
Rated 21 Oct 2012
50
29th
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.
Rated 24 Feb 2016
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.
Rated 10 Dec 2012
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.
Rated 27 Jul 2013
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)
Rated 24 Dec 2010
57
26th
007 has gone slightly stale.
Rated 31 Jan 2007
64
80th
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.
Rated 11 Feb 2008
62
17th
One of the most boring Bond films. Nothing redeeming comes to mind.
Rated 22 Dec 2007
55
32nd
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Rated 19 Jul 2011
73
44th
Enjoyable but expendable Bond outing, which bogs down a little too much in the middle. Ekland makes for a fairly bland Bond girl, while one wishes that Adams had been given the more prominent role (wait for OCTOPUSSY!) Christopher Lee makes for a debonair villian, and Villechaize is also amusing; highlighted by some of the smarmiest Bond wisecracks in the series, delivered by Moore with his usual aplomb.
Rated 01 Oct 2012
60
20th
Good, dumb fun. But watching this in modern times, it's difficult not to cringe at how misogynistic this movie is.
Rated 29 Jan 2018
40
16th
I love the idea of Bond dueling against an assassin but I don't know what happened with the rest of this movie. Just pure silliness.
Rated 19 Nov 2023
72
83rd
It has some iconic scenes for sure. As a character study of Scaramanga it was also interesting, how much he wanted to be refined and Bond's foil, and at the end you see revealed Bond's disdain for him. In the way Scaramanga loves killing, doesn't understand his science, doesn't care for the greater political issues he is involved in, and doesn't care for good wine. You can see the circus background in his fun house special. Just a shame it lacks a greater scheme, and sometimes it is too silly.
Rated 11 Nov 2023
6
34th
It kind of goes through the motions of what a Bond movie should sound and look like: the oddball villains, your run of the mill Bond girls and Roger Moore spewing corny one liners, all this without a distinctive identity that makes it truly special and memorable. It takes little risks and is somewhat boring because of it.
Rated 01 Dec 2011
75
57th
One of Moore's better Bond films (if not his best). Christopher Lee does what he usually does by being awesome. Finally, it led to hours of frustration and glory by introducing the golden gun to Goldeneye for the N64. Good stuff.
Rated 01 Oct 2016
69
23rd
Christopher Lee is a great villain. When he's on screen it's like I'm watching a totally different movie, a real Bond blockbuster with tension and spying and fun action and a purpose. When he's not on screen it's a mediocre B-movie with a shitty feel and bad dialogue and tedious waiting for him to come back. The writing of the women, and Bond's interaction with them, is really off-puyting.
Rated 22 Jun 2016
66
30th
Sheriff Pepper is probably the best character ever
Rated 24 Nov 2014
45
44th
An average Bond movie, which requires patience.
Rated 18 Oct 2015
87
82nd
Essentially the same movie as the previous one - with the same awkward mash up of B- movie genres - but Lee's performance and the eerie loneliness of his surreal island saves it for me. Moore's Bond shows a tiny bit more grit than in the previous outing and the whole thing has much more of that internationalist feel I love, but now that the formula has been exposed it feels much staler than Live or Let Die and doesn't win the same sense of good will from me.
Rated 19 Feb 2008
60
31st
Would perhaps be Moore's best without the terribly anticlimatic ending. Awesome stunts and oneliners, as usual.
Rated 16 Sep 2008
25
25th
Bond er bare Bond
Rated 25 Nov 2008
6
55th
Yay for Christopher Lee!
Rated 22 Jun 2016
82
63rd
I won't charge a million dollars to take a shot at this movie... but I will say that I really liked this one. Roger Moore was pretty funny in this one. Christopher Lee was amazing as the highly paid assassin with the Golden Gun. The whole "energy crisis" plot seemed really dumb but when the focused on the back and forth attacks between Bond and Scaramanga things got really interesting. The section with Hai Fat was really interesting too...
Rated 28 Nov 2008
70
50th
Way better than live and let die.
Rated 23 Feb 2010
69
46th
This film probably contributes to a lot of your perception of the Bond films, what with the gorgeous locations, gorgeous girls and not-so gorgeous dialogue. As usual, it is worth seeing if you haven't seen it before.
Rated 22 Jun 2010
90
65th
Awesome Bond movie
Rated 30 Apr 2012
80
63rd
A standard Roger Moore Bond flick, not any better or worse than the others. What sets it apart? The villain has three nipples.
Rated 24 Dec 2008
82
81st
Fantastic Bond movie, with action and gadgets, the whole works. Christopher Lee makes a very formidable foe and the plot is fairly interesting.
Rated 23 Jul 2014
20
12th
These just keep getting worse. It's 125 minutes too long, and it manages to feel 185 minutes too long. J.W. Pepper sucks worse than ever, the technical elements (again, the editing) are worse than ever and it's now blatantly obvious that every single element of the production is the result of a memo by the producers. Usually I find something of value in Bond, but not here -- this is utter trash; an abortion that came to term and grew up to be the uncle you don't speak about on Christmas.
Rated 13 Sep 2007
41
34th
One of the more entertaining Bond films. Herve plays a lovable villain.
Rated 14 May 2013
7
57th
The Man with the Golden Gun marked Roger Moore's second appearance as 007 and it's an enjoyable but understated addition. Christopher Lee gives one of the most memberable performances of his career as Scaramanga and he remains a timeless Bond villain. Whilst Britt Ekland & Maud Adams are both memorable Bond girls also. And of course Roger Moore is on top form. The scale feels smaller than several other Bond films of this era, but the set pieces and sense of escapism still satisfyingly delivers.
Rated 04 Apr 2019
50
10th
Nick-nack: "I may be small but I never forget!"
Rated 15 Jun 2011
20
10th
ass pushing button was good
Rated 04 Jul 2013
30
19th
Cynical.
Rated 02 Feb 2014
62
26th
Pretty unremarkable. Lee is interesting, but that is about it.
Rated 29 Mar 2007
50
33rd
Not even somebody as cool as Christopher Lee can make this very exciting
Rated 05 Apr 2010
49
47th
Mistakes - 1) The camera crew are seen in a reflection in the mirror in a fight scene. 2) A cameraman is seen in a reflection in a shower scene.
Rated 16 Apr 2015
45
21st
It's a shame that this is as mediocre as it is, because it features a fantastic performance by Christopher Lee as the villain (which honestly saves the whole thing from being horrible). Mary Goodnight, JW Pepper, hokey sound effects, and an anticlimactic ending kind of ruin it, on the whole.
Rated 18 Jun 2008
72
47th
It is a great delight finally to watch two beautiful ladies in a bond movie comparible to ursula andress...
Rated 12 Feb 2012
70
44th
It's a classic Bond from the Moore era of campiness. Famous for guns, girls and nipples. The corkscrew car stunt, although one of the most difficult and impressive at the time, is delivered to the screen with the same slapstick schtick as everything else. Not necessarily a good thing, but typical of Moore's time.
Rated 29 Dec 2008
75
60th
Kind of boring and super '70s with its spinning rooms of mirrors and lights. Enjoyable still. Christopher Lee is always great.
Rated 14 Sep 2019
63
52nd
Much better than I remembered. Lacks overwrought bombast - instead settles in as a rollicking 'exotic' adventure through SE Asia. Too bad Adams and Ekland appear disgustingly emaciated. But Lee is awesome (of course - he would have made a great Bond), and the scenery and sets (including a dali-esque underwater sea base) are as good as it gets. And God bless them Southern Democrats - always doing their best to represent the US of A wherever they go.
Rated 07 Sep 2023
67
53rd
I think this is the best non-Connery installment so far. That's thanks in large part to Christopher Lee, who is one the best (and may be the best) villains to this point in the series. My rating is based on forgetting the existence of the slide whistle, which has to be the absolute most egregiously bad sound effect I've ever seen in anything ever.
Rated 02 Nov 2014
10
2nd
The worst Bond film with a anti-climactic ending.
Rated 11 Aug 2011
76
32nd
It's just lazy, nobody is putting in very much effort, and it's also a surprisingly unattractively filmed movie - the colors look tacky and it's just generally ugly. The plot hinges on everyone being stupid, bad comic relief characters show up again, and the fight scenes have zero tension. Also, worst Bond girl ever.
Rated 22 Dec 2010
37
27th
Boring plot, boring film. A couple of good lines and nice girls but the rest is a real snore.
Rated 07 Mar 2018
60
21st
Oh my god they brought J.W. back. 5/7 perfect movie. Narrative - passable. Action - weak. Characters - meh. This one lives or dies by the camp.
Rated 24 Mar 2014
63
27th
63.000
Rated 31 Aug 2013
65
45th
I'm so glad they brought back the hillbilly Louisiana sheriff, and made him racist too!
Rated 13 Aug 2014
65
30th
Best cop vs best assassin.. Basically the assassin has the upperhand throughout the hole movie but fails to really want to 'pull the trigger'. Bond gets one shot and uses it in the end :D really didnt like the parts with the forced comedy with the American cop dude... Roger Moore really makes for a great Bond :) and the bond girls in this one are pretty good too. Overal, a pretty standard action movie.
Rated 13 Jun 2020
40
31st
Only for James Bonds fans
Rated 03 Jul 2009
75
38th
Love Bond Films. Have to see it even if you don't like Roger Moore it's pretty good.
Rated 10 Feb 2009
65
41st
The funhouse scene is wonderfully staged, with an eye for suspense that is now unseen in popular cinema. And it has Christopher Lee. So there's a lot to love here, despite it's narrative shortfalls.
Rated 20 Jun 2020
15
6th
UQFR #134: Christopher Lee has 3 nipples in this film and its so well known that James Bond added a 3rd nipple to disguise himself as Scaramanga.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
48
35th
It's okay, but Bond bores me.
Rated 11 Jun 2015
20
6th
Nothing works in this film. The music (worst theme tune so far by quite some way), the direction, the editing - it's all second-rate work made in too much of a hurry.
Rated 18 Oct 2012
30
33rd
After Bond girls started slowly becoming more competent and interesting, it's back to square one with Ekland's dumb-as-a-post blonde who screws up everything she touches. The plot is beyond silly, and it knows it. Moore still can't play Bond, they brought back Sheriff Pepper (OH GOD WHY?), and now stunt scenes come with comedy swanee whistle sound effects. If not for Lee's excellent villain making the most of a lousy role then this would score much lower.
Rated 22 Jul 2021
67
60th
Pretty good movie. I really liked the main villain in this one. Feels like a real threat to Bond. I also liked the quirky side characters.
Rated 18 Apr 2013
50
19th
Yeah, that kind of was a poor way of killing of Christopher Lee after all that buildup. Also a lot of other things were amiss, but mostly that.
Rated 26 Oct 2007
67
33rd
This movie was not the best in the James Bond series.
Rated 19 Feb 2007
55
49th
Good film.
Rated 02 Jul 2012
65
64th
Moore's second Bond film is better than the first one in every way other than the Bond Girl. Ekland is beautiful, but irritatingly stupid and incompetent. The older Bond films have very dated action scenes and the quieter ones often hold up the best. This is also the case in this one which mainly is about simple action with few people in them. Christopher Lee is great as Bond's evil counterpart.
Rated 22 Dec 2011
68
24th
This movie is alright. Roger Moore is not one of my favorite Bonds. Christopher Lee is good as the villain. There are so many better Bond movies then this one
Rated 22 Dec 2012
35
42nd
One protracted chase scene with JW Pepper just wasn't enough goddamn it. Audiences demanded TWICE AS MANY FOR THE SEQUEL. Slide whistle? Really? Awful comic relief really drags down what could have been a much better film. Tries damn hard to be even more racist/offensive than it's predecessor.
Rated 10 Jul 2012
65
35th
64.500
Rated 12 Oct 2016
72
68th
Whoever decided to bring back J. W. will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes, just saying. Lee is awesome in the movie (except for the story about the elephant, that was just weird and I say that even though I also like animals and hurting people). He should have had much more screentime or possibly his own series. And I really like Moore, who brings a refreshing self-deprecating humour to the role.
Rated 26 Oct 2008
80
90th
Nice
Rated 28 Jul 2019
70
42nd
Although this is a deeply flawed Bond film, I still think it stands as one of the better Moore outings. Some really poor decisions are made here. So ... why do I like this one? Moore is consistently quite restrained and not yet embarrassingly too old for the part. Lee is great, and apart for seeming to have no motive for going into the energy business, has a far more grounded and down-to Earth story going on.
Rated 11 Jun 2012
71
28th
While some consider it one of the worst of the series, there's actually a fair amount to recommend about THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, most notably Christopher Lee's superb, complex turn as the master assassin, Scaramanga. The action is brisk and engaging; as a director, Guy Hamilton redeems himself, as does Roger Moore, who seems much more comfortable here. But the script is pretty feeble, with some asinine humor and a limp ending...and J.W. Pepper is brought back. Seriously, fuck that guy.
Rated 28 Jan 2008
68
47th
Roger Moore = the slimy Bond. He's also a big know it all, I was cheering for Count Dooku Saruman to win. The franchise was headed too far camp for my liking. Was this really the same director who did Goldfinger? Amazing. I want my own island.
Rated 02 Jan 2008
60
38th
Christopher Lee's good as usual, but the rest of the movie is not very exciting.
Rated 03 Dec 2010
60
69th
Enjoyable Bond adventure. Macao, Thailand, Fook Mi and another agent bikini babe, cool villain with an island lair and memorable henchman.
Rated 19 Oct 2018
52
54th
Christopher Lee and Roger Moore do just enough to make this decent. The two are required to try their best because at this point the series is threatening to go into a complete tailspin because of bad scripts, shoddy production, and a general lack of new ideas. Fortunately, when the two main characters are on screen together they do wonders for this otherwise middling film.
Rated 30 Jun 2014
40
36th
The first third of the film is intriguing, but starts to become too drawn out in Thailand. The eventual reveal of the evil plot comes too late and is underwhelming given the "genius" plots of previous villains. The showdown resolved much quicker than anticipated and the ending felt thoughtless. Overall a bit disappointing but not the worst I've seen.
Rated 29 Mar 2011
50
24th
Cheesy pish. Dumb.
Rated 29 Dec 2021
91
61st
Director Guy Hamilton admitted that he added the slide whistle to the car roll because he didn't think there was a way the audiences would take such a stunt seriously. He has since regretted this.
Rated 20 Aug 2015
73
50th
Seen 2x
Rated 06 Jan 2024
40
29th
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.
Rated 10 Apr 2007
64
37th
A bond villian with a third nipple, no plans for world domination and a slightly fey looking gun? But its Christopher Lee, scariest man of his and several other generations.
Rated 11 Jun 2018
68
31st
Not a terrible Bond film, especially for starring Roger Moore. I didn't care much for the"golden gun" in question, as that just looked like hot garbage, and the only spy gadget Bond uses is a prosthetic third nipple... but other than that, it's decent
Rated 06 Sep 2009
66
68th
The narrative flow is smooth and the level of big action is low. Christopher Lee is a fine villain in a surprisingly unspectacular Bond film this side of 'From Russia with Love'.
Rated 10 Jul 2012
56
33rd
Roger Moore's Bond has got a rough deal, but whilst this takes itself a little too lightly it has a lot going for it.

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