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007 Action with Roger Moore plus 8 special features included in this Ultimate Special Edition

Description of The Man with the Golden Gun [Region 2]:
The British superspy with a license to kill takes on his dark underworld double, a classy assassin who kills with golden bullets at $1 million a hit. Roger Moore, in his second outing as James Bond, meets Christopher Lee's Scaramanga, one of the most magnetic villains in the entire series, in this entertaining but rather wan entry in the 007 sweepstakes. Bond's globetrotting search takes him to Hong Kong, Bangkok, and finally China, where Scaramanga turns his island retreat into a twisted theme park for a deadly game of wits between the gunmen, moderated by Scaramanga's diminutive man Friday Nick Nack (Fantasy Island's Hervé Villechaize). Britt Ekland does her best as the most embarrassingly inept Bond girl in 007 history, a clumsy, dim agent named Mary Goodnight who looks fetching in a bikini, while Maud Adams is Scaramanga's tough but haunted lover and assistant (she returns to the series as the title character in Octopussy). Clifton James, the redneck sheriff from Live and Let Die, makes an embarrassing and ill-advised appearance as a racist tourist who briefly teams up with 007 in what is otherwise the film's highlight, a high-energy chase through the crowded streets of Bangkok that climaxes with a breathtaking midair corkscrew jump. Bond and company are let down by a lazy script, but Moore balances the overplayed humor with a steely performance and Lee's charm and enthusiasm makes Scaramanga a cool, deadly, and thoroughly enchanting adversary. --Sean Axmaker

The Man with the Golden Gun [Region 2] Reviews:
Bond, James Bond....The Man with the Golden Gun
2009-09-12 - I received this dvd in the timeframe stated by the seller. The price and condition were GREAT. I will buy from this seller again if the opportunity presents itself.

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BOND: MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
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What Do Most People Remember About This Bond?
2009-02-21 - I wonder - what do most people remember about this Bond? If they remember nothing else, my guess is that they remember Scaramanga's infamous 'third nipple.' The movie is a 'third tier' Bond, watchable but not stellar. I will go over both good points and bad in my effort to be fair.

The single best thing about "The Man With The Golden Gun" is unquestionably villain Christopher Lee's portrayal of Scaramanga. It would be memorable even if he didn't have the additional protuberance of the third nipple. Bernard Lee is back as "M" while Lois Maxwell continues to play an effective Moneypenny. And "Q" is brought back out of the mothballs where he was stuffed for "Live And Let Die," giving a good performance.

But Lee steals the show. He carries himself as a not arrogant but quite confident villain who was once an assassin for the KGB. He lives well because he receives $1 million a hit, so he spends it on an island with Britt Ekland in her 'Rod Stewart days.' Britt is basically Lee's piece of 'love meat' just prior to the killing. Scaramanga has devised a house of mirrors into which he lures others for a variation of the old country game, duel. But Scaramanga, of course, has all the advantages because it's his house. Yet to offset these advantages, his midget sidekick Nick Nack ("Tattoo" from 'Fantasy Island') is promised he can inherit Scaramanga's entire fortune if Scaramanga loses. So Nick Nack sets up traps as Scaramanga usually has to locate his weapon ('the golden gun') before he can engage the duel.

Obviously, Scaramanga never loses or there wouldn't be a movie. Enter Commander James Bond, 007, license to kill.

The opening scene witnesses the killing of an unnamed gangster played by the king of comedic gangsters, Marc Lawrence. (He played a similar character in "Diamonds Are Forever."). Scaramanga then shoots the fingers off of a wax museum Bond and the next scene shows a golden bullet with 007 in the hands of MI6. "M" dismisses Bond from the case but as is nearly always the case, Bond decides to work on it anyway. Bond eventually discovers Scaramanga in Thailand where he is working a conspiracy with a millionaire industrialist named Hai Fat to corner the solution to the energy crisis. Because nobody ever meets Scaramanga, this enables him to easily deceive Hai Fat. It also enables Bond to pose as Scaramanga. Hai Fat seems enthralled with a mausoleum he is building for himself - so much so that when Scaramanga plugs Hai Fat, the most memorable line of the film is uttered by Lee: "He always liked that mausoleum. Put him in it." Scaramanga is now on the fast path to the even easier life. Bond locates him and has dinner - whereupon the European brand of machismo is practiced when Scaramanga tries to make their lives similar, a contention that Bond rejects. They decide 'pistols at 20 paces,' leading to a less-than-stellar ending of Bond killing 'the man with the golden gun.'

Lee's performance was remarkable and the usual suspects - Lee, Maxwell, and Desmond Llewellyn - give decent portrayals as well. (Lee, in fact, was a relative of James Bond author, Ian Fleming).

But the bad in this movie is far too thick to overcome the good. Tattoo (playing Nick Nack) is in over his head and it has nothing to do with his short height, either. He has a face that looks when smiling like he's on Prozac. And Roger Moore was decent but again, he was no Sean Connery.

But by far the absolute WORST thing about this Bond movie was the reappearance of Sheriff J.W. Pepper (who had a bigger role in "Live And Let Die"), the tobacco chewing, cussing Cajun with a cousin named 'Billy Bawb.' This character was extraneous to the entire move in 'Live And Let Die.' You see, that have Bond run into this guy in Thailand. And I surely can't be the only person who wondered what an American would be doing in an auto showroom in Bangkok sitting in the front seat like he's going to buy it. Pepper might be stupid, but even he's not stupid enough to think he can drive from Bangkok back to Baton Rouge. (The producers of the film apparently don't have the intellect to consider such things). Then you have the car chase that ensues with Bond driving and Pepper in the passenger seat. They try to chase Scaramanga, who has Bond's agent sidekick Goodnight in the trunk. He vanishes into a barn, attaches wings, and flies off.

Am I the only one who figured that if he could get that car going fast enough to fly then he should've outrun Bond without working up a sweat?

I give it three stars.

Bond vs. the world's greatest assasin
2009-02-05 - Returning just a year after 1973's Live and Let Die, Roger Moore is back again in The Man With the Golden Gun. While working on another case dealing with solar energy, Bond is called to see M, who tells him Francisco Scaramanga, the world's deadliest assasin is gunning for him. Much is known about Scaramanga, but no one knows what he looks like so Bond is told to take a "vacation" until things have settled down. Can Bond find Scaramanga before the man with the golden gun finds him? In the hunt, Bond does stumble across a deeper plot, someone is trying to ransom off a piece of equipment that turns solar power into electricity, and Scaramanga could be involved. TMWTGG has taken its fair share of heat over the years, but I enjoyed it. The action is pretty good, two exciting chases, one on boat and the other an old-fashioned car chase. The locations key in on a few Far East locations, including Hong Kong and Thailand. The song is a little overdone, but that's not enough to ruin the movie. Not one of the best Bond movies, but certainly a good one.

In his second movie as 007, Roger Moore seems to have figured out the character more since Live and Let Die. The one-liners are there but not overused, and Bond is at his smooth best whether it be fighting baddies or seducing the ladies. Horror master Christopher Lee is Scaramanga, the world's deadliest assasin who is paid $1 million per hit. He's not the most outlandish villain, and in some ways as they discuss, he's similar to Bond. Britt Ekland plays Mary Goodnight, a fellow agent working with Bond as a liason of sorts while Maud Adams, in her first but not last Bond movie, is Andrea Anders, Scaramanga's mistress who thinks Bond can save her from Scaramanga. And as one of the more unique villains in the series, Herve Villechaize, pre-Fantasy Island, stars as Nick-Nack, Scaramanga's deadly little helper. Clifton James also reappears here in a completely unnecessary return as Sheriff JW Pepper from Live and Let Die.

The DVD offers the movie in its widescreen presentation that looks improved from previous releases. Special features include two separate commentary tracks. Not up there with Goldfinger as a classic movie in the series, but one that's better than people make it out to be. Give The Man With a Golden Gun a try!