Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Scaramanga

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Directed by Guy Hamilton the 9th film in the series stars Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland and Maud Adams. Bond travels to the far East to take on an assassin who views himself as the ultimate hit man.

The plot of this film has little in common with the novel it shares a name with and is fairly average but passable. There is some mileage to the premise of Bond facing off against his opposite and equal but this is not really capitalised on. While the previous film was heavily influenced by blaxploitation this film has an influence of kung fu films but manages to do so without the racist overtones of the previous film.


3/5

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