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Jan 18, 2014akirakato rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
This is the 9th installment of the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as James Bond. Released in 1974, it was loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel of same name. Bond is sent to destroy the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga---the "Man with the Golden Gun." The script was written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. Apparently both men were mixed up in confusion with Thailand and Japan because two Japanese sumo wrestlers appear without any reasonable reason. Bond tries to win the fight with one of the wrestlers to twist his "sumo thong" so that his squeezed balls could give him an unbearable pain. If you can reasonably appreciate the art of sumo wrestling, you certainly know that it is impossible to squeeze his balls by twisting his "sumo thong." Compared to the Bruce Lee movies, fighting men in the film are third-rated---if not fifth-rated. So the kung-fu fighting scenes are not so exciting. No wonder it is the fourth-lowest-grossing Bond film in the series. However, one of the amazing and exciting scenes is a car chase, in which Bond sees Scaramanga driving away and steals a showroom car to give chase. Coincidentally seated next is Sheriff J.W. Pepper, who apperaed in "Live and Let Die" as a parish sheriff in Louisiana and who basically plays as a comic relief, especially and memorably for his somewhat bigoted attitudes and his tendency to speak loudly about whatever is on his mind. Bond and Pepper follow Scaramanga in a car chase across Bangkok, which concludes when Scaramanga's car transforms into a plane, which flies him, Nick Nack (Scaramanga's sidekick) and Mary Goodnight (Bond's British assistant) to his private island. The film as a whole seems somewhat like a comedy rather than a serious blood-chilling spy movie.