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Scores of past movies (10 being the best possible James Bond movie)

Dr No: 7.5
From Russia With Love: 9
Goldfinger: 10
Thunderball: 9
You Only Live Twice: 6
On Her Majesty's Secret Service: 9.5
Diamonds are Forever: 4
Live and Let Die: 9

Tonight I watched:

The Man With the Golden Gun

This movie was... interesting to say the least. It had a lot of good going for it like Christopher Lee as Scaramenga, Roger Moore delivering yet another good performance as Bond, and Herv Jean-Pierre Villechaize as Nick-Nack (a good homage to Oddjob from Goldfinger).

It also had some weird campy stuff in it. The kung fu scene was absolutely ridiculous where Bond and 2 school girls take on a whole school of ninjas, the scenes with the sheriff from Live and Let Die were also really ridiculous too.

This movie didn't have the same feel that every other previous Bond movie did. It felt like the directors were going for a straight up action film made for the US audience. There is little to no gadgetry, the cars are American muscle cars, the "Enter the Dragonish" scenes with kung-fu. It just felt like you could take the James Bond title off and it would be a straight up Roger Moore action movie.

I liked the premise of the story and how Bond and Scaramenga kind of played a cat and mouse game. The solar energy stuff was ridiculous, and I thought it would have been better off as just a straight up story of Bond going after Scaramenga because he wants him dead.

Final score: 7.5/10