The James Bond Rewatch: Current Movie - SPECTRE

[Veknoid_Outcast]

Watched The Man with the Golden Gun last night.

This is a perfectly decent Bond movie. In a parallel world with a tighter screenplay and more developed themes, it could be one of the best. There's an opportunity to show Bond his dark mirror image, but alas.

I love the opening of this movie. It sets the stakes and Scaramanga's personality perfectly. The movie never captures that high again, but it's fine throughout. The locales are exotic, the supporting players are game, Lee is delicious as Scaramanga, and the camera work is serviceable.

The biggest problem with the movie is that it's probably a 90 minute story stretched to 120 minutes. There's a bit of filler in the mid section, with lots of chases and escapes. So far the Moore era is defined by a lot of perfunctory action scenes.

6/10