Roger Moore proves that a person other than Sean Connery can play James Bond more than once. The Man with the Golden Gun (Christopher Lee) is the best assassin in the world commanding one million dollars a hit and he's set his sights on 007. The plot of Scaramanga's (Lee) admiration becomes wrapped with the films MacGuffin, a device that will make solar power cost effective.The plot is simpler than most Bond films. There really isn't an over the top world domination scene until the last ten minutes and even then it's not a huge scheme at all. The film is mainly wrapped around these two assassins who are the same, yet different. Both seem to show admiration to each other. Lee plays one of the most suave Bond villains to date. He doesn't really seem a bad bad guy at all. Maud Adams plays Lee's mistress who seems essential to the plot, yet ends up disposable in a role where she doesn't really do much. Britt Eckland plays good night, Bond's contact in China and provides some very poor comic relief as the dumb blonde. One mustn't forget the true villain in this film, the excessively evil Knick Knack played by Herve Villechaize. He's just a creepy guy throughout the film.
The film is like a scaled down Bond flick with a good story and excellent casting in the form of Christopher Lee as the title character. A real treat.
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