Roger Moore's second James Bond adventure unfortunately has nothing on his first one. The story just doesn't hold up to
Live and Let Die, despite the villain in this being the great Christopher Lee, which makes it doubly sad. What a waste of talent.
Lee plays Scaramanga, a contract killer, aided by his dwarf Nick Nack (!). The female (of course) assistant Bond has at his side is called Goodnight (*eye-roll*). And as if that weren't comic relief enough, JW Pepper, the dorky small town sheriff from the previous film, is forced on us again. He is still not very funny.
The
touristic adventure takes us to Asia again - this time to Hong Kong and Bangkok, where Scaramanga works for one Hai Fat. And yes, we get Asian martial arts - an entire school of martial arts students. They get knocked out by two teenage girls in school uniforms. And with that we have probably covered every cliche conceivable about the Asian continent, no?
Oh yes, there is also a flying car.
Scaramanga invests in solar energy, so he's not really
that bad a guy, is he?
4/10
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