This entry in the James Bond series is down in the cellar with
A VIEW TO A KILL and ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE.
The villain is boring, his only claim to fame being a third nipple
(which Bond calls "an interesting anatomical titbit") and his golden
gun (first owned by Oral Roberts), the climax is overly bland,
consisting of a shootout in a fun house, and the murderous henchmen
is played by Tattoo from "Fantasy Island," who gives Bond's knees a
real pummeling, I'll tell you that.What can you say about a James
Bond movie so uninspired that the writers had to bring back the
annoying Sheriff Pepper character from LIVE AND LET DIE for
comic relief?
Roger Moore makes his second appearance as 007 here,
heading off to Thailand to trace a golden bullet that arrived at Secret
Service headquarters with his name on it. Bond traces the bullet to its
manufacturer, then to its sender's lover (the same woman who played
Octopussy nine years later in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY... I mean
OCTOPUSSY) and finally to the sender himself, the man with the
golden nipple, who is out to kill Bond.
After that, there's the customary scene with Bond trapped in
the villain's exotic hidden lair and the villain shares his plans to take
over the world. In this case, the lair is an island off the coast of China
and the plans are only to convert the world to solar power. But those
environmentalists can get pretty violent for their cause. How many
newspaper headlines have we all read about people who have been
brutally murdered for not recycling aluminum cans? That of course
leads to the climax and then about fifteen minutes of anticlimax.
Copyright © 1996 Andrew Hicks