Every James Bond Finale Ranked

Once again, this ending - in which Bond (Roger Moore) duels the assassin Francisco Scarmanga (Christopher Lee) to the death in Scaramanga's funhouse - surmises the preceding film in the worst sort of way.

Like the rest of The Man with the Golden Gun, this finale is too small-scale, too low-stakes and suffers from a ton of ill-judged comedy.

Scaramanga's fun-house is visually striking for sure, but a duel to the death is too small for a Bond finale and given that all Scaramanga was trying to do was sell a solar power device to the highest bidder, there's not enough threat.

Worse still, the whole part with main Bond Girl Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) being so incompetent she literally destroys the entire base (at one point, she nearly kills Bond by accidentally pressing her rear-end against a laser's button) was painful to watch instead of funny and was nothing more than irritating, mean-spirited embarrassment comedy.

Worse still, this is followed up by one of the worst fight scenes in Bond history: a terrible showdown between Bond and Scaramanga's dwarf henchman Nick Nack (Herve Villechaize) on Scaramanga's boat, during which Nick Nack somehow keeps teleporting around the cabin.

All of this ensures that viewers will finish the film feeling thoroughly pissed off.