The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) Bond is given a chance to again prove his worth as a member of the 00 section following the assassination attempt. M sends Bond to Jamaica and gives him the seemingly impossible mission of killing Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga, a Cuban assassin who is believed to have killed several British secret agents. Scaramanga is known as "The Man with the Golden Gun" because his weapon of choice is a gold-plated Colt .45 revolver, which fires silver-jacketed solid-gold bullets. Bond locates Scaramanga in a Jamaican bordello and manages to become his temporary personal assistant under the name "Mark Hazard". He learns that
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) Ian Freer of "Empire" found the film "an entertaining 007 adventure, something that tonally, if not qualitatively, could happily sit within the Connery era." "IGN" chose "The Man with the Golden Gun" as the worst Bond film, claiming it "has a great concept ... but the execution is sloppy and silly", and "Entertainment Weekly" chose it as the fourth worst, saying that the "plot is almost as puny as the sidekick". On the other hand, Norman Wilner of MSN chose it as the tenth best, with much praise for Christopher Lee's performance. Some critics saw the film as uninspired, tired