Octopussy (1983)

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• Alexander D

  
  I actually found this one very thrilling (in fact, some of the series' biggest thrills were found in OCTOPUSSY). The acting done by Roger Moore still isn't all that bad, and, sure, it's got the occasional silly, risqué double entendre (well, duh; the title's… More
  I actually found this one very thrilling (in fact, some of the series' biggest thrills were found in OCTOPUSSY). The acting done by Roger Moore still isn't all that bad, and, sure, it's got the occasional silly, risqué double entendre (well, duh; the title's OCTOPUSSY after all), but doesn't every good Bond film?

• Jeff "

  
  Everytime I watch Octopussy, I hope that I'll enjoy it a bit better. Unfortunately, this is not the case. This is by far the worst Bond film since The Man With The Golden Gun. The film is supposed to be serious, but it's just very silly. Example: Bond swinging from a vine… More
  Everytime I watch Octopussy, I hope that I'll enjoy it a bit better. Unfortunately, this is not the case. This is by far the worst Bond film since The Man With The Golden Gun. The film is supposed to be serious, but it's just very silly. Example: Bond swinging from a vine and a recording of a tarzan yell plays. What a serious film this is. I want to like this film, and the plot is interesting, but the film makers went so overboard with putting so many tongue in cheek elements in the film, that ultimately, I was turned off this film. This was too much, even by Roger Moore James Bond era standards. A very intriguing plot, but very poor execution, the directors should have followed in the footsteps of For Your Eyes Only.

• Anthony L

  
  This film made me blush in front of my mum when all the ladies had not many clothes on and Bond saves the day dressed as a clown.

• Khris N

  
  Why do we love Roger Moore as 007? Not only can he look good while saving the world, he also got some of the best lines in the Bond movies, infuriating to the bad guys and near provocative to the ladies... you couldnt help but laugh and say "Only Bond can say that and get away… More
  Why do we love Roger Moore as 007? Not only can he look good while saving the world, he also got some of the best lines in the Bond movies, infuriating to the bad guys and near provocative to the ladies... you couldnt help but laugh and say "Only Bond can say that and get away with it..." The title of this movie is provocative enough... hehehe. But that doesnt take the shine of the thrills of the classic Bond series... the trademark action scenes and Bond style is evident by veteran director John Glen, responsible for 5 007 flicks and credited on 3 more. Guns, knives, beautiful women by the dozens and veteran International star Kabir Bedy as the ruthless henchman Gobina. Cars, planes, the entire movie is a classic Bond fest. Enjoy.

• Chris G

  
  Roger Moore got his AARP card in this one and it shows. The story takes 007 from looking into stolen Russian artwork to a plot to start World War III in a tale that is a little difficult to process at times. Maud Adams returns as the title character with Louis Jordan playing the main… More
  Roger Moore got his AARP card in this one and it shows. The story takes 007 from looking into stolen Russian artwork to a plot to start World War III in a tale that is a little difficult to process at times. Maud Adams returns as the title character with Louis Jordan playing the main baddie. It's an OK little adventure but tends to drag as the film goes on. The best bits are when Q's on screen and features the classic quote I'm stealing and posting here: Vijay: Is he still there? Q: You must be joking! Double-0 seven on an island populated exclusively by women? We won't see him till dawn!

• Phil H

  
  One of the worst Bond/Moore flicks in the series, the whole thing looks terrible with dodgy stunts, bad sets and unconvincing fights and acting. The girls are pretty good in this..especially the female army in the final battle and the whole idea of being set in India is a nice… More
  One of the worst Bond/Moore flicks in the series, the whole thing looks terrible with dodgy stunts, bad sets and unconvincing fights and acting. The girls are pretty good in this..especially the female army in the final battle and the whole idea of being set in India is a nice original location buts that it. Almost a Temple of Doom rip in places and with a similar big bearded baddie henchman....pretty lame.

• Cassandra M

  
  As a Bond fan for more, I must admit I love all Bond films. But OCTOPUSSY is the best of all them all; it's also my favorite movie. Roger Moore is in top form, John Glen's direction is excellent, the plot is complex and rich, and John Barry's music is wonderful.… More
  As a Bond fan for more, I must admit I love all Bond films. But OCTOPUSSY is the best of all them all; it's also my favorite movie. Roger Moore is in top form, John Glen's direction is excellent, the plot is complex and rich, and John Barry's music is wonderful. Moreover, Louis Jourdan is a beautiful baddie, Maud Adams is one of the most interesting leading ladies, and Steven Berkoff is amazingly frightening. The cinematography is very impressive, as is the production design by Peter Lamont. What more can I say? OCTOPUSSY is skillfully made and astonishingly thrilling from its breathtaking precredits sequence to the very end. Nobody does it better!!

• Pierluigi P

  
  masterful over the top excitement!!! <br/>Moore delivers one of his best potrayels of Fleming's super spy...

• Lenny M

  
  Great title, boring concept but I love Roger Moore.

• Curtis L

  
  I'm afraid I fell asleep, but what I saw met up with the bond par.

• Lafe F

  
  A convoluted and boring James Bond outing, which I always have struggled to get through. The title was a big silly show-stopper; I'm surprised the studio allowed it. I guffawed at Bond hiding in a circus with clown makeup on. I totally hated the villains in this film. The dreamy… More
  A convoluted and boring James Bond outing, which I always have struggled to get through. The title was a big silly show-stopper; I'm surprised the studio allowed it. I guffawed at Bond hiding in a circus with clown makeup on. I totally hated the villains in this film. The dreamy country of India couldn't save this dog of a movie. I'm glad I went to see "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" that day.

• Dean !

  
  Good fun, over the top Bond action.

• xGary X

  
  One of the better Roger Moores, the race against time to defuse a nuclear bomb being the stand-out sequence, but it's all very forgettable. An inoffensive popcorn movie.

• Aaron N

  
  Besides the fact that it is fun to say Octopussy, it is also a somewhat darker Bond film, and that's not a bad thing.

• Dean M

  
  Great dangerously adventure of Bond movie.

• Joey T

  
  The plot and characters hurt Octopussy, making it a weak entry in the Bond series.

• Cameron J

  
  Only someone like James Bond could be the father of Nadya Suleman's children. No, but seriously though, I am not about to say that title, because I know what they're going for, and I can't believe they let them get away with that title. Now, over twenty years of… More
  Only someone like James Bond could be the father of Nadya Suleman's children. No, but seriously though, I am not about to say that title, because I know what they're going for, and I can't believe they let them get away with that title. Now, over twenty years of desensitization later, "There Will Be Blood" is still slapped with an R rating, just because two people get knocked off the screen by big hunks of wood... and also because of, well, a merciless, gory sequence in which someone gets pummelled to a bloody pulp with a bowling pin, but that's all the way at the end of that two-and-a-half-hours-plus film. Oh, there will be blood all right; all the way at the end of the film, and yet not even they could escape the MPAA, and yet this film gets away with its title, and of all times, around the time they where coming up with PG-13 to make audiences less offended. Well, at least it's not as vulgar as the title to the second "Austin Powers". Jeez, just making fun of "The Spy Who Loved Me" - the long awaited return to form for the "Bond" films - alone is offensive enough. Well, in all honesty, it's not like the series kept up that form, because right after "The Spy Who Loved Me", they went right back to "just fine" "Bond" films; and sure this is one of them, but, like most any other "Bond" film, it's not above "just fine", because it too has its share of missteps. I know that I've been saying, "This film wastes no time" a lot lately, but really, this film wastes no time in showing you how cheesy it's going to be, not just with its title, but by having one of Bond's very first lines be in response to finding out his alias for his opening mission: "Toro; sounds like a load of 'bull'." Well, sure enough, right after that, you get silly over-the-top stunts and corny one-liners, all before they even start up the cheesy opening credits song; and if that's not enough, right after the opening credits, we get a tense, thrilling and shocking chase scene with... a clown! Of course, the opener not only shows you how cheesy this film is going to be, but that it's pretty much "Goldfinger 2", not just because it has the same type of small scope that's been absent in just about every preceeding "007" film, "except" for "Goldfinger", but because, just like "Goldfinger", the aforecited opening mission has "nothing" to do with the main plot point. Okay, really, outside of all that, this isn't following the formula of "Goldfinger", as I made it seem. However, I do rather wish that it would adopt the flaw of rushed scenes and little exposition, because even though those flaws are bothersome, at least they made the film move at a quicker pace, which isn't to say that this film is boring, because it's not really dull, but neither is it terribly captivating, and with the film moving paceless, you find yourself just drifting along, becoming rather unengaged from time to time. For the longest time around this point in the series after "The Spy Who Loved Me", we got an onslaught of just so terribly average "007" films that offered little uniqueness; and this film continues that streak. Still, it's hard to get tired of "Bond", for although this is yet another installment that offers hardly anything new, we always have plenty of default strengths in the series that are, of course, back for this installment. John Glen returns as director after "For Your Eyes Only", but with the scope being downsized, and while the cinematography is still pretty darn good, it's not quite broad enough for Glen to, well, "attempt" to replicates Lewis Gilbert's trademark great taste in location and action. Still, what wiggle room Glen does get for his style, he wiggles like an epileptic. Sure, the stunts aren't quite as sharply-done as they were in "For Your Eyes Only", but we still get our traditional delicious dose of slick choreography and staging to liven up any action situation, whether it be serious and tense, or fun and campy. "Diamonds Are Forever" didn't pull the worst campy tricks ever, but the point in this film where Bond daringly escapes an attack team in the woods by swinging over them on a vine while exclaiming a Tarzan howl tops any moment of cheesy, fun camp in "Diamonds Are Forever". Speaking of Bond, how 'bout that Roger Moore, eh? I don't know; what can I tell y'all that I didn't already say in all of the other reviews? I don't know, but what I do know is that Moore is back and as great as he's ever been as Bond, partially because he is given all of this cheesy material to really show that he make something as crazy as the aforementioned Tarzan Stunt, as well as a lot of cornball lines actually seem charming and cool, and if that doesn't tell you how great this guy is as Bond, then I don't know what will. Overall, it's not always cool or compelling, and like plenty of other Roger Moore "007" installments succeeding "The Spy Who Loved Me", little, if any uniqueness is brought to the table, but with John Glen returning to deliver on some actually fun and effective camp, both on and off the battlefield, and Roger Moore delivering one of his most charming portrayals of Bond, "Octo...-"Goldfinger 2" stands as just as enjoyable as any other "007" adventure. 2.5/5 - Fair

• Drew O

  
  Octopussy is easily the best that Roger Moore has to offer. It's exciting and funny, and it's the only Moore Bond film that is made precisely the way that he portrays the character. Moore's Bond is a clown and I can't take him seriously, and there is a scene in the… More
  Octopussy is easily the best that Roger Moore has to offer. It's exciting and funny, and it's the only Moore Bond film that is made precisely the way that he portrays the character. Moore's Bond is a clown and I can't take him seriously, and there is a scene in the movie where Bond is dressed as a clown and tries to tell everyone that a bomb is about to go off, and nobody takes him seriously! But really, that's not the only reason why this film is so enjoyable, and even without the clown scene it's just as fun. Octopussy is an extremely underrated Bond film and is one of the best.

• Burger S

  
  Another one of my least favorite Bond movies.

• Steven V

  
  <b>Octopussy</b> is the penultimate movie in the <i>Roger Moore</i> era of <i>James Bond</i> movies, and is the best of the actor's seven movies in the role. It is based on a short story by <i>Ian Fleming</i>, but the only… More
  <b>Octopussy</b> is the penultimate movie in the <i>Roger Moore</i> era of <i>James Bond</i> movies, and is the best of the actor's seven movies in the role. It is based on a short story by <i>Ian Fleming</i>, but the only similarity is the title. Nonetheless, it is still a very well-made, entertaining and action-packed entry, made all the more so by the fact that the action sequences and stunts were filmed for real without the benefit of computer generated technology. The movie is a real globe-trotting affair. It features at least three extraordinary action moments, including the awesome pre-credit plane sequence, a Tarzan-style jungle manhunt and the most jaw-dropping fight imaginable in which <i>James Bond</i> tackles a knife-wielding assassin on the outside of a plane flying at 10,000 feet. The theme tune <u>All-Time High</u> is a bitof a soppy power ballad and doesn't really belong in this movie. In terms of <i>James Bond</i> girls, they've unearthed a stunner in <i>Kristina Wayborn</i> as the unpredictable temptress <i>Magda</i>, and <i>Maud Adams</i> has the distinction of being the only actress to play two different <i>James Bond</i> girls in two different <i>James Bond</i> movies. <b>Octopussy</b> might be far-fetched and totally dissimilar to its source material, but it still a grandly entertaining affair.

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