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This was Roger More's second to last film as Double O07. When Double 007 fellow friend and college 009 crashed through the embassy windo, with a percious Faberge egg inhis hand thendies from knife burried deep inhis back. Once again its up too James Bond/Roooger More to pick up his gun and get back in the saddle again. When a Russian military advisor plans to smuggle jewels out sexy and Beautiful mysterious women Otopuss y gets moree bargoned for wh herso called partner in league with the Russian traitor double cross her. Know its up to James Bond to recover the jewels atomatic bomb goes offwithiless than 6 hours to desarmed. Can james bond save the millitary voice and his current love sexy and beautiful Octopussy who falls in love with him despite the fact that she calls him quote "A paid assian compared to what I am". Has bond meet his match or can his save the day and the girl once again find out in this thrillin conclusion to this 1983 master clasic about love, greedy and the battle between good and evil. If you like this I alsor recoomend these other Roger more bond films Live and Let Die, Moonmaker, A view for A kill, and the Spy who loved me ( sorry for the bad spelling the darn program is deleting letters when I type in front of then I will redit this on a word document when I get home and resumbit the revised copy.
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What can I say, its James Bond 007!
I am glad they released these separate for us who can not dump a large sum for the whole set at once!
....this review will self destruct in 30 seconds
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wrong show!
...never mind
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Octopussy is easily one of Roger Moore's better Bond films. Though not as big as "Spy Who Loved Me", or as tight as "For Your Eyes Only", this certainly has a lot more going for it than the overblown "Moonraker", and the lesser movies "Live and Let Die", "Man With The Golden Gun", and "View to a Kill". Octopussy begins with one of the more exciting pre-credits scene in a Bond film, and continues with a nice story and memorable characters and more, but original, great Bond action.
The story revolves around a crazy Russian general, who's thirst for conquest of Europe goes to such great lenghts to eventually set a bomb to explode at a circus in Germany where very important officials will be attending. The movie's main villain - Kamal Khan - works for this Russian, and Bond spends all his time and efforts taking him down, along with his nasty Indian henchman who always seems to be there ready for a fight. Kamal also works for a woman named Octopussy (who Bond wins over no less), but puts her in harms way eventually, adding to the conflict.
Kamal is a fine villain in this film. Cold and ruthless at times, he can stand up to par with any other villain of the Bond franchise, but I suppose he does not have the classic feel. His henchman makes his presence known throughout the film as well, and fights Bond in two of the most exciting scenes in the film - ontop of a moving train and airplane. The two Bond girls in the film actually have in-depth charcater, and don't come off as ditsy dummies. The rest of the cast is likeable too.
The action is plentiful and stisfying. In addition to the incredible train and airplane fights, there are chases and even a hunt for Bond in the jungle - led by Kamal and his men. The locations still remain original, specifically the large portion of the movie setting in India. There are also scenes in Germany and a nice scene at Russian headquarters.
Ocopussy is easily the most underrated of the Bond films. The fact that Bond is dressed in a clown, swings through the jungle yelling like Tarzan, or even the name of the title for this film should not be enough to discourage it. The story is solid, as are the charcaters and action.
Acting - 4
Action - 4.5
Characters - 4.5
Story - 4
Overall - 4.5
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There are parts of this movie that are really rather good. Sharply directed, entertaining and in keeping with all the best things about James Bond movies. In an early scene Steven berkoff and Walter Gotell are very good as two feuding Russian Generals, and Louis Jourdan is superb as the main villian of the piece.
However, sadly in Roger Moore's 6th outing as Bond the majority of the film is a dissappointment. The jokiness that had started to occur in Moore's later Bond movies reaches its nadir here with the dreadful Taxi chase featuring former Tennis star Vijay Amritraj. This really is awful and could just have easily been transplanted from a Carry On movie or a Pink Panther movie. In that context it might have been funny but here its awful.
This jokiness is certainly not Roger Moore's fault, who ten years earlier was a fine Bond, but at 55 when this was filmed he really was too old for the part. 'The Spy Who Loved Me' should of been his last Bond movie.
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Roger Moore's stint as James Bond lasted a whopping 12 years from 1973 to 1985, which is the longest term for any actor in the Bond role (not including Sean Connery's one-shot unofficial return in "Never Say Never Again"). Moore started as Bond when he was 45 years old and ended when he was 57. The seven films he did are as follows:
LIVE AND LET DIE (1973)
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974)
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977)
MOONRAKER (1979)
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981)
OCTOPUSSY (1983)
A VIEW TO A KILL (1985)
All seven films were hugely popular at the box office, which explains why they kept making 'em every two years.
In the summer of 2003 I unbiasedly saw most of the Bond films (the ones I didn't see I was already well familiar with, like DR. NO and GOLDFINGER). I fully realize that many Bond fans look down on Moore's stint, no doubt because there was too much camp in most of his films, but I ultimately concluded that the Moore Bond pictures are the most consistently entertaining. In fact, there's not a dud in the bunch; even the heavily maligned MOONRAKER is great! The Connery films were more serious (always a good thing), with the exception of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, and Sean is certainly the quintessential Bond figure, but I gotta admit that -- for some strange reason -- I ENJOY Roger Moore's stint as Bond more than any of the others.
Some argue that by the time of OCTOPUSSY Moore was too "long in the tooth," but I simply don't see that. He may have been 55 years old when OCTOPUSSY was released and 57 when A VIEW TO A KILL came out, but it didn't matter. Moore ALWAYS looked perfectly convincing as James Bond, whatever his age.
As to the story, is it really necessary to go into detail about the plot of OCTOPUSSY? Every Bond film features a main villain and a few accomplices/subordinates who want to cause great havoc; Bond defies death at every turn and runs into numerous beautiful women as he moves from one exotic locale to another trying to figure out the villains' scheme and stop it.
OCTOPUSSY was filmed on location in India, East Germany & England; these locations are, needless to say, fabulous. We also get ciruses, clowns, trains, mad Russian militarists and bombs-about-to-explode.
One thing that distinguishes OCTOPUSSY is that it has more of an Indiana Jones appeal than any other film in the series, which stands to reason since Indiana Jones was hugely popular at the time (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK came out two years earlier in 1981 and THE TEMPLE OF DOOM came out one year after OCTOPUSSY in 1984). Anyway, this is a good thing.
The "Bond women" featured in OCTOPUSSY are Sweden's own Maud Adams and Kristina Wayborn. I personally never found Maud very appealing, and although Kristina certainly has an exotic charm, she never did anything for me either. I prefer more curvy women; women with more meat on their bones (like in THUNDERBALL, which is the BEST Bond film as far as beautiful women goes). Regardless, I'm sure there are a lot of guys out there who find Adams and Wayborn incredibly ravishing. In any event, there are numerous other women in the film like Midge, the short brunette with full hair, and the East Indian beauty that aids Bond during the opening teaser.
FINAL ANALYSIS: You either like James Bond films or you don't. You either like Roger Moore as James Bond or you don't. Although, most of the time, their plots will make your head spin, they're nothing deep. You won't derive any nuggets of wisdom from these films. They're essentially mindless adventure flicks highlighted by exotic locales and beautiful women whose express purpose is to entertain, not enlighten. It's escapist fantasy/adventure pure and simple.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is usually cited as the best Moore-era Bond picture, and I would agree with this, but OCTOPUSSY ranks pretty high as well (although I generally rate them all about equally). As with most of Moore's Bond films, OCTOPUSSY strongly flirts with camp here and there, but it's essentially a serious story. It has a bit of an Indiana Jones flare and features India, Germany, scheming Russian militarists, gorgeous women, incredible action sequences, ciruses, clowns, bombs and trains gallore. What moore could you want in a Bond picture? That's WHY it rates 5/5 Stars IMHO.
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