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Actor: Maude Adams, Roger Moore
DVD: Region Code 1
Studio: Fox/MGM

Movie Reviews of Octopussy (James Bond) [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: 9 years later and I finally understand...
Summary: 2 Stars

Even when I was just discovering the Bond movies in 2000, I had never found Octopussy to be even remotely interesting, due to the fact that it had a ridiculous plot. And more importantly, it was my first Bond movie. I watched it 3 times and got extremely bored towards the end.

Octopussy, as redundant and annoying as its title, runs 133 minutes, 45 of which consist of plot setting up. As for the "plot", it completely rips off Indiana Jones. The location in India is pretty fascinating, but that's where the fascination stops. Moore plays a sweaty and tired Bond here, and toward the end, we're left rolling our eyes and scratching our heads. As for the ending showdown on the plane... ridiculous and over the top. There IS a reason For Your Eyes Only's opening scene was ridiculous, but here it just is never pulled off.

What gives this 2 stars and not one is the Indian location and the music score. Absolutely fantastic, this may have some of the best music in 007 history, and yes I even liked the opening theme a lot. But otherwise, unless you are planning on owning all of the ultimate editions, buy it for the special features, and that only. Not the stinker that is Octopussy.

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Summary of Octopussy (James Bond) [Blu-ray]

Roger Moore was nearing the end of his reign as James Bond when he made Octopussy, and he looks a little worn out. But the movie itself infuses some new blood into the old franchise, with a frisky pace and a pair of sturdy villains. Maud Adams--who'd also been in the Bond outing The Man with the Golden Gun--plays the improbably named Octopussy, while old smoothie Louis Jourdan is her crafty partner in crime. There's an island populated only by women, plus a fantastic sequence with a hand-to-hand fight that happens on a plane--and on top of a plane. The film even has an extra emotional punch, since this time out 007 is not only following the orders of Her Majesty's Secret Service, but he is also exacting a personal revenge: a fellow double-0 agent has been killed. Two Bond films were actually released in 1983 within a few months of each other, as Octopussy was followed by Sean Connery's comeback in Never Say Never Again. The success of both pictures proved that there was still plenty of mileage left in the old license to kill, though Moore had one more workout--A View to a Kill--before hanging it up. And that title? The franchise had already used up the titles to Ian Fleming's novels, so Octopussy was taken from a lesser-known Fleming short story. --Robert Horton