Octopussy
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Movie Reviews of Octopussy
Movie Review: A nifty little addition to the series
Summary: 4 Stars
Released in 1983, Roger Moore's sixth outing as James Bond is a sterling example of everything we've come to expect from the post-Connery 007 franchise: It's got plenty of cheesy one-liners, rollicking action sequence, plenty of fancy gadgets, a nifty little car chase, a series of pretty ladies, and a veritable gardening club of evil villains who've worked up a diabolical (if needlessly convoluted) scheme that involves everything from Faberge Eggs to nuclear devices to a traveling circus. Moore is his typically suave, smug, sarcastic self, wisecracking his way through the adventure with a certain amiable pomposity. He's no match for Sean Connery's lethal cool, but he certainly is a lot of fun. In a way, that's the best way to sum up Octopussy's appeal: It isn't a classic in the same sense as Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, and Dr. No, but it's still a fantastic action movie, and a fine addition to any Bond lover's collection.Movie Review: Would you like to have the king of Faberge's eggs: Romanov star?
Summary: 4 Stars
With the arrival of Raiders of the lost arc, the producers of this saga perceived the sweet smell of the times by then and decided in the thirteenth entry to recreate a funny, visually stunning movie hovered with exotic landscapes, plenty of action where even bond pays homage to Tarzan in the reminded human chase.
Kamal and Orlov are the main villains but the India is by far the great stage in this moving and delightful motion picture.
Bond on a train, surfing with a Mercedes on the rails, saving the world with clown's dress and finally eliminating the main villains in the reminded hair-rasing aerial sequence.
Astonishing visual effects and beautiful women will make the rest.
Movie Review: Tolerable. Barely Tolerable.
Summary: 3 Stars
When last we left our suave agent he was making out with one of the ugliest girls in Bond cinema history at the end of "For Your Eyes Only." Two years later and we got this, the first Bond movie I ever saw - and I saw it on HBO. Roger Moore returns to chase the Faberge' egg, also called the 'property of a lady' (the name of a later Bond movie that was never made and was supposed to star Timothy Dalton). In the opening scene, Bond tries his usual brand of hijinks and gets busted. Simultaneously, another agent gets the golden egg and flees East Germany. He is stabbed in the back - literally - by two German twin brothers (probably named Schmidt). He manages to get back to MI6 and give them the egg. Bond travels to the auction and notices who has come to buy the egg. In the process, he switches the two.
Two hours later - after a safari, a train chase, and a plane crash - Bond emerges unscathed as the hero along with Maud Adams, who couldn't possibly be in this movie because she died in "The Man With The Golden Gun." A number of things stick out about this movie.
First of all, the enunciating Louis Jourdan plays quite well as the lead villain even if his scenes do seem to often be way too far apart. His sharing with Octopussy (Adams' character's real name and the other memorable part of the movie) the claim that Bond 'likes dice, preferably loaded' was amusing with his over-enunciating. Jourdan's plan is to blow up a nuclear bomb on a military installation. Bond knows this and puts on a clown suit to enter the circus (no pun intended). He saves the day and then manages to get on Jourdan's plane and crash it without ever being behind the controls.
Another bright spot is tennis player Vijay Armitraj who, unfortunately, gets saw-bladed to death. Q is - as is almost always the case - immaculately played by Desmond Llewellyn.
"Octopussy" is worth a watch or two. Not great but in the third tier set of Bond movies.
Movie Review: Less is Moore
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Movie Review: 2.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
One of the sillier Bonds, Octopussy features (obviously) a ridiculous title, Bond in clown makeup, an unimpressive story and an over-the-hill Roger Moore; watch the previous entry, For Your Eyes Only, instead of taking a slice of this turkey.