Octopussy (1983)

• Year: 1983
• Released: 10 Jun 1983
• Country: United Kingdom
• Adwords: 2 wins & 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086034/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/James_Bond_Octopussy
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/octopussy
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Russian, German, Spanish, Hindi
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Runtime: 131 min
• Writer: George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson
• Director: John Glen
• Cast: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan
• Keywords: circus, atomic bomb, kgb, crocodile, hot air balloon,

	6.5/10
	63/100

Octopussy Storyline

When Agent 009 turns up dead at the British Embassy in East Berlin holding a Russian Fabergé egg, 007 is called in to investigate. He soon finds out that the egg is being sought by a collector named Kamal Khan, who is in league with a psychopathic Soviet General, Orlov, who is hell-bent on Soviet domination despite reprimands from his superiors. Orlov’s plan involves smuggling an atomic bomb onto a U.S. Air Force Base in West Germany, in the hopes of crippling the country and leaving it an easy target for Soviet conquest. Bond’s investigation of Khan leads him to India, where he meets a mysterious woman named “Octopussy”, who is connected to Khan. The bomb is smuggled aboard a circus train, and one of the men helping Kamal and Orlov is the man responsible for killing 009. Bond must race against time to stop the bomb from exploding and killing thousands, then running down Kamal Khan before he escapes.

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Octopussy Movie Reviews

Sorry, I think this is the weakest of the Roger Moore Bond movies

I have no intention of insulting anybody who likes this film, but I disliked this film. The Bond series may have a couple of bad eggs as well as some golden treasures, and I am sorry to say I consider Octopussy one of the bad eggs.

First off, it starts off brilliantly with a great opening sequence, while the locations and cinematography are suitably exotic. Roger Moore is decent as James Bond, apart from some very bizarre moments which I will be describing later, he seems to have toned down a bit, and Steven Berkoff and Louis Jourdan make for a pair of intriguing villains. Oh and Octopussy is sexy.

However, plot wise it is probably the most careless in the series. The plot meanders all over the place and lacks focus, complete with some truly bizarre scenes such as Bond in a clown suit(???) and the Tarzan yell in the jungle was for me unintentionally hilarious. The script is also paper-thin save for a few fun one-liners and the direction is disappointingly flat. The film is also too long and is fairly pedestrian, and I admit I have a love/hate relationship with All Time High. Personally I think the one sung by Madonna is the worst Bond song, but this one is for me one of the least melodious or memorable.

All in all, pretty disappointing and although a lot will disagree I do consider this the weakest Roger Moore Bond movie. 4/10 Bethany Cox

No Stopping 007

With his usual sophisticated aplomb Roger Moore saunters right through another way out adventure as 007. A man with a license to kill, James Bond should have given serious consideration to shooting the writers of this film.

Granted that Bond films are not to be taken seriously, I found Octopussy to be completely ridiculous. I’m still not quite understanding the connection between some Russian general played by Steven Berkoff stealing a nuclear weapon and plotting to set off an explosion inside a US Air Force Base and the stolen Romanov Faberge eggs that another agent died investigating.

But Octopussy has the usual Bond gadgets and Maud Adams in the title role as one beautiful Bond girl. The location cinematography, especially in India where the biggest portion of the film takes place is located is stunning. Then again I’ve always considered India, a visually stunning country from all the pictures I’ve seen of it.

Octopussy also has Rita Coolidge singing above the titles An All Time High. Why that was not nominated for Best Song of 1983 totally baffles me.

Louis Jourdan plays Bond’s adversary, a millionaire of mysterious origins from the mysterious east. The final scene with Moore after Jourdan in the final chase borders on the ridiculous.

I won’t say more, but literally it can be said that on land, water, and midair there was no stopping James Bond in Octopussy.

An underrated treat

Roger Moore’s penultimate outing as Bond is, like A VIEW TO A KILL, a surprisingly enjoyable treat. By this stage, Moore’s Bond was a long way from the cold, ruthless killer devised by Fleming; he was an outlandish superhero, engaging in all manner of supposedly humorous, superhuman feats and dealing with every situation with his trademark quip-and-twinkle. As such, many fans feel, with good reason, that Moore’s later outings are silly, even unwatchable in places. They are silly – but as a piece of ’80s comic cinema, I can’t help but feel this film works a treat.

The plot takes in the usual globetrotting antics as it sees Bond on the trail of a fake Faberge egg. Eventually, such diverse plot elements as an Indian island stronghold populated by a female mastermind, a nuclear bomb on a train and a circus acting as a cover for a Soviet psychopath are woven together, none of them making the least bit of sense. Oddly, though, the silly action scenes work, whether it’s a ludicrous rickshaw chase or Bond finding himself pursued by elephant-riding henchmen. The stunts are spectacular, the cheesy gags endlessly dated (although some of them, like the bit with the bed of nails, still raised a chuckle) and the racism casual. I especially enjoyed the lengthy set-piece aboard the train, as a stuntman gets put through his paces (and then some), followed up by the clichéd but amusing against-the-clock ticking time-bomb climax.

Moore sleepwalks through his part but the supporting cast is fairly varied. Steven Berkoff is extremely hammy as the Russian villain, Louis Jourdan smarmy as the supposed Indian mastermind. Kristina Wayborn is an arresting but rather wooden love interest, but Maud Adams is good value as the titular character. I particularly enjoyed Kabir Bedi’s tough henchman, recalling the good old days of Oddjob and the like. George MacDonald Fraser’s screenplay can be fairly witty in places and delivers at least one classic Bond set piece – the bit with the plane right at the end. With John Glen’s assured direction and lots of outrageous bits (with the buzzsaw-on-a-string recalling the glory days of MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE), this is a big step up from the somewhat dreary FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.