Octopussy (1983)
Genre: Action / Adventure
Duration: 131 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / United States
Directed by: John Glen
Stars: Roger Moore, Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan
IMDb score:
6,5 (115.371)
Releasedate: 5 June 1983
Octopussy plot
"James Bond's all time high."
An insane Russian general stole jewels from the Kremlin and replaced them with counterfeits. Secret agent 009 is found dead with a fake Fabergé egg. He had stolen this from the spy who calls herself Octopussy. Secret agent 007, James Bond, must find out why a Russian is robbing the Kremlin.
Actors and actresses
James Bond
Octopussy
Kamal Khan
Magda
Gobinda
Orlov
Twin One
Twin Two
Reviews & comments
Lennert
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- 2402 messages
- 1398 votes
Hmmm, the recording of For Your Eyes Only failed, in that case move on to the exceptionally corny Octopussy. Good movie? No, terrible even, but there is a certain charm in it that still holds up. The bad guys are over the top, Bond assaults a few ladies again and Q gives some nice gadgets again; however, it is the very corny humor that makes the film too over the top even for a Bond story. How about Bond sliding down stairs with a machine gun or a snake charmer playing the Bond tune?
Also a nice example of British colonialism and therefore a lot of racist stereotypes when it comes to people from India. Somehow again the charm of Bond films, today they would hardly get away with it. Long live the 80s shall we say?
Octopussy is very entertaining, but is actually too bad for words. Another Roger Moore film and then we finally switch to a slightly rawer version, I have Timothy Dalton just a little higher.
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Ummmagummma
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- 132 messages
- 114 votes
Wonderful eighties Bond pastiche, where Roger Moore is actually a bit too old to come across as really dynamic. The corniness sometimes goes awry (for example the Tarzan cry, already mentioned more than once), but for its time a pretty balanced Bond film.
The plot rattles of course on all sides, complicated stuff with Fabergé eggs combined with a Russian atomic bomb that has to explode in a circus to undermine NATO, or something but that's not what the Bond films are about.
Tough glamor spies, bad villains and beautiful women, who are also fairly "empowered" in this film, the biggest female supporting roles do not cause crooked toes, on the contrary, an army of women even gives the bad guys nice cotton, even if the ladies had could do with a little more fighting training.
Entertaining, it doesn't get any further, and it doesn't have to.
There are worse Bond movies than this one.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 5742 messages
- 2289 votes
I actually only remembered this 007 because of two things: the somehow haunting scene with the sad clown on the run in the woods (before horror clowns or It) and the scene where Bond comes down the balustrade of the spiral staircase (proving he has saved the most dangerous enemy for last). When reviewed, this turns out to be much less of a full-blooded thriller than an action comedy, as befits Roger Moore, but once I've adjusted myself to that, there's not much wrong with it: a witty opening scene followed by a fine title song and then that clown who always remembered, a fairly strong villain with an excellent creepy right hand, a great colorful and exotic setting, beautiful photography (the bazar and the palace) and a brisk pace. Of course also some cringe-inducing elements (especially those acrobatic girls in bikinis who take out a troop of gunmen, but also the foam at the mouth of Steven Berkoff: "Follow that car!"), but hey, that belongs to this time. I realize now that I'm more interested in the rollercoaster of the Pierce Brosnan era than in the serious aggravation and psychology and infatuation of Daniel Craig, and the sugary sweet fondant of Octopussy and the stale but elegant style of Roger Moore actually fits well with that.
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