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Rating: Summary: Reliable as ever Review: Released in 1983 , the world was about to witness something never seen before or since, two Bond films relesed in space of a few months . Octopussy, the ofifcial Albert R. Broccoli produced Bond with Roger Moore and Never Say Never Again, the unofficial Kevin McClory produced Bond with Sean Connery making a comeback. But was Octopussy that more than doubled Never Say Never Again at the box-office. Octopussy comes from a short story written by Ian Fleminga and has our hero on the trail of the leader of an international smugglers ring and an exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan) who forms an alliance with a power crazed Russian General. The film has plenty of action scenes which include a fight on top af a train and a plane. Octopussy is heart racing Bond as ever.
Rating: Summary: Not horrible, but¿ Review: I don't think this movie is as good as people say it is. Moore is getting to be too old to look the part, and though Maud Adams is beautiful, her role is too small and stupid. She had a much better part in The Man With the Golden Gun. What can I say about that tarzan yell?
Rating: Summary: Octopussy Review: Moore looks a bit worn out in 1983's Octopussy.The villains are the exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan and the renegade Russian General Orlov.They are both great.Maud Adams(who was also in The Man with the Golden Gun) does a great job as the title role.Moore's acting is good.The stunt scenes and the action are spectacular.Some of the action includes two car chases, a chase through the jungle, a battle on a train, a fight at Octopussy's Floating Palace, and a hand-to-hand combat duel in and on top of a plane.The settings were India and Germany.The settings in India were beautiful.Octopussy's Floating Palace and Kamal Khan's Monsoon Palace were wonderful too.The plot is that General Orlov will plant a bomb in the U.S. Air Force Base in West Germany and Octopussy's traveling circus will be used as a cover.Rita Coolidge's All Time High was good as was the score.This was Moore's fourth best film, beaten by A View To a Kill, Live and Let Die, and The Spy who Loved Me.
Rating: Summary: Excellent Review: Though Moore seems a bit worn out, the movie was still great.Maud Adams and Louis Jordan are great in their roles as Octopussy and Kamal Khan.Q returns to give Bond some great gadgets as ususal. Though The Spy who Loved Me is the best Roger Moore film, Octopussy comes pretty darn close to beating it.
Rating: Summary: Very good Roger Moore Review: Though The Spy who Loved Me was better, Octopussy was one of Moore's best and one of the best of the series too.Don't miss this.
Rating: Summary: Great Review: Octopussy is Moore's best film.It has everything from great action to settings.
Rating: Summary: A classic Review: After the Moore's breakthrough razzle dazzle movie The Spy who Loved Me set a strong, new following for the next Moore films, the fantastic and eccentric Moonraker, and the all action-intrigue For Your Eyes Only comes Octopussy.With a pair of sturdy villains, great settings, and spectacular stunts and action, Octopussy definitley Moore's third best film behind The Spy who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only.Octopussy boasts some of the best action in the entire series.It has two car chases,(one is through the streets of India), a fight at Octopussy's Floating Palace, a fight at Kamal Khan's Monsoon Palace, and entertaining chase through the jungle, a battle in, on top of, and off a train, and a thrilling confrontation in which OO7 fights Kamal's henchman Gobinda in and on top of a plane.
Rating: Summary: OO7 is great Review: After the breakthrough with The Spy who Loved Me which set a strong new following for the next Moore films,the out of this world Moonraker and the high action-intrigue For Your Eyes Only comes 1983's Octopussy.With two su villains and some excellent settings, Octopussy is one of Moore's best films.The chases and the stunts were great and Maud Adams was terrific as Octopussy.
Rating: Summary: Great fun Review: As Roger Moore was nearing the end of his reign as agent OO7, Octopussy came out.With a pair of great villains and some spactacular stunt scenes, Octopussy proved that Roger Moore wasn't done yet. The settings in India and Germany were very good.What Octopussy also had was some interesting but not to well-known henchmen such as Gobinda who is Kamal Khan's Oddjob-like strongman and twin knife throwers who happen to be brothers and one of them kills OO9.
Rating: Summary: Octopussy Review: In Roger Moore's second to last OO7 movie Bond is up against Kamal Khan, a Afghanistan prince.The plot concerns the plans of the renegade Russian General Orlov.He plans to plant an atomic bomb in the U.S. Air Force base in Germany as the first step for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe with help from Kamal Khan.After evading a heat sinking missile while flying a jet in the pre-title sequence, OO7 finds that a fellow agent,OO9,has been killed.Bond travels to India on the trail of the priceless Faberge egg.He beats Kamal Khan in gambling and watches as Gobinda,Khan's Oddjob-like goon, crushes a pair of dice to dust.He then is pursued by Kamal's henchmen in an entertaining chase through the streets of India.Bond then visits Q and gets some interesting gadgets.OO7 has the real Faberge egg and Khan has the fake.One of Khan's henchmen steals the egg and Bond is taken to the Monsoon Palace were Kamal lives.He plants a listening device in the fake egg and sneaks around listening to General Orlov and Kamal Khan discuss matters.When they realize that one of the eggs they have is a fake,General Orlov crushes it .The tiny listening device is noticed by Kamal Khan and the next day when they go for a hunt Bond is pursued through the jungle were he encounters spiders, snakes, and a man-eating tiger.He escapes.Bond visits Octopussy,Kamal Khan's partner in crime at the Floating Palace,an island only populated by women.After staying for a little while and defeating Kamal's henchmen there, he travels to the train station and hops on General Orlov's train with Octopussy's traveling circus.He kills Orlov and one of the circuses twin knife throwers.He fights the other knife thrower and avenges the death of OO9 by killing him.He then escapes after a car chase.He gets to the circus in Germany at the U.S. Air Force base and in a suspenseful situation,defuses an atomic bomb hidden in the cannon for the human cannonball.He then travels back to India with Q in a hot air balloon and along with Octopussy's henchwoman,takes over the Monsoon Palace.However,Octopussy is taken away by Kamal Khan and Gobinda in an airplane.Bond battles Gobinda in hand-to-hand combat in and on top of the plane.Gobinda and Kamal Khan die,but Bond and Octopussy survive after the plane crashes.
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