Octopussy is the thirteenth film in the James Bond series and was originally released in 1983. It features Roger Moore in his sixth and second to last appearance as James Bond and was directed by series regular John Glen. The plot of Octopussy (which retains little of Ian Fleming's short story) revolves around priceless Faberge eggs, jewel smuggling, female circus performers and a nutty Russian General with plans for a strike against the West. The smuggling operation has the potential to threaten the security of Western Europe and James Bond's investigation into it leads him to tangle with villain and Afghan prince Kamal Khan (Louis Jordan), hawkish Soviet General Orlov .  Read the complete review

Bond review #9 So I have been away. Off the radar. Deep, deep undercover. But now I am re surfaced and back to re-enter the world of Bond reviews. I now take on the challenge of Mr Moore's penultimate outing as Bond. Octopussy. Easy to dislike, even easier to loathe. Camp scale is approach maximum, yet Octopussy remains my Moore guilty pleasure. I would solidly put it in my top 3 Moore Bond films. Despite the more ridiculous scenes. If you told me to justify why... I cannot. It contains everything I despise of the Moore era; the clichéd villain, clichéd henchman, over confident Bond, over use of the one liners, too much slapstick humour. Yet it must contain enough ...  Read the complete review

Octopussy is again another solid Bond film that continued with the idea of keeping Bond more down to earth, even if there are several moments in this that are a little cartoonish. Again the acting is on form, with Moore back for his sixth Bond alongside Maud Adams as the strong headed Bond girl, Louis Jordan as the subtle, superb villain Kamal Kahn with Steven Berkoff on super theatrical form as renegade Russian, Genereal Orlov. Starting as an apparent smuggling operation, Bond is sent to an auction to follow the trail of a Fabergé egg. He steals the real egg, replacing it with a fake one that is sold to Kamal Kahn, an Afghan Prince who had to run away from his ...  Read the complete review

It is safe to say that Roger Moore over stayed his welcome as James Bond and this Bond outing is a perfect example of why he should have handed in his licence well before this film was made, Moore was a rather pudgy ageing forty something by the time this one was made and he was jsut not convincing in the role. When another British agent 009 is killed while on assignment undercover as a clown found in his possession is a Faberge egg, Bond is given the task of discovering exactly how this came to be in his possession and what significance it might have, attending an auction of a similar egg he is soon on the trail of a mysterious Indian industrialist called ...  Read the complete review

This is a film only review as shown on ITV last sunday afternoon. Octopussy is the 13th Bond film and the sixth and penultimate one to star Roger Moore. Moore would go on to make A view To a Kill but its clear by the time of this film that his time as 007 is getting towards an end. some people love the Roger Moore version of James Bond, I'm more in the ambigious state some of his early films are amongst the best and Live and Let Die is arguably the best Bond film to date but he also features in some of the worst excesses of the role. The Roger Moore Bond is a Bond with a huge comic element, its a version more obsessed with the smutty end of innuendo ...  Read the complete review