Review of Octopussy (1983) by Stuart K — 19 Nov 2009
The title song of this James Bond film is 'All Time High', but alot of people call it an All Time Low for Bond. They're quite wrong. The 13th Bond film could have been an unlucky one, plus they were up against rival Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), but the official series was able to hold it's own against the competition.
This has James Bond (Roger Moore), travelling to India and Germany to uncover a jewellry smuggling scam, led by Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan), and General Orlov (Steven Berkoff), using a circus owned by the mysterious Octopussy (Maud Adams), as a cover for an atomic bomb to go off at a US Army base.
It's the campest Bond film, and it's a little different, and the bits in India have a very colonial attitude to them!! :O But, it makes for good entertainment, for reference, this is the one with the microlite coming out of the horses arse in the horse box, and the Rickshaw chase.
It's an underrated Bond film, give it a chance!! :P.
This review of Octopussy (1983) was written by Stuart K on 19 Nov 2009.
Octopussy has generally received mixed reviews.
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