Another disastrous
outing for 007. The plot is confused, the villain is weak, Roger is getting
just too old, and why on earth would good old Q be sent to work in the
field. And more - the link between the Faberge egg and the atomic bomb
I just don't understand; the action is weak and over reliant upon comedy
value.
Curiously the producers
did manage to inject some Ian Fleming into the film though. He finds Kamak
Kahn cheating at backgammon - that is taken, along with some of the dialogue
straight from the pages of Moonraker, when Bond defeats Drax at cards and
exposes him as a cheat. And Octopussy tells Bond of the death of her father
- the story she tells is basically the plot of the short story Octopussy.
But these just don't
make up for the lack of thought put into the film. Definitely one to miss
unless you are a hard-core Bond fan.
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Roger
Moore
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James
Bond
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Maud
Adams
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Octopussy
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Louis
Jourdan
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Kamal
Khan
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Kristina
Wayborn
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Magda
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Kabir
Bedi
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Gobinda
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Steven
Berkoff
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General
Orlov
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Walter
Gotell
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General
Gogol
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Robert
Brown
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Lois
Maxwell
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Miss
Moneypenny
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Desmond
Llewelyn
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Q
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Director
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John
Glen
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Screenplay
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George
MacDonald Fraser
Richard Maibaum
Michael G. Wilson
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