Octopussy

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 andthe 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.