Starring: Roger Moore, Geoffrey Keen, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Steven Berkoff, Desmond Llewelyn, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi, Robert Brown, Douglas Wilmer
Director: John Glen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rating: C
I went into this movie with a lot of doubt and hesitation. One of my biggest complaints about this series as a whole has been the depiction of women and I was rather concerned when I saw the title. I mean... Octopussy? Really? It's not the worst name for a woman that the Bond films have used, but it's pretty much up there. The fact that this is one of the more recent films - it's from the eighties! - makes this a more bothersome fact. I would hope that these movies would be getting less misogynistic as they go on, but alas.
Octopussy sees Bond (Moore) investigating the murder of another MI6 agent, 009 (Andy Bradford), and the replacement of a Fabergé egg with a fake. Bond travels the world in order to find 009's killer and... along the way meets a woman named Octopussy (Adams) and uncovers a plot to detonate a nuclear warhead on an American army base. Along the way there's also a ridiculous bit at the circus, because everyone wants to see Bond dressed up as a clown.
Honestly, I'm really not sure just what the hell happened in this movie. It was just.... so very, very weird. I'm not sure if I would say that I disliked it so much as it confused me and left me uninterested. It tries to be serious but at the same time fails to be so in a way that just doesn't really work. When it was on I wasn't really annoyed by it, but when it was over I wasn't really disappointed that it was over. Actually, I was more relieved, which is never really a good sign for a movie. James Bond, you can do better.
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