Another Roger Moore Bond film, another occasion where I had to read up to remind myself what the plot was as the film is so forgettable: - Octopussy follows Bond investigating the smuggling of treasured artifacts, which leads him to exiled Princes, maniacal soviet generals and the titular Octopussy, the leader of a circus who is implicated with the smuggling. But when the world comes under threat of nuclear war, who's side these people are actually on begins to blur...
Like I said earlier, this film is so painfully generic it hurts. The plot is... passable. The action is... passable. The performances are... passable. The characters are... you guessed it - passable. The film doesn't dare do anything exciting or daring, it feels like when you do an exam in a subject you don't care about, so you do the bare minimum to get the 40% to pass it - that's what this film feels like. It's not even a bad film really, it's just so by the numbers that despite only watching it a few weeks ago I can't remember anything that happened in it. Oh, and you can tell Roger Moore had checked out of the role mentally and was dragged back by a huge paycheck, as they were worried about Sean Connery playing Bond in Never Say Never Again due a few months after this.
"We're on an all time highhhhhh" goes the theme song. Nope, no we are definitely not!
Like I said earlier, this film is so painfully generic it hurts. The plot is... passable. The action is... passable. The performances are... passable. The characters are... you guessed it - passable. The film doesn't dare do anything exciting or daring, it feels like when you do an exam in a subject you don't care about, so you do the bare minimum to get the 40% to pass it - that's what this film feels like. It's not even a bad film really, it's just so by the numbers that despite only watching it a few weeks ago I can't remember anything that happened in it. Oh, and you can tell Roger Moore had checked out of the role mentally and was dragged back by a huge paycheck, as they were worried about Sean Connery playing Bond in Never Say Never Again due a few months after this.
"We're on an all time highhhhhh" goes the theme song. Nope, no we are definitely not!
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