As I have mentioned in previous reviews, Roger Moore might be my least favorite version of James Bond though some of his 007 films have chalked up with the best of them. Octopussy would be included in that category. This is probably Moore's final enjoyable outing in the series but not his final outing total (I will cover that in my next review). This time Bond makes a unique journey to India with unique gadgets and a very suave Indian agent named BJ(?). The villain Kamal Kahn and his brutal turban-wearing sidekick make for entertaining and semi-believable threats to the 00 Agent. Plus, we have the return of actress Maud Adams who plays the central woman though not necessarily the bond girl of this title. As I've mentioned before, the Roger Moore Bond films have brought back returning characters for the sequels though in this case Octopussy brings back the actress (Maud Adams) versus the character she previously played in Man with the Golden Gun. I must add that her character is quite a welcomed change which added greatly to the main plot of this film. There is one very minor turn of events that I wasn't too fond of in Octopussy relating to a particular character's death though I won't spoil that for anyone and I can almost assure it hardly takes away from the overall film. Roger Moore could have gone out with a bang so to say had he ended his contract with Octopussy. This, however, was not the case as he went on to appear as 007 one more time in View To a Kill. On a final note, the theme song 'All Time High' is a good tune worthy of mention. Oh, just a bit of a trivia question: Did anyone notice the matching circus tent in Octopussy in which the character of JAWS might have "dropped on top of" during Moonraker before it? I really wonder about that...
Review of Octopussy
