James Bond 007 – Octopussy (1983)

James Bond 007 – Octopussy: Directed by John Glen. With Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn. A fake Fabergé egg, and a fellow Agent’s death, lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.

“I first saw this in the early 90s on a vhs.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRevisited it recently.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is the thirteenth in the Bond series and the sixth to star Roger Moore as James Bond.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAfter the death of 009, Bond is assigned the task of following a general who is stealing jewels and relics from the Soviet government. The mission leads Bond to cross paths with an exiled prince n his associate, Octopussy and later Bond discovers a plot involving nuclear weapon.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film has one of the best pre credits scene of an aerial chase.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor a change, Bond does a Tarzan stunt, dons a gorilla outfit n also of a clown.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere is a lovely train sequence and a lol scene of that of a car being run on tracks by Bond.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt has a jungle chase sequence involving elephants, tiger, leeches, spiders n crocodiles.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut the best is the climactic aeroplane sequence which is tension filled n well shot.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBondu0026#39;s sliding on the rail of stairs n shooting villains is epic and he riding a horse n catching up an aeroplane is amazing. Both the scenes are copied by the Bollywood spy film Ek Tha Tiger but done in a good way by Salman Khan.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film has some very weak villains but a mighty strong n loyal henchman known as Gobinda played by an Indian actor Kabir Bedi.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis time Bond faces knife throwing assassins, a deluded General Orlov, an exiled prince Khan, a strong henchman Gobinda with an intimidating glare that causes Bond to lose his appetite, lots of thugs, guards, hunters, Colonel Luis Toro n his soldiers n a very ruthless contract killer with a yo-yo saw.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis time Bond gets to cool off with a sultry Hispanic female agent played by Tina Hudson, another hottie Kristina Wayborn and once again Maud Adams.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film is the only one with a Bond Girl whose name is used as the title of the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlso Maud Adams played Bond girl in two different films, The Man With the Golden Gun and this film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWatch out for poor Q getting seduced by a bunch of females to which he replies, u0026quot;later perhapsu0026quot;.”