Octopussy

Plot synopsis:
The pre-title teaser takes place in an unidentified Latin American country: James Bond infiltrates a military airbase in order to plant a bomb on a secret radar system, however he is quickly captured by the same officer that he impersonates. As his captors drive him off the base, Bond's female assistant distracts the guards enough for the agent to escape. Using an Acrostar mini-jet, Bond attempts to fly out of the country. A missile is launched from a nearby battery and streaks towards his plane. Bond is unable to outmaneuver the missile at first but is able to lure it into the aircraft hangar where he'd previously failed to destroy the radar system: he flies straight through it, trapping the missile inside and destroying the hangar. As he streaks away, Bond sees that he is nearly out of fuel. He lands near a gas station and cheerfully asks the attendant to "Fill her up, please."In East Germany a clown is fleeing a circus, with two knife-throwing twins in pursuit. As he tries to escape at a border crossing into West Germany, one of the twins hits him in the back with a throwing knife and he falls into a river and is washed away. The man survives the attack and stumbles into the British embassy. He crashes through a glass door and falls dead, a jeweled egg rolling from his hand.In London, Bond reports to his MI6 superior, M, who tells him about the recovered egg which was made by Carl Faberge for the Russian royal family. M informs Bond that the egg is a very elaborately constructed fake and that the real egg is up for auction. He also informs Bond that the man who turned up dead in East Berlin was Agent 009.In a situation room somewhere in the USSR, a group of Soviet officers and state officials meet about the current peace and disarmament talks between themselves and the rest of Western Europe. A combative General, Orlov, presents a plan to the committee where he would lead a fast incursion with tank divisions into Western Europe through Eastern Germany and Czechoslovakia. Orlov's belief is that the disarmament talks are weakening the Soviet army's numerical advantage. The plan is dismissed by the rest of the committee as far too extreme. Orlov sulks and receives a message to report to the Ministry of Antiquities. When he arrives, he gets the news about the stolen egg. He orders one of the twins who killed 009 to have the real egg purchased.Back in London, Bond attends the auction with MI6s antiquities expert and, during the tense bidding for the egg where Bond himself drives up the price, switches the fake for the authentic one. The bidder who wins the egg is a wealthy Afghani exile named Kamal Khan. Bond follows him to Delhi in India.Bond goes to his hotel's nightclub to meet Khan socially. Khan seems unbeatable in backgammon until Bond steps up and wagers the authentic egg. Bond exposes Khan's method of cheating; he uses loaded dice, which Bond seizes and uses to his own advantage, winning a large sum of money in the bargain. As he reports to MI6's safe house, he is attacked by Khan's henchmen, one of them is his personal bodyguard, the turbaned giant, Gobinda. Bond and his Indian Secret Service contact, Vijay, evades his pursuers during a furious chase through a bazaar and finds himself in Q's lab. Q plants a tracking device on the egg and synchs it to Bond's wristwatch.Later, at his hotel, Bond meets another of Khan's operatives, a beautiful woman named Magda, who tells Bond he may trade the egg for his life. Bond sleeps with her, knowing she'll steal the egg. While they're in bed, Bond notices she has an elaborate tattoo of a blue-ringed octopus. Magda escapes Bond's room and is picked up by Khan. Gobinda appears and hits Bond, rendering him unconscious.Bond awakes in Khan's palace and Gobinda informs him that he will attend dinner at 8pm. At the meal, Bond asks why he's being held captive when Khan already has the egg. Khan intends to torture Bond to find out what he knows and which British agency he is working for. Following dinner, Bond escapes from his room and makes his way to the lower chambers of the palace where he finds Khan meeting with Orlov, however, the details about the egg are still unclear but it appears to be a form of payment. He also hears the name of a East German city, Karl-Marx-Stadt. Orlov orders Khan to kill Bond. When Khan finds out that Bond has escaped his confinement, Khan orders a hunting party formed. Bond is able to evade them and the dangers of the nearby jungle.Bond reports to Q who supplies him with a motorized fake alligator which allows him to infiltrate the mysterious floating palace, inhabited only by beautiful women and their secretive leader. He finds a woman, Octopussy, who leads the Octopus Cult, women who are assassins and thieves, who pose as circus performers. She and Bond actually share a connection; her father was a thief whom Bond had tracked years before, however, before Bond could arrest the man, he killed himself and the gold the man had looted was never found. Khan himself suddenly appears, saying that Bond had escaped, however, Octopussy tells Khan that the agent is staying with her. Khan leaves, silently furious at the turn of events. He hires a small group of assassins to infiltrate Octopussy's compound, stressing that Octopussy herself is not to be harmed. Before the assassins make it to the island, they kill Vijay, who'd been on stakeout nearby.Bond snoops around Octopussy's private study and finds a flyer for her circus. She walks in the room and tells Bond she'll be going away for a week. Bond suspects that Octopussy will be going to Karl-Marx-Stadt with Khan. He and Octopussy quarrel a bit when Bond says he may not be there when she returns. The two make love; while in bed together they are attacked by assassins after Bond. Bond and Octopussy thwart them all, however Bond is forced out a window and into the river. He appears to be eaten by an alligator, however it is the same false one he used to infiltrate the palace. Returning to the stakeout point where Q and Bond's Indian contact, Vijay, had been waiting for him, Bond finds Q with the murdered Vijay. Before he died, Vijay confided in Q that he was attacked by Kamal's men. Bond tells Q to contact M and inform him that he needs to travel to Karl-Marx-Stadt.Bond travels to West Berlin to meet with M on the situation. From there, Bond travels into East Germany and secretly attends Octopussy's circus. The next day, Bond poses as a circus employee where he soon discovers that the Faberge egg is part of a cache of priceless jewelry being used to pay Orlov for a stolen Soviet nuclear bomb that will be detonated on the American airbase at Feldstadt in West Germany. The nuclear explosion will be planned to look like an accident by the United States - the bomb will be housed in the cannon from the human cannonball stunt in the show, which will also make smuggling it over the East/West German border easier. Orlov hopes that NATO will order nuclear disarmament throughout Europe so that he may make his lightning armored strike through the Iron Curtain and invade Western Europe.Meanwhile, the fake jewelry has already been delivered by Orlov to the Moscow Ministry of Antiquities to take the place of the stolen items. Orlov's superior, General Gogol, having discovered that the jewelry in Moscow is bogus, immediately departs for the East-West German border to apprehend Orlov.Bond is able to find the train car with the cannon where the jewelry is also hidden for smuggling purposes. The jewelry is being removed from one cannon and being placed into another - Khan and Orlov have been working together to double-cross Octopussy from the beginning. Bond finds one of the twin knife-throwers making the switch and kills him, hiding the body in the cannon's barrel and donning his clothes. Bond interrogates Orlov when the latter arrives to inspect the work, finding out his plan for conquering Europe. Bond is forced to retreat when Soviet guards come to aid Orlov and he steals Orlov's car. During a brief chase, the tires on Orlov's car are shredded and Bond drives onto the train tracks in pursuit of the train itself. He manages to board the train with Orlov in pursuit.Bond hides in the cannon car inside a gorilla suit. The train is stopped at the West/East German border and the border guards from both countries search the train, finding neither Bond in the gorilla suit or the bomb in the stage cannon. When the train resumes, Orlov drives to the border and attempts to flee on the train by chasing after it on foot. When he crosses the border illegally, the border guards open fire and fatally wound him until Gogol arrives. Standing before the dying Orlov, Gogol ridicules him as being a nothing but a "common thief", but with his last breath Orlov vows to be made Hero of the Soviet Union by tomorrow.On the train, now traveling through West Germany, Bond witnesses Khan and Gobinda arming the bomb by setting a timer to detonate it in four hours at 3:45 pm when the stage cannon will be used. Gobinda hears a clang in the room caused by Bond while hiding in a gorilla suit. He follows Bond to the roof of the train where they battle briefly. The brother of the twin that Bond killed finds them both but realizes that Bond is not his brother. The two fall off the train together, Bond being pursued by the twin - Bond kills the man and now finds himself lagging behind the train. He hitches a ride with a German couple, then steals a woman's car and drives to the airbase at Feldstadt with the local police in pursuit.Bond forces his way onto the base, chased by security guards. Bond trades the twin's clothing for a clown suit and goes in search of the cannon. Bond immediately runs to the base commander, who is sitting with Octopussy at the performance. Khan and Gobinda have already stolen out of the tent to clear the blast area, leaving Octopussy behind. Bond tells the commander that the bomb is about to go off and pleads with Octopussy to back him up, showing her some of the fake jewelry. Failing that, Bond returns to the cannon to open the box and disarm the bomb. Though Bond is restrained by security, Octopussy now convinced, uses a guard's gun to disable the lock on the box which exposes the bomb With the bomb now exposed, the base commander gives Bond time to disarm the bomb, which he does. Bond removes the detonator just seconds before it activates, and the bomb is disarmed. Octopussy asks Magda where Khan went, she tells her back to India.Both Bond and Octopussy separately follow Khan to his palace in Delhi. Octopussy uses her women followers as commandos to infiltrate the palace and subdue Khan's men. Octopussy finds Khan herself but is captured. Khan retreats to a waiting plane and takes off. Bond manages to grab hold of the plane's exterior and refuses to be thrown off by Khan. Khan sends Gobinda out to deal with Bond but Bond is able to throw him off the craft to his death. Bond next disables the tail mechanisms, sending the plan plummeting towards earth. Bond is able to find Octopussy inside the plane and the two jump to safety just before the plane crashes into a cliff, killing Khan.Back in London, M meets with Gogol, who wishes to congratulate Bond personally for stopping Orlov. M says that Bond is still in India, recovering from varying injuries. In truth, Bond is fine and spends a romantic evening with Octopussy aboard her yacht.

Tags: revenge, cult, murder

Review:
Because, for example, we see Bond dressed like a clown or keeping a plaster; there's an exotic and romantic atmosphere -which reminds us of some adventure books (like Emilio Salgari's "Sandokan" and "The count of Monte-Cristo"...) Here 007 has to travel between India and Germany for stopping a catastrophic plan of Soviet General Orlov and Afghan prince Khamal Khan.With a little more parody than in the previous film "For your eyes only", "Octopussy" continues in the line of more down to earth Bond adventures.Roger Moore's performance is good as usual, the cast is also remarkable -Louis Jourdan is one of the French actors who built a good Hollywood career, starring in films like Hitchcock's "The Paradine case" and Vincente Minnelli's "Gigi".
Jourdan brings a special touch of glamour -you see he's an actor of the golden years of Hollywood!Maud Adams is the only actress who played twice a Bond girl -she was Andrea in "The man with the golden gun".Steven Berkoff is an established English actor, mainly for theater, but he played also in Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon".Kabir Bedi is an Indian actor very popular in the second half of the Seventies -he was "Sandokan" in a famous TV film made by RAI, Italian public TV.John Glen directs the film with a lot of fun and assures a great show.
The film doesn't disappoint."Octopussy" is the last great Roger Moore movie as Bond, and maybe the last BIG Bond of the series as well -because it's original, lavish, acrobatic, romantic and pompous.
His investigation leads him to uncover a fiendish plot by a rogue Soviet General to detonate a nuclear device that will leave Western Europe vulnerable to a Soviet attack.Undeniably the film that should have been Roger Moore's last as James Bond, Octopussy contains both the best and worst of the James Bond franchise.
The cast assembled is mostly impressive, with Adams and Jordan doing great characterisations, the photography by Hume makes India look like a paradise, Glen orchestrates some excellent action set-pieces, including one of the best pre-credits scenes of the series, and Barry's score is a swirl of romanticism and invention.
While there's a new man enviably following the much missed Bernard Lee by playing M (Robert Brown) and Q (Desmond Llewelyn) gets a bigger role to play in the story.Sadly, even though Moore is continuing the good acting of Bond he achieved in For Your Eyes Only, he is looking his age and not physically suited to the action.
Many criticized this film at the time of its release with comments like" Moore's tongue in cheek humor has turned Bond's style into brainless films , full of silly jokes, with no plot or character development.
What makes this movie extremely compelling is its adventurous storyline, which successfully combines the classic 70's spy thriller convoluted plot with amazing, yet surrealistic, action sequences, more likely to be part of a comic book (but a good one, indeed) such as the jet escape at the beginning, which is definitely the BEST pre-credit scene in the whole series.
Add to that a smooth villain in Louis Jourdan, delicious over-the-top counterpoint from Steven Berkoff, a formidable henchman in Kabir Bedi, two exotic Bond girls in Maud Adams and Kristina Wayborn, beautiful location photography in the rich "travelogue" style (did India ever look as good as it does here?) and a great John Barry score and you can't go wrong with it at all.
This has more laughs in it - stupid and clever - than any Bond film I can recall.Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jordan, Kristina Wayborn, Steven Berkoff and Kabir Bedi must have had a lot of fun - and been worn out - making this film.
Bond again in an electrifying movie that scored a new hit at action genre.The immortal agent 007,whose deadly precision,sour irony and irresistible attractive is perfectly portrayed by Roger Moore.This time he investigate the killing of one his colleagues who appeared dead with a Russian egg Faberge of incalculable price.
He undergoes an incredible adventure with spectacular pursuits until a chilling countdown towards nuclear holocaust.OO7 taking off an elegant villain(Louis Jourdan)named Kamal Khan living in India,Bond tries to stop him but the maniacal nasty wreak all sorts of havoc until Bond steps in and he schemes to put a nuclear bomb at a circus whose owner is Octopussy(Maud Adams,the only Bond girl who repeated acting,previously played ¨The man with the golden gun¨).The film contains excitement,emotion,lots action,suspense,gorgeous women(a beautiful Kristina Wayborn)and maniacal nasties(Jourdan,Steven Berkoff,Kabir Bedi).The argument tosses in every cliché including the obligatory intervention by MonneyPenny(Lois Maxwell),M and Q(Desmond Llewelyn).
Before essaying the role Bond, Roger Moore honed his suavity in the series ¨The Saint¨,hence he adds a humorous-tongue in check dimension to Ian Fleming's famed creation as the connoisseur(women and wine especially) spy hero,starting his role Bond with ¨Live and let die¨.Film displays gimmicks and silly set pieces that usually marred the best Moore outings.In spite of an exciting opening sequence and some thrilling scenes along the way the Bond-Moore series is starting to look a little tired, just its star protagonist.John Barry's music is unforgettable ,as always and colorful cinematography by Alan Hume.An agreeable screenplay and more believable exciting with cliff-hangers situations come to mind;still,this solid outing isn't bad Bond and it does star the best sympathetic OO7.This is one of the more watchable entries based on a short book by Fleming with the same title with Roger Moore in top form as 007 and assured direction by John Glen..
A good story with a great cast.Louis Jordan is a excellent villain in classic bond tradition.Kabir Bedi is a memorable Henchman that also gets one of the biggest laughs.Maud Adams is clearly nearer to Moores age thus looking a more belivable screen couple.the action is as good as ever.the cast look like they are having fun.and that fun was enjoyed by the audience i saw it with when i was 13 back in 1983.on dvd the print and sound could be better but the movie is so good i easily overlooked itsless than impressive transfer.i love the scene Bond tries to hitchike which is as real as it can get.i should also mention Steven Berkoff who went on to even more famous screen villains in Beverly hills cop and Rambo First blood 2..
The teaser is fantastic; the cinematography is a marvel; the henchman is sane (for once); it has the greatest title in motion-picture history; the best plot in motion-picture history; the most sustained suspense in motion-picture history (the tension reaches a head at the circus-tent bomb disarming sequence, and, by God, this circus sequence is one of the greatest pieces of film in history); golden Easter eggs; fake horse hind-quarters; (brief) nudity; sex; guys falling off of motorcycles; stunt chickens; fantastic one-liners; an auction sequence that ranks as cinema's greatest auction sequence (not much competition, though); comedic Hindus; backgammon; fire-eaters; a symbolic Shangri-La (also an island populated entirely with women); old-man jokes; a monstrous quasi-'70s safari suit; a Tarzan yell; a face-humping octopus, a buzz-saw yo-yo; Indians covered with feathers; a plastic crocodile; a gorilla suit; car thefts; monkey attacks; clown antics; and Roger Moore clinging to the exterior of in an in-flight 'plane.But what REALLY makes this film are its two leads: Roger Moore and Louis Jourdan.
"Octopussy" is actually one of three Bond films I have only seen three times, and I'm not quite sure why I liked this one on my previous two viewings, as I found it rather intolerable in places this time around, in spite of the presence of some fun action scenes.
I never thought I'd say it, but "Never Say Never Again" might just be the better film from 1983 to feature James Bond."Octopussy" sees Bond head to India, something which seemed inevitable but took the series a long time to get to.
Coming in at unlucky number 13 in the James Bond series, Octopussy is at the scrag end of Roger Moore's incarnation, when it had begun to look like 007 might require liver tablets just to make it out of bed in the morning.
Bond follows the trail to India where he meets the mysterious Octopussy (Maud Adams), a treasure smuggler and business mogul, and falls on the bad side of Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan), an exiled Afghan prince overseeing the operation.
(Credit to IMDb) 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.This is one of Roger's best outings as Bond.
This is another fun Bond adventure with plenty to like.Roger Moore is starting to show his age a little bit in this film, but he's still has his charm and can still seduce women and deliver the one-liners.
You'll enjoy the film if you just ignore those.By no means is this Bond's "All-Time High" like Rita Coolidge's theme song says, but this is still a fun, suspenseful, action-packed entry in the Bond series.
Story also takes him to India, where he meets up with the title character(Maud Adams) and her circus performers, staying with villain Kamal( played by suave Louis Jordan) who is involved with the evil plan.Despite the sight of James Bond dressed as a clown(!) this entry is still a lot of fun, striking the right balance between seriousness and high adventure, resulting in a satisfying film, though it does go on a bit too long!
Moore still carried the film through with dignity and his wit never seems forced in this movie, instead it seems to suit just fine.The mysterious Octopussy is played by Maud Adams, who had played Bond girl previously in "The Man with the Golden Gun" also along with Roger Moore.
Considering all of the films in the series which try to mix humor and frantic action together, Octopussy does it best.It's definitely a bizarre plot, beginning with a 00 agent found dead in a clown suit.
Bond hunts down a Faberge egg, leading into a terrorist plot in the twixt of the Cold War. Moore's Bond finally gets a woman his age, with an older Maud Adams playing the "Bond girl" who has a degree of authority and likes to stay in charge of things.
But another 007 adventure was released that year and to many it is considered the greatest Bond film of all time, 'Octopussy'.'Octopussy' starred Roger Moore in his sixth outing as Agent 007 and was directed by John Glen, the man who also directed Moore's second best Bond film, 'For Your Eyes Only'.
However it is wonderful to see yet more charming appearances from Desmond Llewellyn, Lois Maxwell and Walter Gotell as the irrepressible gadget specialist Q, consistently flirting secretary Moneypenny and kindly, wry Russian general Gogol respectively, as well as Robert Brown's debut in the role of MI6 head M after the tragic passing of Bernard Lee. A strong script, sumptuous locations, plenty of brilliantly executed action sequences and some quality casting make Octopussy one of Moore's most consistently impressive Bond outings, for those willing to forgive the occasional eye rolling moment of out of place silliness.
Begins fairly well: with an acrobatic, high-flying pretitle sequence, followed by a close adaptation of Ian Fleming's The Property Of A Lady short-story involving the sale of a Faberge egg at Sotheby's in London- which unfortunately goes nowhere, as Bond then ends up on in India on a small island populated by beautiful women belonging to an octopus cult, before relocated to East Berlin and disarming a nuclear bomb in a circus, in a surprisingly serious climax where Bond dresses as a clown as cover.But what's the point?
The seven films he did are as follows:LIVE AND LET DIE (1973), THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974), THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977), MOONRAKER (1979), FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981), OCTOPUSSY (1983) and A VIEW TO A KILL (1985).All seven were hugely popular at the box office, which explains why they kept making 'em every two years.Many Bond fans curiously look down on Moore's stint, no doubt because there was a little too much silly humor in his films but, to me, the Moore entrees are the most consistently entertaining.
Every Bond film features a main villain and a few accomplices/subordinates who want to cause great havoc; Bond defies death at every turn and runs into numerous beautiful women as he moves from one exotic locale to another trying to figure out the villains' scheme and stop it."Octopussy" was filmed on location in India, East Germany & England, with the closing aerial scenes shot in Utah; these settings are fabulous as usual.
We also get circuses, clowns, trains, mad Russian militarists and bombs-about-to-explode.One thing that distinguishes "Octopussy" is that it has more of an Indiana Jones appeal than any other installment, which stands to reason since Indiana Jones was hugely popular at the time ("Raiders of the Lost Ark" came out two years earlier while "The Temple of Doom" came out the year after "Octopussy").The "Bond women" featured in "Octopussy" are Sweden's own Maud Adams (who previously appeared in "The Man with the Golden Gun") and Kristina Wayborn.
"Octopussy", the 13th James Bond movie, is Roger Moore's best 007 picture.
Maud Adams (Octopussy) and Kristina Wayborn (Magda) are wonderful as the Bond women; Louis Jourdan (Kamal Khan) and Kabir Bedi (Gobinda) are excellent as two of the main villains.
In this country, Bond meets a mysterious woman known as Octopussy who is close to Kahn, and also finds that Kahn is working with Russian General Orlov to have a nuclear device go off on an American Air Force Base, leading to World War III!This Bond film has some good parts, and I think that includes a reasonable intro, and the scene where 009 is being chased in his clown suit is definitely one that got me excited.
I haven't seen View To A Kill or Moonraker lately, which I recall being pretty appalling, but Octopussy definitely represents one of the Bond series' lowest points, if not THE lowest.Dreadful performances (the worst being Steven Berkoff as a Russian general), a ridiculous plot (even for a Bond film), and 007 manages to find his way into both a clown's outfit & a gorilla suit.
Gorilla, not guerilla, I didn't misspell that.Not to mention the fact that Roger Moore was far too old at that point to be playing James Bond - it's often stomach-churning to watch him delivering slimy innuendo to the female cast, most of whom aren't even half his age, more like a third of it.One could argue that it's all in the name of self-parody, but once a film or TV series ends up making fun of itself, it's usually an indication that it's on its last legs.
Even with its flaws, however, "Octopussy" is one of the most entertaining - and re-watchable - James Bond films, and Moore's second best after "For Your Eyes Only".
A Little Bit Ridiculous But You'll Still Enjoy It. Out of all the Bond movies, this has to be the craziest and has some truly ridiculous moments but being a fan of Roger Moore as 007, I could forgive them.Louis Jordan plays Kamal Khan, the main villain and he is backed up by his henchman Gobinda played by Kabir Bedi.
In spite of most of the bad reviews of the film, I liked it, I thought it was the best movie in the James Bond saga with Roger Moore, it had fantastic special effects, interesting and captivating story, good gadjets and great characters.
1983 the year of the two Bond films, Octopussy and Never Say Never Again, Roger Moore Vs Sean Connery, but which was the best?
Despite the fact Sean Connery is by far the best Bond Never Say Never Again lacked just about everything needed in a 007 film, and Octopussy has it all, the amazing action scenes, the exotic locations, the gun barrel into, the teaser sequence (one of the best in the series) and of course a John Barry score.
OK Roger Moore is getting too old to play 007, but Octopussy is definetely his second best Bond film after The Spy Who Loved Me. Louis Jordan is great as the Bond villain and Maud Adams is one of the most beautiful Bond girls deserving her unique position of appearing in two James Bond movies.
It's an enjoyable Bond film, mostly because of Roger Moore, who is still terrific in the lead role in his sixth outing as 007, he's cool, slick and very funny, his one liners here are particularly excellent and it's what makes him stand out from other Bond actors, his scenes with Maud Adams are the best as the two have undeniable chemistry.
It has many flaws, if you're a fan of James Bond, and particularly Roger Moore, then you should certainly watch Octupussy, but if you're looking for a genuinely good adventure film, give it a miss.
Camera-work is good, background score is very much in tune with the events unfolding on the screen, the twists are often too many and they do eventually begin to pile up without providing any sort of surprise, while Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn & Kabir Bedi do an adequate job in their given roles.On an overall scale, what eventually works out in favour of Octopussy is its light-hearted narration that never takes itself seriously, doesn't let the fun vibe die down at any moment, and because of that, even its ridiculous-looking action segments don't bother much and end up working in an amusing way actually.
John Glen's direction is rather nice, I just wish the plot was stronger, I think the film suffers from an average narrative.The Bond girls are hot, Maud Adams returns, this time she's playing Octopussy, she does well and is old enough to make Moore look respectable.