Written by James M. Tate / 11/13/2015 / No comments / adventure , eighties , espionage , james bond , louis jourdan , maud adams , roger moore , steven berkoff
MOORE BOND SIX: 'OCTOPUSSY' WITH MAUD ADAMS
year: 1983 cast: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan |
And then, in 1983, the Bond franchise borrowed from a Lucas/Spielberg collective, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, since OCTOPUSSY is more or less a modern day pulpy adventure vehicle that, whether in crowded Arabian streets (involving a familiar "basket chase"), flamboyant Russian circuses, formidable trains, or behind the scenes where the philosophizing heavies meet in technological war rooms, there's a vintage, primal aura throughout what should have been Moore's final bow in the series.
Pulp Glory |
But that's after a completely fulfilling, dashing and heroic template co-starring THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN expendable Bond girl, Maud Adams, now in the title ingenue role, a gorgeous patsy for chief villain Louis Jourdan, fitting in with serpentine ease yet paling in overall brutal force to Steven Berkoff's Russian madman.
If you happen to catch the final twenty-minutes where Roger Moore practically flies like a superhero, this particular 007 episode may seem beyond far-fetched and overboard campy. But start from the beginning and you'll enjoy a kind of page-turning, fast moving, visual dime novel that, no matter where the locale, is bathed in a unique, antique glow, not only beating Sean Connery in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN that same year at the box office, but featuring one of the best pre-opening-credit prologue sequences ever involved in the franchise.
RATING: ****
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