Sure Octopussy has its slow moments, but when it's good it's easily the third best film in the series.Goldfinger and Casino Royale I would say are both better films. Moore is perfect for this style of Bond. The year that this movie came out, 1983, Sean Connery returned to the part in Warner Bros. Never Say Never Again. Octopussy blows it out of the water. I honestly don't think that this one would have been any better if Connery was Bond instead of Moore.
The opening teaser sequence where 007 flies the mini jet is easily the coolest action sequence in the series and still looks extremely cool 24 years later. Louis Jourdan is one of the best villains in the series and Kristina Wayborn is my second favorite bond girl behind Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball.
Moore almost didn't do this one and James Brolin was almost cast. His screen test is included in a documentary on one of the dvds. He looks like he could have been a very good 007.
The opening teaser sequence where 007 flies the mini jet is easily the coolest action sequence in the series and still looks extremely cool 24 years later. Louis Jourdan is one of the best villains in the series and Kristina Wayborn is my second favorite bond girl behind Luciana Paluzzi in Thunderball.
Moore almost didn't do this one and James Brolin was almost cast. His screen test is included in a documentary on one of the dvds. He looks like he could have been a very good 007.