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Octopussy

 Starring: Roger Moore

 Directed by: John Glen

 Rated PG

 Genre: Action

 Original Release Year: 1983

 Synopsis: When British Secret Agent 009 is murdered while carrying a fake faberge egg, 007 is sent out to find out where the real egg is and what is so valuable about it.

 My Thoughts: Not one of the finer stories from the James Bond franchise...at all.

   Scorecard

     Acting- Roger Moore is again asked to return as James Bond, and again does another really good job in the character he was given. But sadly, the supporting cast around him. including the title character played by Maud Adams does terrible. There was nothing exciting about the characters, and it really hurt the Bond character. (0)

     Direction- Part of directing is to get good performances out of your actors. John Glen returns and does not get good performances at all, granted, it wasn't really his fault due to bad casting and a bad story. Glen still continues to deepen the character of James Bond though and that helps the rating some. (1/2)

     Story- When any story has a super sleuth trying to find a jewel smuggler (who happens to be a woman) really doesn't go very far in my eyes. To be honest, this is the worst written Bond film in the entire franchise. (0)

     Expectations- Once I head what this story was about, I really didn't have a lot of expectations for this movie, and it just about met what I had for it. (1/2)

     Boring?- This film in a Bond movie...it really cannot be that boring. There were some really silly parts here and there were some parts of the movie that really had you groaning it was so bad, but overall it wasn't all that boring. Luckily this film only had a running time of about 125 minutes, because if it were any longer, this might have gotten a zero. (1/2)

   Final Score: 1 1/2 out of 5

 Final Thoughts: This movie was what it was...a bad Bond film. Nothing too exciting or great, but was a Bond film nonetheless. This is one of the few Bond films that I really wouldn't even recommend to even fans of the franchise. I say, skip this one completely.

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