It is a slow and drawn out film that tries but fails to engages.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 28, 2022

I've seen the Bond movies countless times over the decades, and this title above all is the one that fluctuates the most from one viewing to the next.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2021

It's an easy film to hate (and often paints a big target on its back encouraging you to do so), but it works perfectly as a piece of entertainment, where the good ultimately outweighs the bad.

| Oct 14, 2020

For the first time in the series, the story unfolds like a true mystery, instead of merely having some eccentric billionaire devising a plot to take over the world.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 6, 2020

Out of all the Roger Moore films as Bond, this one is easily the worse for me.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2020

The naffness that was prevalent in the Bond series around the time of Moore still abounds here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2019

The very worst Roger Moore Bond Film, and one to avoid unless you really have to watch every single film in a marathon, like myself, sadly...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2019

"Octopussy" is the 13th of the James Bond movies, and it is one of the best.

| Oct 17, 2018

Considering Bond gets disguised as an ape, a crocodile and a clown, the film has a lot more to be embarrassed about than its title.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Oct 30, 2015

It's a pleasure to report that the James Bond company is confidently back on the beam.

| Oct 6, 2015

This was the 13th Bond movie and it's possibly the most frivolous in the series to date (it's certainly the most careless).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2015

[Director John Glen] keeps the excitement level high for an hour or so, then lets the show slip into the doldrums.

| Oct 6, 2015

A solid action movie without the variety show camp of Moonraker, Octopussy (shock, horror) may well the best of the Moores.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2015

While this film is not up to the level of Goldfinger or Live and Let Die, it is still first-class escapist entertainment.

| Oct 6, 2015

More sexual innuendo than usual in provocatively named film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2014

Octopussy features 2 stand-out action sequences but for the most part, it's an overlong, sluggish, and schizophrenic entry in the Bond series.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2012

James Bond is old. Wrinkled-forehead old. Lecherous-coot old. Strategic-hairstyle old. Senior meal-discount old. Simply ... old. That's the biggest takeaway from Roger Moore's second-worst outing as 007, hot on the heels of his second-best.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 13, 2012

While the film is the first of the genuinely bloated Bond movies, it only rarely drags.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 26, 2012

Bottom-drawer Bond.

| Original Score: C | Feb 19, 2009

Glen's willingness to give the action sequences a certain weight and seriousness produces some genuinely exciting moments, yet his work is everywhere undermined by the flatness of the characterizations and the uncertain architecture of the plot.

| Oct 13, 2008