Second to last Moore film, here's Octopussy.
Plot: When Agent 009 is murdered while carrying a fake Fabergé egg, M sends Bond to go to the auction in London and track the person who buys the real egg to find out if they're behind it. The person who buys it is an exiled Afghan prince named Kamal Khan, who is in league with a renegade Soviet general named Orlov who plans to start a conquest against conquest Europe as a way to expand the Soviet Union's boarders.
Okay so what is easily good about this particular Bond film is that it manages to have really good action and a sort of suspenseful climax, it gave us new gadgets too look at even though Bond rarely used any, and while the villains themselves didn't really stand out, their evil plot was considerably big and menacing. That last positive thing in particular, I have found to be something to always value comparing to other evil plots in some of these film that are mostly just smugglers and things like that. But that doesn't help from this movie still being bad. Because again, the villains didn't really stand out, and the climax - while still enjoyable - did still fall in line to acting more like an ordinary action film and not really like something from a big franchise like Bond. But the biggest issues seem to revolve around the moments where the movie tried to be funny or just don't really work in a Bond film such as Bond wearing a Gorilla suit (no, I did not make that up), dressing up as a clown (still didn't make that up) and worst of all, swinging through trees and emitting a Tarzan yell (boy I really with I completely made that one up). Also Moore doesn't make this better because he's acting less like Bond then he was a couple of films ago and is sadly starting to show that he's aging.
And that's my review for Octopussy. The action and the climax is enjoyable as well as the evil plot as a whole, but it had villains that weren't all that interesting, it acted more like an ordinary action film, and had moment like Bond making a Tarzan yell that...just...no.
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