Is Octopussy actually good?

Octopussy sits in the 46.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 46.6% of them.

How does Octopussy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Octopussy lands in the 44.3% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Octopussy's score based on?

314 calibrated reviewers stand behind Octopussy's score.

1983

global pct

46.6

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

Octopussy

Name: Octopussy
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: 1983

Scored from 314 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

46.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

44.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

38.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

314 calibrated reviewers

Summary

James Bond investigates the murder of a fellow 00 agent killed while carrying a fake Faberge egg, leading him to a smuggling ring run by a wealthy, mysterious woman called Octopussy and an exiled Afghan prince. The trail uncovers a rogue Soviet general's plot to detonate a nuclear bomb on a U.S. air base in West Germany, and Bond races across India and Europe to stop it.

Octopussy (1983) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and thriller genres.

The calibrated figure is built from 314 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 319 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,790 of whom clear the calibration test.