Pierce Brosnan Is Not A Fan Of Spectre

Following up the most successful entry in the James Bond franchise, Skyfall, wasn’t going to be easy for Spectre, the 24th big screen adventure for Ian Fleming’s suave, super spy. While it is sitting on a $545 million worldwide box office gross after only three weeks, the response from audiences and critics alike has been mixed to say the least (you can read our review here). One person who has a less than favourable view on it is a man who knows a few things about Bond: Pierce Brosnan, who saw his tenure as the character cut short in favour of rebooting the series with Daniel Craig. Speaking to Hitfix, the actor, who has gone on record calling Skyfall ‘magnificent’ seemed to find the same problem everyone else had:

I was looking forward to it enormously. I thought it was too long. The story was kind of weak — it could have been condensed. It kind of went on too long. It really did.

He also went on to say he thought it had a bit of an identity crisis, which is definitely something I found with it, ditching the almost Jason Bourne influenced tone set with Casino Royale for something akin to the Roger Moore, or funnily enough, Brosnan eras:

[Spectre] is neither fish nor fowl. It’s neither Bond nor Bourne. Am I in a Bond movie? Not in a Bond movie?. But Daniel, in the fourth go-round, has ownership of it. He had a nice looseness to him.

So there you have it, a former James Bond’s thoughts on the current James Bond adventure. Do you agree? sound off in the comments below.