The name's Bland, not Bond: why Pierce Brosnan is right about his 007

Brosnan's James Bond was lackadaisical and smug what once appeared to be insouciant cool now comes across as laziness

Pierce Brosnan: My James Bond was 'never good enough'

Pierce Brosnan's revelation that he doesn't rate his own performances as Bond, James Bond, ought to be shocking stuff. Here is an actor who throughout his seven-year run as the suave British sleuth was regularly voted the public's second-favourite 007 after Sean Connery. Occasionally, he even came out ahead.

At the time the Brosnan era was considered a hugely successful reinvention of a Bond brand that had suffered in the late 1980s. Timothy Dalton's brace of outings as the secret agent gladly bought into the period's high-octane agenda, but lost something of 007's quintessentially English charm in the process. These films especially 1989's Licence to Kill were, to all intents and purposes, violent Hollywood action movies with a bit of Bond tacked on as an afterthought.

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/apr/14/james-bond-pierce-brosnan-007-goldeneye

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