--- title: Pierce Brosnan on 'Spectre': Too Long and the Story Was Weak description: The former James Bond shares his opinion on the latest 007 film. canonical: https://time.com/4117366/pierce-brosnan-spectre-james-bond/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-17T22:29:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:42:59.018Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Pierce Brosnan on 'Spectre': 'Too Long' and 'Story Was Kind of Weak' og:description: The former James Bond shares his opinion on the latest 007 film og:url: https://time.com/4117366/pierce-brosnan-spectre-james-bond/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f807381cf844221/6988719ce20a876598a8e46d/pierce-brosnan.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: USC Norris Cancer Center Gala - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pierce Brosnan on 'Spectre': 'Too Long' and 'Story Was Kind of Weak' twitter:description: The former James Bond shares his opinion on the latest 007 film twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f807381cf844221/6988719ce20a876598a8e46d/pierce-brosnan.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Pierce Brosnan on _Spectre_: 'Too Long' and 'Story Was Kind of Weak' by [Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly Nov 17, 2015 10:29 PM UTC  Pierce Brosnan attends the USC Norris Cancer Center Gala on Oct. 10, 2015 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Pierce Brosnan attends the USC Norris Cancer Center Gala on Oct. 10, 2015 in Beverly Hills, Calif.Paul Archuleta—Getty Images by [Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly Nov 17, 2015 10:29 PM UTC Many film critics found fault with _Spectre_ and its [confounding third act](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/10/spectre-ending), and so too did Pierce Brosnan. The former Bond star said in an interview with HitFix that he thought the latest 007 feature [“too long” and ultimately disappointing](http://www.hitfix.com/news/heres-what-former-007-pierce-brosnan-thought-of-spectre). “I was looking forward to it enormously,” said Brosnan. “The story was kind of weak – it could have been condensed. It kind of went on too long. It really did.” Brosnan, who played the secret agent from 1995 to 2002, went on to say that he thought _Spectre_ was a weird hybrid of James Bond and Jason Bourne, the agent played by Matt Damon in the _Bourne_ movies. “Am I in a Bond movie? Not in a Bond movie?” Brosnan said. Despite his critiques, however, Brosnan said he thought Daniel Craig was a “mighty warrior” in the role – a sentiment he’s had since seeing _Skyfall_ in 2013. “I loved it,” [Brosnan said of that film during an interview in 2013](https://www.yahoo.com/movies/bp/pierce-brosnan-praises-magnificent-daniel-craig-skyfall-talks-192908802.html). “Daniel gives 150 percent of himself to it constantly, both physically and emotionally. He’s a Bond for this age and this time.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/17/pierce-brosnan-spectre?xid=IFT-Trending) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4117366/pierce-brosnan-spectre-james-bond/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4117366/pierce-brosnan-spectre-james-bond/"},"headline":"Pierce Brosnan on Spectre: 'Too Long' and 'Story Was Kind of Weak'","datePublished":"2015-11-17T22:29:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:42:59.018Z","description":"The former James Bond shares his opinion on the latest 007 film","url":"https://time.com/4117366/pierce-brosnan-spectre-james-bond/","keywords":["movies","James Bond","Daniel Craig","Spectre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f807381cf844221/6988719ce20a876598a8e46d/pierce-brosnan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Christopher Rosen / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f807381cf844221/6988719ce20a876598a8e46d/pierce-brosnan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"USC Norris Cancer Center Gala - Arrivals","caption":"Pierce Brosnan attends the USC Norris Cancer Center Gala on Oct. 10, 2015 in Beverly Hills, Calif.","creditText":"Paul Archuleta—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4117366/pierce-brosnan-spectre-james-bond/","name":"Pierce Brosnan on Spectre: 'Too Long' and 'Story Was Kind of Weak'"}}]}] ```