According to HitFix, Pierce Brosnan - Daniel Craig's Bond's predecessor, isn't too fond of 007's latest big screen outing.
"I was looking forward to [Spectre] enormously," Brosnan revealed. "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 ... [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."
"He's a mighty warrior, and I think he found a great sense of himself in this one with the one-liners and a nice playfulness there. Just get a tighter story, and he'll have another classic."
Pierce Brosnan's comments share a common criticism regarding the film - which is the longest in the entrire franchise - "in that the plot onscreen didn't necessarily justify such an epic-length runtime," according to Screen Rant.
Brosnan also touched on the exhaustion of playing the iconic character.
"I think the guy was just fairly banjaxed by playing it. By the time you finish making a Bond movie, you don't want to hear the name, see the name or have anything to do with it because you just want to go to ground," he explained. "Give him another year off here, and he'll be ready to rock and roll for sure."
Craig, meanwhile says that he's "not in discussion with anybody" about playing Bond for the fifth time.
Along with Craig, "Spectre" also stars Christoph Waltz (Django: Unchained) as Oberhauser, Monica Bellucci (Irreversible) as Lucia Sciarra, Lea Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour) as Dr. Madeleine Swann, Ben Wishaw (Cloud Atlas) as Q, Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) as Mr. Hinx, Naomie Harris (Skyfall) as Eve Moneypenny and Ralph Fiennes (The Red Dragon) as M.
