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.