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Brosnan is not quite Bond, but The November Man keeps the action

(Review) He’s Peter, not James, and he’s back with his former gig, the CIA

It’s no shock to the system to see Pierce Brosnan doing all that spy game stuff as main action figure Peter Devereaux in The November Man. You remember his turns as Bond, James Bond, from 1995 to 2002, right? In this one, directed by Roger Donaldson and adapted for the screen by Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek from Bill Granger’s novel There Are No Spies, Brosnan plays a guy who’s checked out of duty from the CIA, living a quiet life as a cafe owner in a gorgeous waterside spot in Switzerland, where he’s visited by a former crony. Hanley, played by a taciturn Bill Smitrovich, wants his old pal’s help taking care of some volatile business in Belgrade.
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Hanley invokes the name of a woman dear to Devereaux’s heart, so the old boy turns up in the middle of very risky action indeed. There are Russians involved. (Aren’t there always Russians involved in spy/action/drug/political movies these days?) Also in the loop is a younger man, an agent who in fact was Devereaux’s protege right up until the time the older agent decided he’d had enough of the spy game.
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