Review of The November Man (2014) by Randolph B — 06 May 2016

This movie was pretty awesome. It had a lot of great shoot out scenes in it. Brosnan, who's pretty much still known for his 4 films as Bond, but typically plays a ladies man in all of his films, is training another assassin who turns on him.

Most actors and actresses are probably known for 1 or 2 great series over their movie career maybe it's a gift or a curse if they want to try something different. Whereas Bond is more restrained and classy Devereaux is very filthy and ruthless and dirty. In one scene to escape his captor he cuts the vein of the captor's lover and gives him a choice: "catch me or save your lover." Not sure if this is the director, writer knowing Brosnan's name is synonomous with Bond and removing him from idea that this is going to be similar to a Bond film, or introducing us to the independent Devereaux personality which is distinctly different. Honestly, I didn't like this scene. I thought it was gross and not really appropriate. Sure maybe it had to be done. They wanted you to know "hey this isn't going to be another Bond film I'm not here to seduce women, drink a martini, kill the guy, and then go home" but I thought it pushed the line too far. Of all the scenes in the movie and there were a lot of great shoot out scenes, and chase scenes, this was the scene I was most uncomfortable with.

The story was actually really great. It had a great cat and mouse type feel to it, finding this old Russian mob dude and this former child prostitute get revenge on him who hated him all these years. I heard rumors that they were making another but if you check IMDB it doesn't look like anything is in the works.