Former James Bond 007 actor Pierce Brosnan has some trenchant criticisms for new James Bond movie Spectre, plus great advice for current James Bond actor Daniel Craig, who has increasingly expressed frustration with the demands of the James Bond role.

“I was looking forward to it enormously,” Pierce Brosnan told Hitfix. “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.”

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Brosnan went on to describe Spectre as “neither fish nor fowl. It’s neither Bond nor Bourne. Am I in a Bond movie? Not in a Bond movie?”

Still, Brosnan remains a fan of Daniel Craig’s take on the James Bond role.

“Daniel, in the fourth go-round, has ownership of it. He had a nice looseness to him,” Brosnan said of his Spectre performance. “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 also understands better than most how tiring being in James Bond movie after James Bond movie can be. When asked about Craig’s comment that he’d rather “slash my wrists” than do another James Bond movie, Brosnan sympathized. “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.”

So far Daniel Craig’s career as James Bond 007 has tracked pretty closely with Pierce Brosnan’s own experiences with the franchise. Both Brosnan and Craig had one classic Bond movie (Goldeneye and Casino Royale), one entertaining enough mediocrity (Tomorrow Never Dies and Skyfall), and two poos (everything else).

But the real news is that the word “banjaxed” exists.