As a new millennium loomed on the horizon, the century’s greatest film franchise surged in popularity. Following a critically underrated and commercially meh Timothy Dalton era, the Pierce Brosnan era of movies ushered in something of a golden age across media. The Brosnan age was distinctly action-heavy, generally just the right amount of gritty and outlandish, funny and straight-faced. Brosnan was a consistently brilliant Bond who took everything just seriously enough.
