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Fleming: The Man Who Would be Bond: Season 1 (2014)
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Critic Consensus: Dominic Cooper makes a decent Ian Fleming, but Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond offers no new insight into the author, settling for a generic biopic approach.
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Cast
as Ian Fleming
as Ann O'Neill
as Lieutenant Monday
as Muriel Wright
as Eve Fleming
as John Godfrey
as Peter Fleming
as Loelia
as Esmond Rothermere
as Dorchester Singer
as Marine Cowie
as Rear Admiral Rushbrooke
as Admiral Brandel
as Viscount Alford
as Sub Lieutenant Hepworth
as Admiral Francois Darlan
as Hugo Berger
as Janet
as Flight Lieutenant Cholmondeley
as German Officer - Von Ostheim
as Harbourmaster
as Marine Commander Samuels
as US Captain Curtis
as Lieutenant Commander Dalzel-Job
as German Officer
as Spiv
as German Officer
as SIS Paris Chief
as Florist
as Marine Ranson
as Passerby
Critic Reviews for Fleming: The Man Who Would be Bond: Season 1
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This makes for an action-packed, boudoir-filled miniseries that incidentally enervates Fleming's imagination.
With fine supporting players like Anna Chancellor as Fleming's wartime superior, Second Officer Monday, and Rupert Evans as Ian's brother Peter, this four-part series makes us care about people whose fate neither we nor they can easily summarize.
To dream of being irresistible, heroic and fearless, after all, is not such a hard to understand thing. Its how that desires were borne of personal dramas and failings that "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond" never quite pins down.
It's kinky. It's cunning. It's Bond.
The music swells on cue but the story just doesn't jell. Had Ian Fleming written his Bond novels in this fashion, well, there likely wouldn't have been any sequels.
Given the liberties the writers have taken with the author's biography, they could have made it interesting.
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