Brosnan's accent

Yeah, he's from Ireland so I have no idea why he tried putting on a "fake" Scottish accent. That bothered me throughout the whole film. His real voice is fine and I'm sure women even find it charming. It's pretty much what his James Bond voice is, so I don't know why he felt the need to try and sound like a leprechaun. It just sounded like an American actor trying to do an Irish accent poorly.

his accent was the most stupid and annoying things in the film

The accent he grew up with is probably closest to the one he used in the little independent movie his production company made a few years ago, called "Evelyn".

Actors like Brosnan, Butler, Christian Bale, the late Richard Harris and Richard Burton, and some others from the Ireland-Scotland-Wales triangle seem to manage some interesting tilts to their native accents, especially when they come to the U.S. and play American characters. I quite enjoy hearing whatever they come up with next. But at no time in this movie did I get the impression Brosnan's character was supposed to be an Irish cop. Tom Ryan's occupation is never even hinted at.

Brosnan's Irish Dreamtime production company cranks out interesting smaller films like this fairly regularly. Pierce Brosnan is the only really successful actor to play James Bond so far who has managed to carry on a career quite separate from an image as an action star. I like that he always plays his age and doesn't seem to have any vanity; he'll get down and dirty with the best of them, yet when he chooses to play a character like Thomas Crown you can't imagine anyone else in the role. Compare that movie with "The Matador" or his role opposite Geoffrey Rush in "The Tailor of Panama" or this one, and you get an idea of his range. For a guy who was constantly compared to Cary Grant back when he was acting on "Remington Steele" he's done a great job of confounding industry expectations and forging a truly respectable career, particularly after age 40, when even men usually find roles starting to dry up.

His voice just sounds strange because hes acting with an american and a scotish person talking in an american accent. off course all these 3 voices are going to sound strange as your comparing them to each other

Agreed. An Irishman should be able to pull off an Irish accent no matter the region (as an American I can imitate every American accent). He doesn't normally talk with an Irish accent either. His regular voice is that posh English accent (I'm guessing he moved to England [at 20] and they made him get rid of the Irish accent).

The only time I've heard him do an Irish accent was in "Laws of Attraction" but I don't know what region it was. It seemed really put on so I don't know if it was in a jokey manner or if that's what he sounded like when he was younger.








If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all

I'm from Dublin. His accent is awful. As a fellow Irishman i have no idea what he was thinking. And to say that he shud be able to do an accent just because he 'knows his accents' is absurd. Its a poor Northey attempt that failed, just like Butlers American attempt.

Hollywood is truly ridiculous. I'll never forget Daniel Day Lewis playing an american in gangs of new york (hes Irish) and Leonardo DiCaprio playing an Irishman (hes american!!!!!) How do people actually see these things as normal????

he's Scottish??