Giant film review: Pierce Brosnan's action era isn't quite over

Giant film review: Pierce Brosnan is stirring as boxing instructor Brendan Ingle (Photo: True Brit Entertainment)

Giant film review with Pierce Brosnan: ★★★★

Speculation about Pierce Brosnan returning to James Bond seems less outrageous after watching Giant, in which the 70-year-old plays variously-aged versions of the same boxing trainer. In the younger scenes, with flat cap pulled down and pouting like a champ, squint and you could see it: 007 ’s briefly popped to Sheffield.

Brosnan ’s character of Brendan Ingle certainly carries Bond’s childhood trauma, even if we don’t quite work out why he’s so obsessed with chasing validation. The former 007 actor commands in a performance that conveys both Ingle’s kindness and swollen ego, as the trainer dedicates his career to finessing Pri