The Spy Who Loved Me (film) other writers into his script. Maibaum's original script featured an alliance of international terrorists attacking SPECTRE's headquarters and deposing Blofeld, before trying to destroy the world for themselves to make way for a New World Order. However, this was shelved. After Gilbert was reinstated as director, he decided to bring in another writer, Christopher Wood. Gilbert also decided to fix what he felt the previous Roger Moore films were doing wrong, which was writing the Bond character too much the way Sean Connery played him, and instead portray Bond closer to the books — "very English, very smooth, good sense
The Spy Who Dumped Me "" and "Christopher Robin". It fell 45% to $6.6 million in its second weekend, finishing sixth. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 49% based on 184 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""The Spy Who Dumped Me" isn't the funniest or most inventive spy comedy, but Kate McKinnon remains as compulsively watchable as ever." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average