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 film's comic agenda" and also commented that ""The Spy Who Dumped Me" isn't just painfully unfunny—it criminally wastes the comic talents of Kate McKinnon." Richard Brody of "The New Yorker" praised the film stating, "Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon riff gleefully in the ample and precise framework of Susanna Fogel's effervescent action comedy", while Justin Chang of the "Los Angeles Times" also gave a positive review saying, ""The Spy Who Dumped Me" [is] a fast, funny Europe-trotting buddy caper". Johnny Oleksinski of "The New York Post" opined it was nice to see McKinnon used properly in a movie and that