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 grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it 3 out of 5 stars. "Variety"s Owen Gleiberman praised McKinnon's performance but criticized the film for favoring violence over comedy, writing, ""The Spy Who Dumped Me" is no debacle, but it's an over-the-top and weirdly combustible entertainment, a movie that can't seem to decide whether it wants to be a light comedy caper or a top-heavy exercise in B-movie mega-violence." Barbara VanDenburgh of "The Arizona Republic" called the film "a tonally incongruous, plodding and graphically violent comedy" and gave the film 2 out of 5