The problem with Brosnan's Bond

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I was watching the making of Tomorrow Never Dies (featurette found on the VHS/original DVD release of The World Is Not Enough) and I couldn't help but notice how bland Brosnan seems when he's being interviewed. Parts where he is talking about the gadgets, he hardly smiles and looks bored. Footage of this can be seen in this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSx0tQVQUE
Notice how he speaks at 10:00 when talking about the BMW

He states how he wanted to make sure that the Bond girl in this movie actually had meaning to Bond and that she wasn't just a random throwaway. Thus thanks to Brosnan, we got Teri Hatcher's character (which unfortunately they had to kill her off so early for some reason and then we are left with the action flick fantasy side of the second act).

It's obvious that he wasn't happy with the direction that his movies were going (over the top action and cheesiness) as he has stated recently that he wishes his Bond movies were more like the Daniel Craig ones.

I couldn't agree more. I personally find Tomorrow Never Dies to be the weakest of Brosnan's lot. Die Another Day at least has a strong first act with him being imprisoned for many years and that hospital talk he has with M is all great as is the flashback scenes of him being tortured and the montage over the opening credits (if they had chosen a better pre credits song or made it sound less poppish then it would have worked much better with the imagery). The World Is Not Enough however had some really good dramatic moments for Bond and I liked seeing Brosnan more aggressive and angry instead of the cheerful cheesiness he tends to have in TND and DAD.

As much as I really like Craig in Casino, I cannot help but imagine what Brosnan would have been like if he had starred in Casino instead under the same director who he did GoldenEye with.