Fairly accurate

A fairly realistic look at the life of Ian Fleming, and his real life involvment with naval intelligence during World War II that would go on to influence his fiction. (Although some liberties have been taken for the sake of drama.) Playing far more loose with the facts (almost as if they were trying to make a James Bond film without having to pay for the James Bond name) was the entertaining (but fairly fictionalized) SPYMAKER: THE SECRET LIFE OF IAN FLEMING (which starred Sean Connery's son, Jason, as Ian Fleming). Both films are highly entertaining adventures, but GOLDENEYE (not to be confused with the later Bond film of the same name) does keep itself more rooted in reality. Charles Dance bears an uncanny resemblance to Bond author Ian Fleming here. (Dance had a brief appearance, as a killer, in a Bond film, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.) The two Fleming bio-films would make an interesting double feature for a rainy afternoon....