be too much like hard work

Anything bigger than this is too much like hard work.'

I told you that that would be too much like hard work, Belinda!

It was too much like hard work."

But he decided against it when he realised that it was going to be too much like hard work. '

He has some spectacular action sequences and a fair few close-quarter punch-ups in the manner of Bourne, along with some athletic rooftop-leaping chase scenes that Bonds of an earlier vintage would have rejected as being too much like hard work.