Great Movie, Bad Aspect

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Aside from the blonde assassin dude, you're pretty much right. Joe Don Baker and Jeroen Krabbe are simply not threatening or charismatic.

It's a recurring problem with Bond movies casting actors who have shown they can do menace - Charles Gray (The Devil Rides Out), Krabbe (No Mercy), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), Jonathan Pryce (Something Wicked This Way Comes), Walken (almost everything) - and then having them camp it up or play for laughs. It was a real surprise that Waltz resisted the trend.