Christoph Waltz in SPECTRE (Matthew Kelly)
Christoph Waltz is an international treasure. Ever since 2009’s Inglorious Basterds, audiences have been all in on this smiling Austrian. He won two Academy Awards for work on different Tarantino projects. Perhaps Waltz’s greatest skill is the ability to take even the most unwatchable movie, and turn it into something decent. Never has this truer than in the case of 2015’s SPECTRE.
The follow-up to Skyfall should have been a slam dunk but ended up being closer to a player attempting a windmill, accidentally throwing the ball into the stands, and in the confusion slamming headfirst into the rim. Also, his pants fall down. Say what you will about Quantum of Solace, but at least it made sense. SPECTRE was the biggest mix of uninteresting destiny and implausible action since the end of Die Another Day, and it wasn’t nearly as fun.
And Christoph was the biggest disappointment of all. He gave it all he could but it’s like being a team in the same division as the Patriots; there is only so much room to succeed. He wasn’t even introduced until the third act. There was the flimsiest of reasons why he wants revenge on Bond at all. The plan he executed didn’t make a link of sense (although few Bond villains plans do). And to top it all off, the “reveal” that he was the classic James Bond villain all along was both annoyingly obvious and a pathetic attempt to make a reference to a movie that 85% of the film’s audience had never seen. It’s like the Star Trek into Darkness reveal if Wrath of Kahn came out in 1967 and most people only recognized Kahn as a parody played by Mike Meyers.
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Interesting list! For Weltz though, I’d have picked The Green Hornet. Bloodnofsky was the best part of that shitshow.