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Sucked out of the plan Goldfinger-style.
One of Graves' Korean thugs knocked Bond's gun arm to the side so that he would misfire and not hit Graves, and in the process, caused Bond's bullet to blow out one of the windows and depressurize the plane, which in turn, caused Vlad to be the lucky contestant to be sucked out first!
While I wouldn't call him the worst he was pretty crap.
The guy who got fed by the sharks was meant to be a weak henchman, mainly to show Largo's cruelty. He had a great death anyway. Vargas did not need to do much, his introduction and his mere presence were enough IMO. And it was a great introduction: a man who seems to take no pleasure in life whatsoever, a perfect puritan, is pretty creepy.
Does nothing really. His only moment of threat comes the second before he dies when he is aiming a gun at Bond, but then the same could be argued for Elvis.
However isn't Vargas one of the guys who breaks in and throws Paula on the bed? That edges him ahead of Elvis who is only able to get himself tripped down a flight of stairs by the sacrificial lamb of the film.
Well, Bond wasn't even around when Elvis left the building, so there wasn't even a chance of a one-liner coming. Kinda unfair, eh?
Quite pathetic for sure! The most he did was chuck grenades into the water to try and kill 007 under the Disco Volante, but even that completely failed, and the most damage he and his comrades did was clip Bond's diving pack with their motorboat propeller!
http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Elvis
*cough*
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I apologise Mr Vargas. I forgot about your grenade throwing. You are light years above Elvis.
The 'film biography' tab makes particularly amusing reading!
We should stop really this is like shooting fish in a barrel, something ironically Elvis would struggle with no doubt.
Got to mention Hans again, You Only Live Twice - what a waste of a screen presence. And that fight with Connery at the volcano base - very short lived and disappointing. They could of done so much better with the character
People will mention Kidd and Wint. Yes they were a bit incompetent, but they generated so much humor and fun, I can't really say a bad word against them
Add to that, (in the direct above), Herve Villechaize from Golden Gun
I thought Scarpine and Karl Mortner were good villains, but could of been used a bit more in View to a Kill also. Another wasted opportunity I feel
The blond assassin in FYEO is a bit dull, plus we see he's a crack shot but then oddly misses Bond, repeatedly, when he's a sitting duck. I hate that kind of movie making.
Yeah Kriegler is pretty pathetic in that scene and rather bland all round. Not to mention his death scene is also quite inept.
But at least he 'takes a bloody shot'. Elvis doesnt get one round off in the entire film.
In SF I'd hoped for an assassin/henchman like Jude Law in Road to Perdition... there is a brilliant set-piece involving him and a botched attempt if I recall, also the bit where Newman is cornered at night and all his henchmen taken out. Fantastic stuff, but nothing as good as that in Skyfall imo.
Sandor got beated up by Roger Moore
Jaws in MR
She worked very well because she was so creepy, and there is no hate for the bedroomscene but great respect for Sir Roger Moore who should have gotten an Oscar for that particular scene. ;)
I really liked Onnatop although maybe you can't count her.
Kronsteen was great. He didn't need to pull any trigger or go into a fist fight, he had a great plan that nearly worked! He was killed because SPECTRE is a perfectionist organization, but through no fault of his own. Hans however, I will agree with you, he was not very good, all he did was look mean and then go into a fist fight with Bond, as a poor man's Oddjob/Grant.
I dislike DAF, strongly, but I have to admit Kidd and Wint were very efficient henchmen: how many people did they kill in the movie? And this is not counting how close they got to kill Bond himself.
How good are they really though?
1st kill - a middle aged man in the middle of the desert with no risk of any witnesses so long as they do it before the chopper turns up.
2nd kill - a 75 year old woman. How she must have put up a fight.
3rd kill - a 70 year old bloke who looks like one more cigarette away from coughing himself to death anyway.
4th kill - a young girl (if we are to assume it is them who kill Plenty - its never confirmed).
And remember throughout all these difficult hits they outnumber their victims 2 to 1 - a luxury none of the other henchman have.
And then we come to their efforts on Bond:
1st fail - OK I know its not their fault that Shady Tree saves Bond but they could have easily made sure he was dead before they burned him.
2nd fail - OK I know its not their fault the maintenance blokes saved Bond but they could have easily made sure he was dead before they buried him.
3rd fail - Now it is their fault that Bond torched one of them and the other got blown up. Just walk in and then pull a shotgun from under the trolley and splatter him across the room.
No Wint and Kidd are entertaining enough but for efficiency they are not up to much. I dont think any other henchmen have had Bond at their mercy so often and still failed to do the business.
Seeing it like that, it is true they are not so good, nothing outstanding at least. I will not defend DAF anyway, I really disliked the movie. That said, they still killed a lot of people in cold blood, easy targets maybe, but they still need to be killed. I wouldn't say they were much of a physical for a 00, but they were moderately reliable killers.