12 Awesome Villains In Otherwise Terrible Movies

6. Renard - The World Is Not Enough

By the time Pierce Brosnan left the Bond franchise, it had lost its way badly. His final entry The World Is Not Enough was bloated, silly and had no real idea what it took to be a good Bond movie: instead it feels like an exercise in ticking off cliches.

But in amongst the dross, Robert Carlyle's Renard is a comparatively towering success. His gimmick of not feeling pain is perfect for a Bond villain and so too is the ticking timebomb of the bullet in his brain set to kill him. They're just about enough to help hide the fact that he has precisely no motivations to be evil and if it weren't for the film's infuriating insistence on making Elektra King the real villain, he could have been golden.

The biggest problem for Renard - like The Dark Knight Rises' Bane - is that the film is so wrong-headed that it doesn't really know how to give him a pay-off so he ends up being an elevated henchman. He was WAY more interesting than that and he deserved a hell of a lot more from the film.