2. Renard
Robert Carlyle should have made for an interesting Bond villain, given his clear knack for playing psychopaths, as evidenced by his manic turn as Begbie in Danny Boyles classic, Trainspotting. However, he gets one of the blandest villains to date to work with, whose plan to explode a nuclear sub in the Caspian Sea, such that it will stop oil shipments is woefully underwhelming, and whose character is utterly piecemeal. In fact, theres the profound feeling watching it that Sophie Marceaus Elektra King should have been bumped to main villain, given that Renard is essentially in her thrall anyway; she has a far more pronounced (and sexy) screen presence that could have made her another femme to be reckoned with in the vein of Rosa Klebb. Instead, Carlyle is left to chew the scenery, through some awkward fight scenes, and a completely underwhelming finale which does his already scant character no justice whatsoever.