2. Christopher Walken - A View To A Kill
Another Bond movie with very little to love (despite it being included in our
list of underrated Bond movies), it does have a handful of good things about it, plus some pretty mediocre performances. But Christopher Walken is the saving grace, playing the ruthless industrialist Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley. Like Christoph Waltz in the above entry, he starts off as a cool, collected fellow who's scheming while appearing to those outside to be just a normal businessman. Until near the climax, when he sees all his work coming undone, at which point he snaps, and faces off against Bond in a dramatic conclusion on an airship. Walken plays both sides to his character equally well, and at some points single-handedly carries the film.