Kong: Skull Island - 21 WTF Moments

17. The Name's Bond... I Mean Conrad, James Conrad

Tom Hiddleston's opening scene - in which he plays pool and then fights a couple of locals because people with foreign voices are always untrustworthy and want to renege on their debts - is lifted straight out of a poor Bond film. And it's just one example from a litany of cliches that frame his character - his absent father, his RAF lighter (which might as well read MacGuffin on its side), his weird affinity with Kong...

He's presented immediately as this incredible bad-ass, but then the rest of his actions comically fail to live up to that billing. He's turned into a passenger, up until the moment the plot needs him to turn against Packard.

Admittedly, the scene in which he chops down pteranadons with a samurai sword is amazing, but it's very hard not to think of him as a Bond clone with his wings clipped. Particularly as he might be the worst tracker in the history of tracking.