Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

Mr Kil's screentime begins with 007 remarking "There's a name to die for" - and things don't improve from there.

Poor Mr Kil had heard every bad joke under the sun about his name long before he rose to the position where he had to introduce himself to the notoriously unsympathetic James Bond, of all people.

That's not all, though. Remember that stone-cold classic sequence in Goldfinger where Bond has to talk his way out of certain death with a laser drifting menacingly towards his groin? It's almost dripping with suspense as 007 is forced to use his brains to escape the cruellest of executions by an unforgettable villain. Die Another Day remembers it, too.

Here, however, in an atrocious "homage", Mr Kil is the beneficiary of a laser through the face. Take out the suspense, take out the tension, take out the wit, sophistication, bluffing, and double-bluffing between two intellectual superiors. Instead, here's a silly scuffle with CGI lasers pew-pewing all over the room before they shoot the baddie in the back of the head.

In all, the man with a name purely invented as a punchline for one line of dialogue has a terrible time in a terrible film. Let's face it, he never had a chance.