Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best
53. Henry Gupta (Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997)
Only one film after GoldenEye’s hacker extraordinaire Boris Grishenko, we get yet another smarmy tech-whiz - though the good news is that we don't have to see him insufferably tapping away at keyboards.
The bad news is that Gupta seems to be Carver’s one-stop IT support guy in every single facet, tasked with monitoring the surveillance sound files at Carver's media gatherings. Carver probably calls him up when he’s forgotten one of his passwords, or can’t figure out how to undo a typo when writing his nefarious headlines.
Despite such tedious duties, Gupta is supposedly the bee's knees when it comes to IT infamy, flagged by MI6 as the apparent inventor of techno terrorism. His main role in the plot is to use a fancy encoder to intercept the GPS signal on a British warship, before stealing a missile and programming it to blow up Beijing.
In the end, Carver decides this is all that Gupta's good for - once he's confirmed that the missile is ready to go, Carver swiftly shoots him dead. You’d think he might have kept the guy around to lend a hand next time his phone isn’t charging or something.
Could Gupta beat Grishenko in an evil hacking contest? No one will ever know.