Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

As a Bond villain, there's often a lot of pressure to steal the show in all the right ways. It's important to maintain the balance between theatricality and believability. Between evilness and entertainment. For every Auric Goldfinger, there's a Gustav Graves.

Mads Mikkelsen's criminal mastermind Le Chiffre had an even larger load to carry than most - tasked with centring the bulk of antagonism throughout Casino Royale, a 007 reboot that needed to succeed. Fortunately, Le Chiffre's unnerving, charismatic presence was a massive part of the film's success.

One of the ways the character managed to pull it off was by making sure none of his own henchmen stole the spotlight. That's why a bald-headed nonentity like Kratt was under Le Chiffre's direct employ.

It's an ingenious tactic expertly utilised - ensuring that there's never any danger of audience eyes wandering away from Le Chiffre and onto the help. You'd be hard-pressed to remember anything Kratt does, let alone says. Indeed, Kratt does next to nothing, and that's just the way Le Chiffre likes it.

From a production point of view, however, Kratt is the kind of fellow you'd hope the writers were trying to top in the subsequent film, Quantum of Solace - that they somehow managed to fail says a lot. Kratt wasn't exactly the highest bar to reach.