Spectre: 5 Awesome Things (And 8 That Sucked) In The New James Bond

3. Batista Provides The Best Action

After Guardians Of The Galaxy, it wasn't a case of "Is Dave Bautista (Batista to his WWE fans) going to be good?", but rather "How good is he going to be?" Answer: he's very good. And not in the film nearly as much as he should be. The problem with a lot of the action in Spectre is that it's rather more CGI-reliant than its immediate predecessor. The pre-credits action scene is especially robbed of weight and excitement as a result of notable CG textures and uncanny physics. That's what make the action scenes with Batista so impressive. He doesn't need computers. He just bloody heavy. The former WWE Champion plays Mr Hinx, an assassin of few words and much beard, who is tasked with eliminating Bond using only a small cannon of a handgun and the gigantic bags of bricks he calls fists. The best action scene in the film, bar none, is a physical encounter between Bond and Hinx on a train, which manages to out-perform the train fight in From Russia With Love (no mean feat). Heavy, crunchy and largely CGI-free, the scene relies on two things, the size of Batista, and also, the colossal size of Batista.