A science fiction franchise is only as good as its bad guys and here are two of the coolest. It might be fun to see them work together. Would their combined efforts finally take down their nemeses, or would one of them wind up double crossing the other first?
Benedict Cumberbatch makes an awesome Smaug and Sherlock, but his Khan was just "meh". There's no way to top Ricardo Montleban. Boba Fett was cooler in the original trilogy, too!
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Airdave on this.
ReplyDeleteIn my eyes the problem is how these two actors approached the duality of Khan.
The original Khan was a incredibly intelligent man with a beast in him that he kept barely leashed. Even when he acted perfectly polite and in control, I had the impression that he could pounce a tear apart everyone in the room with ease. There wasn't a full duality it was more of natural progression of Khan's personality.
Cumberbatch instead protrayed a fully bipolar character. There is a more clean cut line between the two halves of his performance that somehow ruins the final result.
Yeah, Montalban owned the character and not even a talent as versatile as Cumberbatch can't match him. FWIW, I think he did a better job than if they'd cast someone who was more a Montalban "type." That would have been really bad.
ReplyDeleteOne's a genetically enhanced warlord, the other's a bounty hunting clone. What wacky shenanigans will they get up to now? :D
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