Christopher Lloyd's performance…….
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bastasch8647 — 10 years ago(June 21, 2015 03:50 PM)
Exactly what I said a few posts above. The screenplay calls for Lloyd to be a total evil badass with no redeeming qualities, which is proven out by the fact that
He cold-bloodedly kills David, Kirk's son, with no discussion before or remorse after
and a beast who would do that is a beast, who should be shown no sympathy in life and no quarter in death combat. Kirk's last-minute attempt to extend mercy to Lloyd is perhaps the stupidest scene in the ST movie franchise (except for the total mess that was
Final Frontier
).
Lloyd is an evil renegade Klingon who will stop at nothing to acquire the ultimate weapon, yet, we are also to take him as a source of amusement, as with his stupid pet "dog" on the starship bridge, and with his "barbarian bravado" after wrestling the giant worm on the planet surface and even as trailing clouds of nobility as he tells Kirk (not aware of the fact that Kirk has one last lethal card up his sleeve), "I grant two minutes to you and your gallant crew". Now where the hell did that bit of dignity come from? It came from the losers who thought up the line. More criminal inconsistency that drags the film down to cartoon level.
He needs to be either consistenly badass or consistently buffoon. Sadly, the script wavers between the two, to the catastrophic destruction of the character's authenticity, and to the film's detriment. Nimoy hugely misjudged this bit of casting. -
bjlevine — 10 years ago(June 26, 2015 09:40 AM)
And therein lies the problem: he kills his girlfriend, he kills his gunner, he kills David. But he speaks like Rev. Jim. Maybe he could have tried to alter his voice some?
Bob the Builder and Hadji walk into a bar -
Zach126 — 10 years ago(June 30, 2015 07:39 AM)
There was nothing ineffectual about his performance whatsoever. He absolutely nailed this role & I agree with all those who say his Klingon is the one that all others should be measured by. Also, just becuz his normal voice came through at times, does not mean he didn't act well or wasn't convincing in this part.
The doctors say he has a 50-50 chance of surviving. But there's only a 10% chance of that.