Bingowings said:

Ricardo's performance is broad in the same way that the Shat's is in that film.

It's easy to lampoon but it's also effective within the kind of melodrama that TWOK is.

I watched a mostly forgotten 1968 ITV adaptation of Uncle Silas the other night.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu boffins may possibly foam at the mouth at the presentation but the uber-mannered performances and stark production dressing gave the piece more than a touch of Mervyn Peake.

Uncle Silas himself was a wonderful Palpatine like creation.

The same series had an adaptation of Dracula with Denholm Elliott in the title role, which in my opinion was utter bobbins.

I'm not sure if that's because I'm more in love with the source material so I'm less willing to cut it some slack or not but for me both adaptations could be described as ham dishes but it was the quality of the ham that made me enjoy Uncle Silas (ITV 1968 stylee).

The same can be said about Shat Vs Montalban in TWOK.

Sure it's ham but it's ham with such character and taste that who cares if it's Kosher or not?

There was no taste to Montalban's hamming in Wrath. Shatner's hamming in Wrath was inept acting but tolerable, if still damaging. Montalban's was revolting. And the presence of such hamming from the two of them certainly brings down the film. A guy screaming "Khaaaaaan!" like that does nothing to improve the credibility of a movie. Nor does such a leeringly overblown performance as Montalban's. It doesn't convince. The movie was done ineptly in a number of other ways too. I have trouble sitting through it. Though it is more tolerable than the first movie, which is completely unwatchable.