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and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 most likable action movie
villains that's a bingo
is that the way you say that's a bingo
you just say bingo
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how fun for this list we'll be looking
at baddies from action films that we
couldn't help but like whether they were
oddly charming or misunderstood these
antagonists made us question our loyalty
to the hero just to be safe here's a
spoiler warning did we miss your
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number 10 cyrus the virus
conair john malkovich brings gravitas to
any role especially his villainous wants
cyrus the virus is no different leading
a plane full of prisoners in a hijacking
ladies and gentlemen this is your
captain speaking
i have the only gun on board
welcome to conair somehow malkovich's
eccentric mannerisms and line delivery
makes this criminal all the more
memorable guard falzon
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what
oh stewardess stewardess
what's the in-flight movie today even in
a cast full of great character actors
and a-list stars the performer steals
scenes with his oddly enticing demeanor
he's likable in a way that's hard to pin
down but any time he's out of frame you
want to see him come back turning conair
into a 90's classic cyrus's one of a
kind intensity makes for a curiously
engaging action movie villain well it's
not difficult to surmise how nathan here
feels about killing guards and my own
proclivities are
well known and often lamented facts of
penal lore number 9. deckard shaw
furious 7. jason statham's natural star
power usually puts him in the hero or
anti-hero category but in furious 7 he
spreads his villain wings risk now
little brother
wanna sell you one last skull
the performer manages to bring his rough
and tumble personality to the fast and
furious franchise while still being
likable as deckard shaw the actor fuses
his natural humor with a gruff
physicality that keeps the audience on
edge considering that shaw is only
getting revenge for his brother it's
hard not to empathize on some level with
his inner turmoil never should have
messed with a man's family i told your
brother the same thing
his tough guy persona gives way to a
host of fun moments including a finale
where he battles vin diesel it's no
wonder that statham was invited back for
sequels and spin-offs given his
gratifying presence throughout furious
7. this is it
this is all i want
it doesn't matter
number 8 benedict last action hero
perhaps best known for his role on game
of thrones charles dance played a series
of baddies in his first decades on
screen sir
are you a henchman
no i only go as far as lackey last
action hero showcases him at his best
not only does the tongue-in-cheek bad
guy part give him room to stretch his
comedic chops it also gives the actor
the ability to subvert movie villain
tropes did you make a movie mistake
you forgot to reload the damn gun
no jack
i just left one chamber empty whereas a
standard villain might fall into obvious
pitfalls benedict knows that he
shouldn't talk too long or give away his
sinister plans if i did a 360 i'd go
completely around and end up back when i
started
what
trust me
with a wing to the camera this baddie is
all the more entertaining for his unique
and knowing wit
number 7. simon skinner hot fuzz
hot fuzz takes place in a small english
town where nothing much happens this
makes it all the more outrageous when
simon skinner and other polite
townspeople commit a series of grisly
murders timothy dalton's cheery exterior
makes for several funny moments nonsense
i'm sure if we bashed your head in
all sorts of secrets would come tumbling
out it's especially fun to see dalton
outside his usual roles in british
dramas opting instead to play a
comically upbeat supermarket manager
with a deadly secret all too many have
defected to the big mega mart in buford
abbey may their heads be struck from
their shoulders for such disloyalty in a
stroke of genius casting director edgar
wright brilliantly positions the
esteemed performer as a lovable man even
after revealing his evil ways simon
skinner i believe you've met oh we're
already firm friends
number six
collateral vincent's appeal owes a lot
to tom cruise's charisma but it also
comes from the rapport he builds with
taxi driver max what do i get if you're
wrong free ride you get an apology i
already offered my free ride today day
you get a date with it the hitman gets
in max's cab with a list of names to
cross off the killer is an enthralling
right watch from his first sentence
even as his victims pile up it's the
villain that keeps us glued to the
screen you killed him
no i shot him bullets in the fall killed
him playing against type cruz uses all
the tricks he learned and funnels them
into an inventive and manipulative role
it's a genius bit of casting that helped
make michael mann's thriller a great
film someday someday my dream will come
one night you'll wake up and you'll
discover it never happened
number five howard payne speed when
dennis hopper appears in a film good or
bad you know you're in for a wild ride
speed is no different with the actor
giving audiences one of the most
engaging and unpredictable 90s villains
this is about money to me which i will
collect
3.7 million dollars
it's my nest egg jack at my age you've
got to think ahead as former bomb squad
officer howard payne he holds a bus
hostage with an elaborate bomb mechanism
even though he's the baddie he's one of
the best parts of the film at the climax
payne lures the heroes to a subway and
dishes out another round of exciting
one-liners be prepared
it's the boy scout marching song as with
any hopper performance the legend
delivers a steady stream of eccentric
behavior odd humor and compelling pathos
i'm the guy with a plan because i'm
smart
i'm smarter than you
number four bodhi point break surfer bro
bodhi spends most a point break trying
to seduce fbi agent johnny utah to the
dark side they only live to get radical
they don't have any real understanding
of the sea so they'll never get the
spiritual side of it it speaks to the
magnetism of patrick swayze that utah
lets the bank robber go free multiple
times even though his character heads a
criminal gang the actor brings a dose of
believable humanity to the part we stand
for something
to those dead souls inching along the
freeways and their metal coffins we show
them that the human spirit is still
alive using his track record playing
heroes he carries over his likability
and vulnerability into this darker role
in the end utah makes the choice to let
the athletic villain surf one last time
much like kyanu's leading man the
audience can't help but fall under
bodhi's spell during point break look at
it the once in a lifetime opportunity
man
just let me go out there let me get one
wave before you take me one wave number
three raul silva skyfall in skyfall
javier bardem plays a disgruntled xmi6
agent with a bone to pick with his
former employer you have changed their
nature
the two survivors
this is what she made us raul silva
wants his revenge feeling betrayed by
the intelligence agency and hoping to
spread the pain around bardem plays the
cyber terrorists as both flamboyant and
hypnotic in every scene while he's
definitely misguided there's a tragic
heir to his corrupted soul do you know
what it does to you
hydrogen's clean
his iconic introduction allows the
villain to deliver a moving and ominous
monologue instantly stealing the show
even in the electric climax silva has a
presence that makes for a magnetic and
captivating von nemesis
number two
castor troy
face off and one of the most bizarre
ideas in movie history face-off features
a very literal plot and two actors
having the time of their lives you know
this is fabulous work this is oh
bravo
nicholas cage's caster troy begins as
one of the wilder and loudest
performances of his career after the
titular face swap john travolta plays
troy in an equally crazy performance got
it's like looking in a mirror only
not
rarely do two actors get to share the
same part in a film but both leads
manage to pull it off the villain takes
firm control over the film and steals
the show with double the insanity the
unstable antagonist shines throughout
face off
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number one hans gruber die hard die hard
wasn't just a star-making turn for bruce
willis it also gave alan rickman his
screen debut as hans gruber but i need
the code key
because i am interested in the 640
million dollars in negotiable bearer
bombs that you have locked in your vault
taking nakatomi plaza hostage the
criminal mastermind asserts himself as
deliciously evil sure he's a bad guy but
there's rarely been a movie heel as
endlessly fun to watch as gruber with an
awesome accent and a signature scowl
it's difficult to not find something
lovable about the man still the cowboy
mr mclean americans all alike well this
time john wayne does not walk off into
the sunset with grace kelly the
diabolical antagonist even convinces the
unaware hero that he's innocent in an
iconic moment of meta acting from
rickman please god know you're one of
them aren't you you're one of them
whether he's interrogating party guests
or fooling john mclean the die hard
baddie remains one of the most likable
action movie villains ever do you agree
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