Most action and thriller movies has a good guy we love and a bad guy we dislike, but have ever you watched a movie where you’ve felt sympathy or respect for the bad guy?

We have done some research of who those bad guys can be, and here is the outcome; 10 bad-ass we actually liked.



10. Magneto from X Men played by Ian McKellen. The movie’s central enemy, a mutant that controls magnetism. They used several make up tricks to make McKellen appear younger so he would fit better for the part.



9. Simon Phoenix from Demolition Man played by Wesley Snipes. A violent criminal that re-awakes in year 2032 after being cryogenically frozen. He kills everybody that’s in his way. The role was originally offered to Jackie Chan, luckily they changed their minds, and Wesley’s charisma is something we remembered from this action movie.



8. Alonzo Harris from Training Day played by Denzel Washington. A highly decorated LAPD narcotics officer that is actually more dangerous than the ones he and his partner should arrest for drug dealing. For this role Denzel won the award for “Best Bad Guy” at MTV Movie Awards.



7. Cyrus ‘Cyrus The Virus’ Grissom from Con Air played by John Malkovich. An intelligent criminal who was mainly in charge of taking over the plane full of dangerous cons. Cyrus the Virus has spent 25 years of his 39 years in prison for kidnapping, robbery, extortion and murder. It was even said that he “killed more people than cancer”. He caused 3 riots, escaped prison twice and murdered 11 prisoners.



6. Agent Smith from Matrix played by Hugo Weaving. The central antagonist of Neo, and a program of Matrix. Agent Smith is pitiless, single-minded, and only thing he cares about is conformity and inevitability. He also has a strong hatred of humans and their weakness of the flesh, which he compares to a virus. For many people Agent Smith is more bad-ass than Neo himself.



5. Darth Vader from Star Wars played physically by David Prowse. His voice is from James Earl Jones though. Dark Lord of the Sith and a master of the dark side. For decades he has been known as a villain as well as a great part of pop culture. “Luke, I am your father”.



4. Terminator from Terminator 1 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. A cyborg assassin programmed to kill Sarah Connor which needs to be exterminated because the Terminator is a machine that is programmed to kill what’s left of the human race. Schwazzie was major bad-ass in this movie, especially in second part when he plays a good Terminator.



3. Joker from The Dark Knight played by Heath Ledger. A cruel criminal that will do anything to destroy Batman. He has a horrible scar shaped as a bent smile which he pairs up with the well-known phrase: “Why so serious?” Heath Ledger was afraid he wouldn’t act good enough, but you can say that he interpreted Joker’s behavior in an excellent way. He definitely left the best impression in the entire movie.



2. Vincent and Jules from Pulp Fiction played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. Two assassins that is part of a story of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase. Although they are cold blooded murderers you gotta love them for their dialogs and humor.



1. Hannibal Lecter from Silence of The Lambs played by Anthony Hopkins. A brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. Throughout the whole movie he is involving himself with this female FBI cadet that needs his help to find another psychopath serial killer that skins his victim. The movie contains some genuinely shocking moments that twists your stomach. Hannibal was chosen by the American Film Institute as the “Number 1 Movie Villain”. Also the movie’s well-known poster with the moth on Jodie Foster’s mouth has a hidden message.

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