Because more often than not, you'll realize that his genius scheme would have fallen apart all on its own. What do we mean? Well...

Movie villains, even the ones portrayed as master criminal geniuses, usually spend the movie making incredibly stupid mistakes ( accidental or otherwise ). So you can almost make a game out of it: The second time you watch any movie involving a supposed criminal mastermind, just imagine how his plan would have gone had the hero not showed up at all.

6 Die Hard -- Hans Gruber's Escape Plan is Terribly Inadequate

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The scheme:

Hans Gruber and his gang of sweater-wearing European dance models lay siege to Nakatomi Plaza, posing as terrorists to conceal their true purpose, which is to steal $640 million in bearer bonds from the building's vault. Once the vault is cracked, Hans plans to send all of the hostages to the roof and blow them up, anticipating that the resulting pile of bodies will be too dense for the authorities to discover that his own corpse isn't among them.

Then, Hans and his gang intend to load the bearer bonds into a fake ambulance, blending into the chaos of emergency vehicles and allowing them to escape undetected.



"I almost brought a school bus, but what idiot would try to flee a robbery in one of those?"

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But wait a second ...

Every single step of Hans' escape plan is so terribly flawed that, had Bruce Willis not kicked him through a 40th story window, he and his henchmen would have been arrested before their ambulance even made it to the first stoplight.

First of all, Hans begins the evening with 13 henchmen. Take another look at their escape van:



"Some lap sitting will be necessary."

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How the hell is he planning on fitting 13 grown men in that thing? Let alone the stacks of bearer bonds they came to collect, which, we are shown, require several duffel bags and a hand cart to transport:



"Nobody ate this morning, right?"

There's also the matter of actually exiting the parking garage. We see Hans and his men lock the gates, which is what traps Argyle the limo driver inside for the entire movie. Argyle only gets out because he finally decides to crash his limo into one of the exits: