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Welcome to watch mojo And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 most likable action movie villains.

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How fun for this list will 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.

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Number 10 Cyrus the virus.

Con air 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 onboard.

Welcome to con Air.

Somehow Malkovich's eccentric mannerisms in line delivery makes this criminal all the more memorable.

Guard Falzon 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 anytime he's out of frame you want to see him come back turning con air into a nineties classic Cyrus is 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 uh often lamented facts of penal lore.

Number nine.

Deckard shaw, furious seven.

Jason Statham's natural star power usually puts him in the hero or antihero category, but in furious Seven he spreads his villain wings risk now little brother, I want to sell you one.

Let's go.

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 spinoffs, given his gratifying presence throughout Furious seven.

This is all I want.

It doesn't mean number eight, 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.

Are you a henchman?

No, I want to go as far as lucky.

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 mistake?

You forgot to reload the damn guns.

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 where I started.

What?

Trust me with a wink to the camera, this batty is all the more entertaining for his unique and knowing whit!

Number seven, 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.

Now 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 digital loyalty and 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, Vincent 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.

Do I get if you're wrong, free ride, you get an apology so good.

You get a date with the hit man, 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, killed No, I shot him bullets in the fall, killed him.

Playing against type.

Cruise 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 nineties villains.

This is about money to me, which I will collect $3.7 million.

It's my nest egg, Jack at my age, you gotta 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.

Pain 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, plan number four, Body point break surfer bro, body spends most of 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 in 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 villains Cerf one last time.

Much like the avenues leading man, the audience can't help but fall under bodies spell during point break.

Look at it, this is a 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 ex.

M I six 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 cyanide.

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 bond nemesis.

Number two Castor Troy Faceoff and one of the most bizarre ideas in movie history.

Faceoff features a very literal plot and two actors having the time of their lives.

You know this is fabulous work, This is, this is oh bravo nicolas cage is Castor 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.

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 managed 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 Faceoff.

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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 in negotiable bearer bonds 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 hell 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 McClane 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 and an iconic moment of meta acting from Rickman.

Please God no, you're one of them.

You're one of them.

Whether he's interrogating party guests or fooling john McClane, the Diehard batty remains one of the most likable action movie villains ever.

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