Top 10 Movie Villains

In no particular order

1. Agent Smith - Matrix Trilogy (Hugo Weaving): One of the coolest villains we've had over the past few years. I loved how he would fix his suit during a fight scene. Don't think he's a great movie villain? What the movie again, you'll see how everyone is completely terrified of him.
Villainous Moment: When the agents have Morpheus captured, Smith gives his speech and says, "I can taste your stink and every time I do, I feel that I've somehow been infected by it."

2. Dr. Hannibal Lecter – Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins): Creepy is not the word to describe him. I'm not sure if there is even one word that sums up this character. Was what he said scary, or how he said it. You start to kind of like him because he's helping Clarice solve the murders………….then you see him kill someone and you say, "Oh that's they have that mask on his face."
Villainous Moment: Killing the guard then escaping from the cell pretending to be the mangled guard by putting the dead guard's skin on his face. Great costume!

3. Bishop – Juice (Tupac Shakur): One of the first movies of its genre has one of the best characters in it. This guy was crazy! He robbed a store, shot his best friend, showed up at his friend's funerals to pay his respects, intimidated his other friends, shot Radamen, told everyone Q was responsible, and shot Steels. Did I mention he was only high school? One of my favorite scenes is Bishops confrontation with Q at school. He closes his locker and Bishop is standing right there. Q once again calls Bishop crazy. The exchange ends with Bishop saying, "You remember that (expletive). I'm the one you need to be looking out for……..potna!
Villainous Moment: Bishop is trying to kill Q (the only witness left) as Q tries to get away, they both cram into an elevator. What does Bishop do? Pull out his gun and shoot in a crowded elevator.

4. Commodus – Gladiator (Joaquin Phoenix): I remember hating this character as I watched the movie, after the movie, and when I told people about the movie. He was like a spoiled brat. That kid who would take his ball and go home, only his ball happened to be all of Rome. There was also that awkwardness with him and his sister. Sort of creepy if you ask me.
Villainous Moment: The sequence when he kills Marcus Aurelius after he tells him that Maximus will be the leader of Rome, then proceeds to tell everyone that his father passed in his sleep, calls Maximums a trader and has his family killed. All that in the first half hour.

5. Anton Chigurh – No Country for Old Men (Javier Bardem): This Oscar Award winning performance was good. I like to see villains win more Oscars. I know I'm not the only one who felt like something bad was going to happen every time Anton showed up on screen. You never knew what was really driving him, just that he would shoot anything/anybody in his way.
Villainous Moment: He shot a ton of people in the film, but the scene that got me was the old man at the gas station. I knew that if he didn't get the coin flip right, he was a dead man. The scary part was that the old man had no idea.

6. Hedra "Hedy" Carlson – Single White Female (Jennifer Jason Leigh): I have a friend, who has a friend, who sort of reminds us of this character. This is a clear example of when friendships go bad. I always seem to reference this character when a female friend has some stalker friend issues. People can point to this movie and say, "That's why I don't have friends". They'd have a very good point.
Villainous Moment: The scene at the hair salon when she walks down the steps with the exact hairstyle as Allison is out of control. It's both funny and scary……….sort of how clowns for some people. It would be wrong not to mention the scene where she sleeps with the boyfriend pretending to be Allison.

7. Han – Enter The Dragon (Kien Shih): I loved this character as a kid. I remember my uncle having these movie posters in his room. Han always looked mad in the film. To me he is the underrated villain. He had a handicap (one of his hands was missing) that he turned into a weapon with detachable hands. My favorite being the bear claw he used to fight Lee in the final scene. Han was able to host a martial arts tournament to the death, and have slaves underground on the same island. He gets points for multi-tasking his evil plans.
Villainous Moment: Killing Williams with one hand after he thought he was out of his room past curfew. Who gives a grown man a curfew? That's bull Mr. Han Man!

8. Annie Wilkes – Misery (Kathy Bates): Underneath all the nasty stuff, she's just an obsessed fan who wants to see one of her favorite characters brought back to life. That's not so bad right? That's how I felt when they killed off Stringer Bell on The Wire. Except for the fact that she goes overboard in proving her point. A simple letter to the editor might have been sufficient.
Villainous Moment: The scene where she hobbles Paul so that he can't escape. What happened to handcuffs? It is one thing to show her swing the hammer, but it's another thing to show his ankles collapse like they did. I still can't watch that scene.

9. The Terminator – Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) – One of the main reasons I'm against cybernetic technology is this movie. He shows no emotion through the whole movie. He wasn't even upset when he couldn't get to his target. He just kept going and going like an evil Energizer Bunny. The Terminator is definition of a one-man wrecking crew. One of the most relentless bad guys we've had in cinema.
Villainous Moment: The famous line "I'll be back." I like how people say that phrase all the time. I wonder if they know that in the context of the movie, he was talking to a police officer. When he came "back" he shot everyone in the police station. That was in the day of cinema where everything bad seemed to happen in California, now it's New York. Good times for the Govenator.

10. Alonzo – Training Day (Denzel Washington): My mom LOVES Denzel. My mom also hates this movie and refuses to watch it. She even despises the fact that he won an Oscar for his performance. This movie came out right after Remember the Titans. For some reason I kept waiting for Alonzo to do something good. To the delight of movie fans everywhere, it never happened. The more I watch the movie, the more I realize how cold blooded he was. The fact that they mention he had a family at the end always cracks me up.
Villainous Moment: I wasn't sure he was a bad guy UNTIL he left Detective Hoyt in that house for dead. I remember thinking, "He's going to come back and get him." He also tells Hoyt "To be a truly effective, a good narcotics agent must know and love narcotic. In fact, a good narcotics agent should have narcotics in his blood."