Cinema's Hottest Bad Guys
Denzel, Tupac and more villains we hate to love.
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Cinema's Hottest Bad Guys - Everybody loves a good villain, but when the bad guy in the movie is also the hottest thing on the screen, it sometimes leaves us rooting for them more than we should. In honor of Idris Elba bringing the bad boy heat in No Good Deed this Friday, here's our list of the most smoldering evil-doers in movies, from Denzel to Tupac. (Photos from left: Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Photo By Photos from left: Warner Bros. Pictures
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Wesley Snipes in New Jack City - Even Nino's fly ensembles, gold chains and Wayfarers couldn't distract us from the fact that the drug-dealing character was one of the most ruthless villains we've seen on screen. Snipes played the crime boss to cool perfection, drawing us into his world only to — metaphorically, at least — pump us full of bullets. (Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures)
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Vin Diesel in Pitch Black - As prison escapee Richard Riddick in this action/sci-fi flick, Diesel's gift was his ability to see in the dark. To anyone watching the film, however, his biggest assets were obviously those chiseled muscles and that smooth, gravelly voice. (Photo: Universal Pictures)
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Blair Underwood in Madea's Family Reunion - It wasn't easy to see the typically smooth, charming and put together Underwood play abusive fiancé Carlos in this Tyler Perry classic, but the actor so effectively portrays a hateful and controlling bad guy that we momentarily forgot he's one of the best looking actors in the business. (Photo: Lions Gate Films)
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Denzel Washington in Training Day - Does it get any better — or, should we say, worse — than Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day? We'd be hard-pressed to find a character who is so bad to the bone, that we enjoy watching more. Washington uses a strange kind of seduction to bring us over to the dark side in Antoine Fuqua's cop corruption drama. Often, he had us forgetting that he was the bad guy. (Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures)
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