10 More Dumbest Villain Plans In Movies
Heath Ledger's Joker these guys ain't!
A movie is only as good as its villain.
There's a lot of truth in that common saying. Sure, some movies have still been great despite having underwhelming villains - Logan, Star Trek (2009), Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, District 9, several MCU and James Bond flicks - but a villain is a vital part of the machine nonetheless, and so is their villainous scheme.
It's crucial to get their evil scheme right, for a poorly thought-out villainous plan can completely undermine their credibility as an antagonist. Hell, it can even damage the film's story as a whole.
Unfortunately, the following 10 movies didn't get the memo, as all of their villains had plans that were jarringly stupid in a number of different ways. Some were driven by overly petty motivations, some relied too much on improbable coincidences, and others were simply too convoluted to take seriously, but all of them were distractingly silly to the point that they'll leave everyone face-palming like Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
And the most ridiculous thing of all? These nonsensical plans almost worked too! In fact, a couple of them even succeeded outright...
10. Kang Yeonsak - Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus has Fallen is one of the better Die Hard knock-offs out there, and one of the key reasons for its success was arguably its antagonists - a brutal and ultra-violent group of North Korean terrorists led by the fearsome Kang Yeonsak (Rick Yune). They plan to extract nuclear codes from President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and several of his staff, and then turn America into a nuclear wasteland.
For the most part, these guys were an effective and intimidating group of villains, but there was one part of their plan that was distractingly illogical. During the initial attack on the White House, which occurs while the South Korean Prime Minister is visiting, the President is taken into a bunker with his staff and he allows the South Koreans to come in too. Unfortunately, he's just locked himself in a bunker with Kang (disguised as a ministerial aide) and several of his allies.
It's evident that the terrorists' plan hinged on them being let into the bunker, which wasn't very bright of them. They shouldn't have been taken down at all, and basing the success of their plan over whether or not the President or his staff would be reckless enough to break protocol in this way was a distractingly foolish move for an otherwise competent group of terrorists.