10 Movie Villains You Wish Got More Screen Time

1. Norman Stansfield - Leon: The Professional

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Released in 1994, Leon: The Professional is an all-time classic. Thrilling, simple, dramatic and violent, it remains one of the best movies of the '90s and the film which saw Natalie Portman become the Oscar-winning star she is today.

But as amazing as Portman and Jean Reno are in the film, there is no character who comes close to Gary Oldman's chilling, insane DEA Agent Norman Stansfield.

Whilst the film is remembered as a touching and dark story about a hitman and his protege, as soon as Stansfield comes onto the scene it becomes his show. He is charismatic, unhinged, violent, obsessed and creepy, and yet he's barely around. It may be one of Oldman's greatest performances, and given how iconic he made the character (who could ever forget the way he yells "Everyone!") it's fair to say he could have stuck around a lot longer and no one would have complained.

If fact, it might have made a great film even better.

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