10 Movies That Really Needed A Better Villain

The first four movies in the Die Hard franchise all did a good-to-incredible job with their villains, played respectively by Alan Rickman (amazing), William Sadler (hilarious), Jeremy Irons (delicious), and Timothy Olyphant (badass).

But when it came to the execrable fifth film, A Good Day to Die Hard, virtually no effort at all was made to deliver anything more than the sort of generic Eurotrash villain you'd expect to see in a Taken movie.

The ultimate antagonist is eventually revealed to be terrorist Yuri Komarov (Sebastian Koch), though much of the film is dominated by his daughter Irina (Yulia Snigir) and the scenery-chewing henchman Alik (Radivoje Bukvić).

And yet, not a single one of them is likely to stick in the viewer's brain beyond the movie's end credits, because neither the writing nor the performances are in any way memorable.

Ultimately the lousy quality of the bad guys is pretty damn emblematic of how utterly unfussed and unremarkable the entire movie itself is.