10 Movies You Can't Remember Who The Villain Really Was
1. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
The Mission: Impossible series has done a generally solid job offering up a slate of memorable villains played by terrific actors.
From Jon Voight's shock turncoat Jim Phelps to Dougray Scott's Sean Ambrose, Philip Seymour Hoffman's Owen Davian, Sean Harris' recurring villain Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), and most recently Henry Cavill's August Walker, the franchise's rogues' gallery is an embarrassment of riches indeed.
But the fourth movie's antagonist? Not so much.
Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), better known by his codename Cobalt in the movie, is a dapper maniac with plans to start a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. Yawn.
He's really only present to provide a tacit link between the film's ludicrously entertaining set-pieces, which are mercifully fun enough to distract from the fact that Hendricks is basically fashioned out of cardboard.
That's no fault of the late Nyqvist, a terrifically talented character actor given virtually nothing to do here. Beyond his suicidal demise at the end of the movie, he's as beige and unremarkable as any villain in the series ever has been.