8 Movie Villains Whose Logic Makes No Sense
5. XXx - Yorgi Makes A Spy A Chief Lieutenant
Extreme sports daredevil and all around cool guy Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is recruited by the NSA to track down and retrieve the chemical weapon "Silent Night", obtained by the radical Russian terrorist group Anarchy 99;
If that premise sounds like the blurb on the back of a forgettable PS2 game, it's because the early 2000's was out of it's Relentless fuelled mind, and a rollerblading James Bond was what fans of Papa Roach and Alien Ant Farm desperately craved at the time.
With Xander Cage as the movie's radical hero, his equally radical (but not in a cool way) enemy came in form of Anarchy 99 leader Yorgi (Marton Csokas), a flat-packed movie villain with chaos-driven ideals and a healthy roster of quirky henchmen.
One of the said henchmen comes in form of sexy and sultry Yelena (Asia Argento), whose relationship with Xander inevitably trails into romantic. Midway through the film, it's revealed Yelena is a Russian spy sent undercover to infiltrate Anarchy 99.
If that twist didn't blow off audience' socks, imagine their surprise when Yorgi reveals he knew Yelena was a spy. Had Xander's arrival blown Yelena's cover, it would have made sense, but Yorgi's boast that he ALWAYS knew of Yelena's betrayal implies that he let her close to his inner circle of anarchists for quiet some time, and would have let her wander round his tacky mansion until the very end.
For someone as calculated and merciless as Yorgi, he really should have cleaned up house long ago and got rid of the traitors. Smash the system obviously, but maybe have a bit of due diligence Yorgi.