1. Johnny Utah - Point Break
Johnny Utah has to be one of the worst movie heroes of all time, and not just because he's played by Keanu Reeves. If you haven't seen
Point Break, the story concerns an FBI agent named Johnny Utah who goes undercover as a member of a surfer trope, led by a guy calling himself Bodhi, because those are the sort of names that surfers have. Utah thinks that these surfers are actually bank robbers, and he's totally right about that. So far, so good, FBI agent. But then it all goes downhill, because Johnny Utah seems to exist entirely as a machine for ruining everything unnecessarily. The fact that he even gets involved in the first place means that dozens of people die for no reason in this movie. Seriously. The bank robbers never kill anybody, by the way, because they're just "hippies screwing with the system, man," though Johnny makes so many ill-judged decisions throughout
Point Break that it's astonishing that he ever graduated from FBI academy at one time in his life. Johnny's worst crime, though, takes place during the a scene when he mistakenly accuses another group of being the bank robbers because he's become too enamoured with his new friends, and ruins a huge, ongoing investigation into a massive drug ring - by getting everyone involved
shot to death. Nice work, you doofus. In the end, Johnny's adventure has resulted in a lot of his friends, associates and random people getting killed. He finishes the movie by throwing his badge into the ocean, once Bodhi is dead, suggesting he's had enough. I think you were getting fired anyway, pal. Still, the fact that he emerges "triumphant" is relative mind-blowing, given the stench of overwhelming failure that seems to follow the guy 'round at work.
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