2012 Year in Review: Top Movie Villains

2012 was a pretty great year for movies of all kinds: blockbusters, indies, and all points between. It was a particularly good year for villains. Here are five of the baddest baddies of 2012.

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4.The Zec - Werner Herzog, 'Jack Reacher' Best known for two things -- his classic resumé as a film director and being a little, shall we say, eccentric -- Werner Herzog also occasionally acts, and Tom Cruise's latest, "Jack Reacher," benefits greatly from Herzog's strange, spooky performance as the mysterious Zec.
4.The Zec - Werner Herzog, 'Jack Reacher' Best known for two things -- his classic resumé as a film director and being a little, shall we say, eccentric -- Werner Herzog also occasionally acts, and Tom Cruise's latest, "Jack Reacher," benefits greatly from Herzog's strange, spooky performance as the mysterious Zec.