13. Col. Hans Landa – Inglourious Basterds
I sure love a good psycho. This charismatic bastard is most likely the best thing about this film, and that’s saying a lot because this film is damn awesome.
Christoph Waltz delivers an impeccable performance, depicting this complex and inscrutable individual. No one (not even you) can ever decipher what this extremely polite and at the same time odd character does or doesn’t know. He’s always backing his conversation partners into a corner with unsettling delicacy and subtle mockery. You can see this very clearly in this scene where he catches everybody lying through their teeth and ridicules them about it, meanwhile acting like nothing’s off.
