The 10 best Michael Madsen movies, ranked

10 Sin City (2005)

Madsen played a small role in the granular of Frank Miller Sin City As Bob, the corrupt partner of Bruce Willis officer, John Hartigan. It is memorable, however, for the way in which he allowed the actor dressed in Duster to spit Pulpy, a dialogue at the independence of the dark in glorious black and white.

Sin City Presents a vision of the classics of hard -fitness crime by time and tribute. It also allows the public to imagine how the enigmatic Madsen could have watched in a film by Fritz Lang or Otto Preminger.

9. The eight hateful (2015)

Madsen always had a smoker voice, but it rumbled positively throughout his turn as a cowboy Joe Gage, alias “Grouch” Douglass, in The eight hatefulHis third collaboration with Tarantino.

The actor was clearly having fun, leaning hard on the naughty sides and the pretty of his mysterious traveler. The foul smile and the frog’s crib of his character are more grumpy than the knotty wood of the lodge where the film is shot.

8 Species (1995)

Science-fiction action film Species And his 1998 sequel is better than you expect, benefiting from their knotty punishment of sexuality and whole, which includes Madsen alongside Marg Helgenberger, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley.

Each experienced and distinctive artist brings a texture to Species This gives him a unique flavor in a crowded genre. Madsen, in particular, is an anchored presence, lending a naturalism and dry humor to the ridiculous history of an extraterrestrial hybrid which cannot control his libido.

In the EW review at the time, our criticism described its black ops mercenary as a “more human turn on the type of Mike hammer”, listening again to the aura of Madsen as a cook of another era.

7 The winner (1996)

In this unannounced (and deeply strange) police comedy of Replenish man Director Alex Cox, Madsen was able to play bad, funny and even sexy opposite Vincent d’Onofrio and Rebecca de Mornay.

The story of a loser who is lucky at the game, The winner Throw Madsen like Wolf, the opportunistic brother of Phillip de de Onofrio. Madsen has marked laughter while carrying their brother’s corpse, but he has also proven to be fuel for moments of intimacy with De Mornay.

It is a film that draws on its discreet threat while engaging both by tender and pleated side. A gem that is worth looking for.

6. The escapacity (1994)

Yeah, yeah, The escapacity was a bomb, a critical and commercial failure. It’s hard to redo a classic from Sam Peckinpah.

However, if there is a reason to see him again, it is for the wild tour of Madsen as an antagonist Rudy Travis, who is much higher by his ecstatic chemistry with the Costar Jennifer Tilly. (There is a scene of the pair playing with rifles and condoms which is so strangely convincing that one might think that it was improvised.)

“The getaway is probably one of the best moments when I had a photo. You know, fun, “said Madsen The Club AV In 2015. “It was a remake of a Peckinpah film, and my character was completely out of his mind, and I had Roger Donaldson at the helm. It was a very good film. I don’t think it really was released. I think it should have been a wider release. I think they should have left him a little more.”

5 Freelance (1993)

Something special about Madsen is that even when they played psychopaths, they were psychopaths with which you probably take a beer. Despite all his nags, there was a warmth that radiated from him, a sly smile that alluded to a deeper playfulness.

Madsen put it wisely in FreelanceA story successful and adapted to children on an orphan who grows up to love an orca in an amusement park in difficulty. Madsen played the child’s adoptive father, Glen, who helps save the orc of captivity. Freelance It is not really a showcase for the many Talents of Madsen, but it highlights a softer side that it has not often flexed.

“It was one of those things that balances my bad guys, you know?” Madsen said The Club AV. “Whoever thinks I’m just a bad character … Well, what would you say Freelance?“”

4 Donnie Brasco (1997)

Madsen held up against Johnny Depp and Al Pacino in Mike Newell’s Oscars Donnie Brasco,, Based on the true history of infiltration by an agent of the FBI of the Bonanno crime family in the 1970s. Madsen cost Sonny Black, the real gangster born Dominick Napolitano.

It is a paranoid performance, muscular and sometimes really frightening, with Madsen putting its imposing framework for frightening use in his scenes with the infiltrated agent of Depp.

“I guess if you wanted to choose my top five, it would be there,” said Madsen The Club AV. “It was a good film quite damn enough, and filming in New York was not bad either. When you play a character who is someone real, when you play a true story, it’s really great, because you are not pretending to build something. I wanted to dignify it. I wanted to give it as much respect as it deserved it.”

3 and 3 Thelma & Louise (1991)

Oscar by Ridley Scott Thelma & Louise is a film full of bad men. It is a surprise, then, that Madsen, a man known for playing bad men, appears as the most sympathetic male of the film.

While Jimmy Lennox, a musician wearing a torch for Louise by Susan Sarandon, Madsen was able to do some of the most moving and mercury work in his career. The scenes of the pair are incredibly well written, feeling the actors to sail in a whirlwind of anger, frustration, melancholy and love in tight and uncomfortable spaces.

2 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

Tarantino Kill Bill tells the story of the bride (Uma Thurman), a trained killer who promises to take revenge on the murderers who, by pulling her marriage, killed her husband and an unborn child. Madsen played in the second entry of the two parties as a budd, now a dead bouncer living in a trailer.

It was perhaps the novelty to see an older Madsen and wrinkled more than a decade after playing Tank dogs“Twisted M. Blonde, but fatigue and remorse Madsen have exploited while Budd cuts the bone. You have seen the damage he helped distribute, but you almost want the bride to let him take down.

“What is funny is how incredibly sympathetic he is, even if he buries Uma Alive,” said Tarantino to EW. “He does this horrible thing, but people think he is the most friendly person in the film.”

1 and 1 Tank dogs (1992)

Like Mr. Blonde, alias Vic Vega, in Tarantino Tank dogsMadsen delivered one of the most charming psychopaths ever turned. Madsen’s Suave Bank Thief, brandishing razors, is so memorable that EW previously appointed one of the best bad guys in the history of cinema and television.

Yes, Madsen obtained most of the best lines of the crime classics (“Are you going to bark all day, the little dog, or are you going to bite?”). But the actor shines above all in a scene that EW’s critic called a “Gonzo centerpiece”, Soft-Shoeing of kind nonchalance to total savagery. He finds M. Blonde to take off the ear of a sober policeman while he boogs to steal the Pop Jaunty song from the 70s of Wheels “Stuck in the Middle with you”, a song that became sadly famous in the decades that followed his re -emergence in the film.