Again, he plays the foil to the much more nefarious protagonist, but he feels like a villain as the story is told through Patrick Bateman's ( Christian Bale) eyes. Like with Boondock Saints, American Psycho finds Dafoe cast across from a criminal as NYPD Detective Donald Kimball. Also, the payoff that comes with his character's development, which will not be spoiled here, is highly satisfying. He is a fantastic choice for a villain, making you sometimes hopeful that he succeeds and the eponymous Saints angelic crime-spree will end. He toils with a major theme in the film, the blurred lines between good and evil. Some fantastic moments include his visit with a priest at the confession booth, internalized homophobia directed at his lovers or patrons at his favorite gay bar, and his fieldwork, which consists of listening to classical music while attempting to recreate crime scenes in his head.
Dafoe plays FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker, tasked with finding the vigilante responsible for a string of murders.
Boondock Saints is a hilarious action-packed film in which brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus take the law into their own hands, portrayed by Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus.
While more of an anti-hero than a true villain, this role deserves a mention because Dafoe does a great job as a foil to the protagonists, who are anti-heroes themselves.
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