The 10 Most Stylish Badasses in Movies

This weekend sees the release of the new action film, Killer Elite. The movie is based on a controversial best-seller, but the real hook is that it boasts an all-star lineup of actors with a record for playing straight-up badasses. Featuring the likes of Jason Statham and Robert De Niro, Killer Elite got us thinking of theirs and others' past memorable roles as some of American cinema's most swagged out badasses. Keep reading to see The 10 Most Memorable Badasses in Movies.

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Jason Statham's now iconic Transporter character keeps his fresh code limited to a simple driver's suit. Fresh is fresh though. Bonus points for dedication: the guy even pauses to remove his jacket before proceeding to take on a handful of carjackers all on his own.

There can be no list of fresh badasses that doesn't include James Bond. Yeah, yeah, we know Pierce Brosnan is far from the best man to ever hold the license to kill—that would be Connery, of course. Maybe that's because his Bond was too busy making sure he looked fresh to death while parading around the globe to get the job done effectively. (Captured for a year at the beginning of the movie?! C'mon son!)

Not only does dude sport one of the best superhero costumes of all time, but even when Robert Downey Jr.'s character is on his day job, he stays sharp as hell. Sometimes he's laced in threads even more opulent than sleek red-gold-silver metal.

The Driver, played by Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn's excellent film, may be a man of few words, hobbies, and vices. His racing coat however, with the threaded gold scorpion on the back for added coolness, is understatedly sick.

The most fantastic part of The Matrix concept wasn't the whole humans-as-machines, fake reality thing. Nope. What was even crazier was that these dudes were whooping ass whilst head-to-toe draped up in the finest garments they could imagine. Some people looked a bit crazy (we're looking at you Jada Pinkett), but once plugged in, Laurence Fishburne never faltered.

We had to do it. In a long and storied film career, Samuel A. Jackson's ruthless L.A. gun-runner Ordell Robbie still stands as one of his top five most memorable roles. Part of that was thanks to some hilarious dialog courtesy of Quentin Tarantino ("How do you live here girl? This is some repugnant shit!") but we'd be remiss if we didn't point out his fearless, so-gaudy-it's-awesome style choices. Yes, including the ponytail. Ordell was a true modern-day West Coast pimp, complete with a young, incredibly hot Bridget Fonda on his arm.

While everybody else was running around the universe(s) in bland ass tunics, Harrison Ford's Han was the only one that stood out no matter what planet the gang was on. His vest and leg gun holster were swaggerific.

Greed is good, and the closet is even better. Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko had car money, fresh start money, Saudi money, art money, and the best suits money could buy.

Damn, Christian Bale played the hell out of this character. When you're all swagged out down to the business cards, you've pretty much killed the competition. Word to Fab.

Casino might be one of the flyest movies of all time. De Niro and Joe Pesci's Sam "Ace" Rothstein and Nicky Santoro put the Vegas casino and crime scenes in a vise-grip and murdered the style scene while they were at it too. We could have shown a photo of any scene that featured Ace out of the whole three-hour opus, but we have to give some shine to the level of swag he kept, even when he was in the cut. Fresh down to the bathrobe, son!