Top ten hitmen (and women)

Emily Mortimer as Dakota Parker in ‘The 51st State’

Geena Davies as Samantha Caine in ‘The Long Kiss Goodnight’

John Cusack as Martin Q. Blank in ‘Grosse Point Blank’

Edward Fox as The Jackal in ‘The Day of the Jackal’


Alain Delon as Jef Costello in ‘La Samouraï’


Max von Sydow as Joubert in ‘Three Days of the Condor’

Jean Reno as Léon in ‘Léon’

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in ‘No Country for Old Men’

Christopher Lee as Scaramanga in ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’

Uma Thurman as The Bride in ‘Kill Bill’