His work in Kathryn Bigelow’s 2017 thriller combined equal amounts of despicability, authority and menace that made him an unpredictable (yet oddly magnetic) screen presence.
If any villain in the pantheon of DC Comics fits that description, then it has to be Mr. J.
You hate him while you’re watching him, but it doesn’t make him any less of a scene-stealer.
However, it is his recent turn as corrupt, racist police officer Krauss in Detroit that has definitively proven what he can do as a super villain.