4 Eastern Promises (2007)
Actor who stripped down: Viggo Mortensen
Why they’re fully nude: Who wears clothes in a bathhouse?
Viggo Mortensen is the definition of a “swinging dick” in Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg’s gritty Russian mob movie, when he’s mistaken for the mob boss’ son (Vincent Cassel) at a bath house and forced to take out a room full of blade-wielding bad guys—in the buff.
As the ultimate symbol of strength and virility, Roger Ebert declared that the scene “sets the same kind of standard that The French Connection set for chases. Years from now, it will be referred to as a benchmark.” It also made Viggo a major badass!
