10 Moments That Literally Stopped Action Movies

10. A Polite Reload - Hard Target

The mighty Jean-Claude Van Damme can always be counted on to deliver the mesmerising action goods whenever his sweaty torso swaggers onto the scene.

And that was certainly the case during John Woo's thrilling 1993 action classic Hard Target, as Van Damme's former Force Recon Marine Chance Boudreaux went about taking out a group of doomed fools during the film's latter stages.

After largely kicking, blasting, and exploding his way through Emil Fouchon's hunting party, though, something rather magical happens.

With Arnold Vosloo's also brilliantly named Pik Van Cleef closing in on our leading man within a warehouse, the two suddenly find themselves back to back, with only a thin wall separating either man from imminent death.

There's only one problem: they've both ran out of bullets, the silly gooses.

What follows is a hilarious halt in the action as the adversaries share a bit of small talk whilst cramming bullets into their chosen weapon.

Then, in a bizarrely polite turn of events, both men refuse to resume fire until the other one has fully loaded up their pistols. But once the bullets are finally unleashed again, it's Van Damme who inevitably walks out of this one alive thanks to a rather unique pistol shuffling manoeuvre.