10 Rules For Surviving Action Movies

10. Don't Be A British Actor Playing A European Villain

Deadpool's opening credits skewered one of action cinema's favorite cliches by simply listing Ed Skrein's Ajax as 'A British Villain', and if there's one thing Hollywood loves more than having someone from the United Kingdom play the bad guy, it's casting them as someone from elsewhere in mainland Europe.

If you're a British actor putting on an accent in an action movie, then the chances of you getting out of it alive are microscopic at best. Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber set the tone for the sharp-suited and intellectual archetype, which we've seen replicated on innumerable occasions, and they always end up meeting the same fate.

British actors playing villains from their own nation have enough of a hard time surviving action movies as it is, but adopting an accent is always a guaranteed death-knell from the second they open their mouths and begin over-pronouncing their vowels and hard R's.