7 Movies Where The Villain Dies Earlier Than You Think

7. Egor Korshunov - Air Force One

Classic '90s action flick Air Force One stars Harrison Ford as the President of the United States, James Marshall, who must fend off a group of terrorists who have hijacked the POTUS' titular plane, led by the sadistic Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman).

Though Korshunov may ultimately be working for another big bad, Kazakh dictator Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow), he is for all intents and purposes the primary antagonist, enough that you'd expect him to only get the Hans Gruber treatment in the film's closing moments, right?

But in fact, Korshunov gets his neck snapped by Marshall 25 minutes before the end of the movie, after which the President has to pilot the plane, fight off some MiGs, defeat a duplicitous Secret Service Agent (Xander Berkeley) and perform a daring mid-air evacuation after damage to the plane makes landing impossible.

Action movies of this era were infamous for tacking excessive second climaxes on - looking at you, Speed - but at least in this case it was ludicrously entertaining, no matter that Oldman's deliciously hammy villain checked out almost a half-hour prior.