10 More Movies That Killed Completely The Wrong Character
Death is part of life. It just did not have to come so soon for these characters.
Unfortunately, few things sell drama in movies quite like death and the threat of it. There is nothing quite like sitting through a film and drinking in the entire experience only to lead with huge pangs of sadness after one of your favourite characters meets a grim end. Sometimes, of course, their send-offs are warranted to help move the story along but, with others, there can be suspicions that the trigger was pulled for the sake of some easy impact.
But, like it or not, death is a certainty in the movie business. The one small mercy is usually the fact that the best and most important characters are protected by thick plot armour. They might appear to be in danger, but they'll usually come through fine in the end.
Usually, but not always.
Sadly, movies do still kill off characters who shouldn't have met their end. And in some cases, you literally could reel off a huge number of other who should have been written out of the script instead. Life just isn't that fair, though.
Sure, it's an easy way to get people talking about your film franchise, and indeed to sell the idea that EVERYONE can be under threat, but that doesn't mean it isn't heartbreaking...
10. Lenore Mills: Taken 3
The Death: Liam Neeson’s ex-wife Lenore is murdered just as it looks as if whatever they had back in the 1990s was about to be rekindled. It’s a cruel blow given the circumstances - yet nobody really gives it a second thought. This was a character who, after two films, the audience did not know that well while her daughter, on the other hand, was more of a familiar face.
Who Should Have Died Instead: Kim Mills
The first Taken film was good, the second predictable and the third just entirely unnecessary.
And speaking of unnecessary, Lenore's death really is. She is the mother of Neeson’s daughter who has already been through the ringer at this point having been kidnapped and ultimately rescued twice before. Therefore, she's nothing more than a side character, despite making two previous cameos prior the finale.
Neeson's daughter and Maggie Grace’s character Kim is kidnapped twice before the third instalment and the fact that she is the most precious thing in Neeson’s world means her death would have been entirely justifiable. However, potentially aware that her demise would probably turn Mills into a non-functioning mess, the script-writers chose to give Lenore the chop instead - paving the way for a drab, pointless movie in the process.