10 Rules For Surviving Action Movies
6. Stop Trusting The Obviously Untrustworthy Person
As audience members, we're expected to figure out a lot of plot details on our own, but sometimes you just want to yell at the screen when the main character is eventually double-crossed by someone who has been so blatantly evil the entire time that you kind of think they deserve to be f*cked over for being such an idiot in the first place.
Loki has flipped allegiances so many times in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that its hard to keep count, while almost every Mission: Impossible movie involves at least one mole working for the bad guys that Ethan Hunt should have probably become much less trusting and a lot more careful by now.
Every time it seems to be signposted by either a close up of a Machiavellian smirk, some suspiciously loaded dialogue or some flat-out evil music swelling in the background. If you're surrounded by a cast of supporting characters and the fate of the world is at stake, then there's a 95% that one of them is going to turn on you in the end, which rises up to 99% if one of them happens to be British.