7 Mistakes You Won't Believe Every Hollywood Action Movie Continues To Make

6. Characters Surviving After Falling From Great Heights

Another common flaw the audience are supposed to just ignore without making a big fuss is when a character inexplicably survives after being thrown or falling from a great height. While there are exceptions to every rule, in only very extreme circumstances do people survive from such great heights, and they are more often than not left with a list of broken limbs as well as life-changing and appearance altering injuries. So to suggest it should happen in a multitude of action films is certainly heavy-handed. The most ridiculous example of this was certainly in the Bourne Identity, in which the titular character needs to exit a building fast to escape, and he decides to jump off the top of a seven-flight spiralling staircase with a dead body underneath his feet to soften the blow. After leaping to what would obviously be his certain death, somehow despite the dead body visibly landing first and Bourne crashing into it, he survives. Not only does Bourne live following the incident that would be fatal for any other human being, he literally gets up and walks away, albeit meagrely. While it's not just the Bourne films guilty of another obvious film flaw in action movies, why on earth the movie writers think the audience shouldn't question such a mistake is ridiculous. How on earth a person could fall from that height and get straight back up with minor injuries is beyond me. Regardless of the dead body acting as a shield, the person who jumped would be stone cold dead on impact, not to mention body parts being flung to and fro inside them if they did survival initial impact.