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

4. The Enemies In The Film Being Trained Marksmen, But Have Terrible Accuracy When Shooting

This mistake must be the most common from every action movie with a gun fight scene. When the hero character is in a gunfight with the enemy €“ of which are all trained assassins €“ for some reason all their adversaries have suddenly come down with protagonist-induced inaccuracy. When watching a film, you want to believe the enemies stand an honest chance of winning, rather than it being blatantly obvious they're simply just shooting inexplicably a mile wide from the hero character. The old James Bond films were the worst for it years ago, when Bond could literally walk past bullets being fired towards him without care in the world. It does nothing to convince the viewers of realism in the film, and it seems completely pointless having enemies even there for effect if a couple of their many bullets fired aren't coming close to hitting the hero. I know it's largely more a comedy film than it is drama, but the Rush Hour series was also a movie franchise that showcased the incompetence of enemies in a gun-shooting scene. In one of the opening scenes from the first film, main character Lee is walking up a flight of open spiralling metal stairs while being shot at, but the bullets hit the stairs and miss him completely. And of course, no bullets bounce off and into Lee, because that would never happen. Ridiculous. Despite the enemies being born into a life of crime, and given rigorous training to become terrific marksmen, the fact they miss a target from 10 yards away is pathetic to say the least. But it's another flaw Hollywood don't care about enough to warrant changing it. What's worse is when you can clearly see their gun is aimed right at the hero character only for the wind to blow their bullets off target, because there's no other logical explanation as to why they aren't hitting the person. Inception had a scene near the end of the film where Tom Hardy's character was running past gunfire with a gun covering a small section of his face. Obviously that was more than enough protection as he didn't get hit. Similarly, the Star Wars stormtroopers are trained for nothing but war and bred from the genes of the finest sharpshooter in the galaxy, but obviously this means precisely squat when they're confronted with Luke, Han, and the surely easy-to-hit hairy giant that is Chewbacca. It's disgraceful how amateur they make enemies appear to be for the sake of the film, rather than going for realism and showing them to be competent characters. The humorous aspect is how these enemies in question are billed as successful criminals previously, but when looking at their antics during the action movie, you'd question how they'd ever managed to make it that far.