4. Cameron Poe - Con Air
Con Air depicts a time and place in which all the world's nuttiest character actors are put on a huge plane and told to play varying degrees of psychopath, all while John Cusack runs around on the ground trying to work out what the hell is going on. The movie stars Nicolas Cage in the role of the protagonist, the terribly-named Cameron Poe. After defending his wife in a car park brawl, Poe accidentally ends up murdering another human being, and gets put in jail. Years later, he's paroled and loaded onto an airplane - one that just so happens to be shipping a bunch of criminal nutcases to another prison. John Malkovich is one of these nutcases, and he plans to hijack the plane and fly it to a country where US rules don't apply. Poe, of course, is the only "good" prisoner on the aircraft, but there's an undercover agent on board, too, who attempts to take down Malkovich in the first half an hour. For some reason, though, Poe mis-judges this situation completely: he attempts to distract Malkovich whilst the agent goes in for the kill, but Malkovich gets wind of this little ruse and shoots the agent dead. That's it. Poe's "attempt" to help out actually worked in a manner best described as "counter-constructive." From then on, the movie explodes and crashes all over the place. The lives of many innocent people put are put at risk because Cameron Poe tried to be a hero and refused to stay in his seat. Thing is, had Poe just sat down and done absolutely nothing, the plane would have eventually been forced to land (which it does anyway) and the FBI would've got to them no problem. There's also a highly questionable moment when Poe convinces the ground-team not to shoot down Con Air. Fair enough, you say: he doesn't want to die! But the FBI are planning to shoot down the airplane when it's flying over a deserted area, and Poe tells them that it's a super bad idea. The plane eventually comes down directly onto the Las Vegas strip, though, which we can only presume at least a few innocent people were maimed, injured or killed. As long as you got back to your wife and kid, Poe, then I guess nothing else matters. Oh, except that Steve Buscemi's crazed murderer has survived the ordeal and is headed out for a night of gambling of cocktails. Let's hope he's rehabilitated or something, hm?