Worst Action Movie Cliches

When anyone jumps out of a car going 80 mph+ and walks away without a scratch.

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1) 99% of all bombs have red LED lettering
2) Countdown is announced over the P.A. (normally by a woman's voice)
3) Hero is an ex-SEAL, ex Ranger, ex FBI posing as an ordinary joe. (Con Air, Under Siege, etc)
4) Surveillance cameras have INFINITE zoom and fuzzy, grainy pictures can be reconstructed to perfect resolution. (Enemy of the State, No Way Out, etc)
5) Hackers can break into any application without even relying on outside software. (Swordfish, Jurassic Park, Goldeneye, Italian Job)

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I guess this is really for horror flicks instead of action movies, but the cliche of the necking/frollicking/having-sex teens being the victims of what I can only guess is a Victorian era zombie who hates young people having relations.

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Virtually every action movie has an actor shouting:

"Let's get out of here!"

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THE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS SELLS OUT TO THE BAD GUYS. Gotta be an overplayed twist, and always tiks you off. Here, the hero gets his brains beat out to help her and the ingrate turns on him first chance.
NATIONAL TREASURE, THE MASK

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"This is not good...." or conversly, "This is bad..."

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Everybody is avenging somebody. Usually it's a dead family member, but the ex-parter/war buddy/so-and-so figure is pretty routine too. Then there's the "get knocked down by the explosion but not struck by any shrapnel" phenomenon. Love it!

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There's never a traffic jam in a high speed chase, even in NYC or LA!

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There's never a traffic jam in a high speed chase, even in NYC or LA!

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I am sick and tired of improbable and impossible plots that are filled with holes!!! They insult my intelligience. Everything is so contrived and pat. Plus sex scenes that having nothing to do with the plot but are just thrown in there to make the main character look like a stud with a big you know what. The all time worst is stunts that are not humanely possible. Charlies Angels Mission Impossible, etc.

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This is especially true on television. My non-favorite is that when wandering through room after room at night while investigating a murder that has just occurred, the police, FBI, or whoever are always using flashlights. I know it wouldn't be as dramatic, but has anyone thought about turning on the lights?

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Whenever the hero has to fight a group, they will attack him one at a time, while the others circle him and wait their turns.

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one of most annoying movie cliches has to be the whole "Drop the gun or she dies!" Speach from the villian holding a hostage. and 99.9% percent of the time the hero has to drop the gun or at least acts like it.

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Little woman beating up big men in almost any recent action movie.

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What I'm sick and tired of is all the GEICO commercials implying that cavemen are just as intelligent as modern man and can easily do what an educated modern man does. Clearly, rising above bigotry is beyond the meager abilities of your average neanderthal. Just see #4 above for proof.

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My partner just can't handle the job or violence anymore but somehow changes his mind after he comes to the rescue
i.e. Leathal Weapon, Bad Boys II,Running Scared

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There is ALWAYs a parking spot, right in front of the building the Hero is entering.

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A group of people are on a recreational / leisurly / or shopping trip in their car / van / bus , the vehicle breaks down in the cinematic equivalent of the Australian Outback , they are attacked by whatever happens to be the threat at the moment , and no one has a cell phone . Repeat: a cell phone

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someone hanging off of a cliff

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