Bad guy gets killed right when he's about to win.

Only one star because this is called "narrative" and "climax" and has been a part of story telling since Og told the tale of how he killed the saber toothed tiger while sitting at a campfire in Olduvai Gorge 15,000 years ago. Maybe you'd prefer the bad guy gets killed early? That would make for a very short, or a damn boring movie, or both.

A very simplistic way to tell a story. A good writer weaves a much broader tale with a villain(s) that's not so 'good guy vs. bad guy' (good way to tell a story but very simple minded). What I mean by that is a villain or antagonist doesn't have to be a singular being who gets a sword to the heart at the end of a movie. A villain can be many things, a way of thinking imposed on others, a disease, a political battle etc. etc. What I believe the list maker intended with this entry is the typical Batman TV series plot for example where right when the bad guy is poised for victory he blows it; which we've seen a million times, to pretend you haven't seen this over-used is to simply by a pompous contrarian. Instead of just shooting the protagonist in the head and ending it, he has to go on and on for like five minutes explaining why his plan was so brilliant. Giving the hero's enough time to escape and then use the information against him/her to spoil all their plans.

Hold on there Ace. First we kill him and embrace the hot damsel who we just saved and have a moment of peace. THEN he rises from what we assumed was death, reaches for his weapon and makes one last desperate attemt to kill us. Said damsel grabs the hero's weapon and blows the bad guy's head off and he goes flying off the edge of the building, over the cliff, into the abyss or into a pool of flesh eating creatures of some form. THEN the sun can set and the credits can roll.

I'm so glad Blade didn't do this. There is no point in the movie when you doubt that Blade will win. Wesley barely takes off his sunglasses in the film.

Wolfgang Pedersen is a terrible movie director. I mean, awful...I couldn't tell you how bad if I tried very hard. That being said, if he could create a movie in which this happens to The Yankees, it would make Citizen Kane look like Troll 2.

You know it, and hopefully, hate it as much as I do. Scenario: Bad guy is about to... 1. drill the incapacitated good guy in the head with his pistol. 2. push a button that will launch 100 nuclear missiles. 3. have his way with a defenseless, scared-shitless female lead. 4. get away on a vehicle with a stolen 100 million dollars (in small bills, of course). Conflict resolution: [can be mixed and matched with any of the above, can also be used adjoined with humor, such as a falling toilet seat or a flame-retardant teddy bear] 1. Other good guy, previously thought [ A) dead B) a traitor C) too drunk to fight D) transformed into a raging mutant E) all of the above ] comes in and shoots, stabs, decapitates, sets on fire, quarters and castrates the bad guy (not always in that particular order though). 2. The bad guy's trigger, button, Windows, mutant ram doesn't work properly and the incapacitated good guy happens to miraculously find a rusty razor besides him, which he/she prom... Read more