A lot of times a suspense thriller will get really good until the climax when the hero decides to completely chicken out in the end, often illogically even, and it takes me out of the suspense. It's hard to judge those types of movies cause you don't know if a downer of a climax should ruin an excellent rest of the movie beforehand. Here's a good example from Lakeview Terrace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvy34R0abs0
As you can see the good guy had several chances to shoot the villain, but every second he wasted resulted in him and his wife nearly being shot to death, more than once. So you wonder, 'why didn't you just shoot him, you idiot!'
A lot of movies do this. Die Hard did it near the beginning, where McClane has a gun pointed at the side of thugs head. The bad guy refuses to put down the gun, and instead of shooting, McClane decides to hit him and wrestler a machine gun out of his hand, heavily risking his own life. Since he had no back up, or handcuffs, what did he expect to do with the bad guy anyway? In Die Hard, at least he learned earlier on in the movie though, but a
lot of thrillers, will save the chickening out for the ending, of all places, such as the example.
Does this bother anyone in serious thrillers, that are really good in other ways, or not really? For me, it makes a lot of them hard to judge, compared to other genres.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvy34R0abs0
As you can see the good guy had several chances to shoot the villain, but every second he wasted resulted in him and his wife nearly being shot to death, more than once. So you wonder, 'why didn't you just shoot him, you idiot!'
A lot of movies do this. Die Hard did it near the beginning, where McClane has a gun pointed at the side of thugs head. The bad guy refuses to put down the gun, and instead of shooting, McClane decides to hit him and wrestler a machine gun out of his hand, heavily risking his own life. Since he had no back up, or handcuffs, what did he expect to do with the bad guy anyway? In Die Hard, at least he learned earlier on in the movie though, but a
lot of thrillers, will save the chickening out for the ending, of all places, such as the example.
Does this bother anyone in serious thrillers, that are really good in other ways, or not really? For me, it makes a lot of them hard to judge, compared to other genres.