Pet Peeves (Bad Action Writing)

In a Facebook group I'm in, one of the members (Keith Gaston: The Credit Where Credit Is Due Department) posted the following question:

What is a pet peeve you have with action movies or television shows?

I thought the responses were filled with lots of practical information for writers too, particularly those who write action, pulp, thrillers, etc. So, thankfully, Keith was nice enough to let me repost his threat here (albeit with the chit-chat edited out). 

The Responses:

Keith Gaston:

Cocking a weapon when there's a round already in the chamber.

Worse offenders, you're holding a pistol, but you feel the need to walk across the room and place the muzzle of the gun to the back of your victim's head. You must be one poor shot. 

Bobby Nash: 

Hero is down to the last two bullets. Kills bad guy. Bad guy has a gun. Hero does not grab bad guy's gun.

"Drop the gun. I won't tell you again." This line pretty much guarantees they will tell them again.

Hiding behind thin walls of other things that won't stop a bullet, yet miraculously stops bullets.

Cop shows also love to shout at the suspects who don't see you coming from a distance so they can run and be chased. 

Milton Davis: 

Running to the roof where there is no way of escaping to escape.

A hundred bad guys with automatic weapons getting outgunned by a guy with a revolver.

The hero gets hit by a car and keeps running. Hell, he fell off a multistory building and walked away. 

Getting the jump on your nemesis, then putting down your gun so y'all can fist fight.

Sean Taylor:

Guys who laugh at bullet wounds and wince as a pretty woman dresses a scratch.

In the middle of a busy and distracting gun battle, when it counts, the hero never misses a clean heart or head shot. No matter what the villain is hiding near.

A gut shot kills the victim instantly. What?! 

Thirty seconds of choking kills a victim by asphyxiation.

Folks only die quickly if there's some important information they need to share with the hero.

Bill Craig: 

It drives me crazy reading about somebody using a suppressor on a revolver in a book. The gap between the cylinder and the barrel renders suppressor's useless on revolvers. If some one is going to write about weapons, they should at least go to a range and learn how to fire one.