[madnak]

I think this is more an element of the action movie "mythos" than a specific incongruity. It's like how, in action movies, the bad guys always miss and the good guys always hit. Or how the heroes regularly take falls of 20+ feet (or significantly greater trauma) and then stand up and brush themselves off. How fatigue, disorientation, and fear never affect anyone. How reaction times to unfamiliar situations are about 1/10th of a second. How the action hero can always say "trust me" about an insane risk and be right every time. In fact, how generally nothing unlucky ever happens during the stunts and schemes. How the car always handles perfectly during a chase (except for the police, who aside from being incompetent drivers always skid around like they're on skis or something). How hero-man can take a shot to the leg and just "suck it up" and keep doing acrobatic stunts.

I mean, in terms of realism I don't think any action movie comes close to being even physically possible. I think a lot of people just don't realize how much of a stretch most of these things are.