A freakshow of moronic and illogical tactics

Steven Poole finds that years of playing videogames has spoiled him for live action fight scenes:

Often in the cinema, an analytical subroutine of my brain will signal that, in some sense, I have been in a situation like the one currently being played out onscreen, and it’s only because the celluloid enemies are stupider and less skilled than any you find in videogames on difficulty settings higher than “I have never played a videogame before in my life” that the heroes get away with it.