To break your story you have to find the specific TASK the hero has to complete in order to reach his goal. The whole plot jumps off of that task, building the leitmotiv of the movie. Appearantly, most writers have a problem to create an active hero (you can include me), especially when they are coming from writing novels, poetry or even when they are influenced by European cinema, which leaves much more room for intellectual exercises that are open for interpretation, internal conflict and passive characters. In a dramatic story however, you want clarity of intent first and foremost. What is your hero actually doing? How is he pursuing his goal? Is he traveling, fighting, training, exploring, hunting or investigating to reach his goal? If you're writing an action movie, be careful not to fall back on investigating, because that's the opposite of fighting.