eli5: Do real mines explode the moment it is stepped on or when the foot is released?

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Saw too much movies where people step on mines and they don’t explode if the foot stay on. Do real mines work this way?

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Movies are not reality.

Mines go off as soon as someone steps on them, because *that’s the whole point*. But the movie would end much more quickly if the main character just exploded.

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