Do people really die violently with the same flair as they do in the movies?

I was watching a couple of James Bond movies shown on cable this weekend. Lots of of people die from gunshot wounds (and various other causes).

In the Spy Who Loved Me there’s a gunfight just before they defuse the nuclear bomb – lots of shooting and such.

Several of the actors, once shot, wobble side to side and then finally drop dead. One of them clutches his chest and then falls forward. Another, after having been shot, throws his arms wide out to each side before collapsing.

How realistically depicted are these deaths? When you get shot, do you wobble and then fall? Or is this just acting?