And when all is said and done, the Bourne Identity could almost be placed as a very
generic action thriller.
If you're desperately waiting for Liam Neeson to move away from
generic action thrillers, 2014 looks like it could be off to a promising...
When: January 13th Why: It's pretty funny that a movie about counterfeiting should turn out to be an imitation itself (the Icelandic film on which its based featured the U.S. version's director, Baltasar Kormákur, in the lead role), but despite the fact that its clichéd plot seems to have been ripped off from a number of
generic action thrillers just like it, «Contraband» has one thing that a lot of those films didn't — a killer ensemble cast.
Not exact matches
This Mission unfolds at a near dead - sprint — frenetic editing, whiplash camera pans, all hiding an intentionally under - explained plot and
generic action beats that will be familiar to anyone who has ever seen a ticking - clock
thriller.
When the writers on The Simpsons needed a
generic - sounding movie for Marge and Homer to see, sans kids, they came up with «The Stockholm Affair,» a spy
thriller plotted enough to make Marge feel smart, but with enough
action to entertain Homer.
The
generic plot of Haywire could have been lifted from any «international»
action thriller stretching back from 1960's to the present day.
Blackhat is quite
generic when it comes to following the
action -
thriller formula, plus it has a shoehorned in romance subplot that is completely useless to the story.
Unlocked, the new
action thriller with a deeply
generic title, gives Rapace the chance to do a bunch of badass stuff...
In Before Dawn I thought the
generic horror /
action beats let down the more impressive dramatic sequences, whereas in Bait I felt it worked better as a
thriller than anything else.