Being a true story distinguishes Deepwater Horizon
from other action movies and the fact that the BP oil spill's specifics remain not terribly well - known enables Peter Berg's thriller to be exciting in addition to polished.
He deftly pivots between the moments of mourning and the righteous wrath of Quan, following in the footsteps
of other action movie elder statesmen like Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson and Liam Neeson.
One of many reasons that «Vengeance» works, and something that
other action movie producers could look at, is that McTiernan and writer Jonathan Hensleigh never betray how seriously they take their larger - than - life narrative.
Whilst other action movies rely on shaky camerawork to cover up their leads less than stellar fighting skills, here Reeves is front and centre, and even at 52 he can still kick ass.
There are more head - stabbings per minute in Olympus Has Fallen than
another other action movie ever made, which makes the dearth of head - stabbings in these new batch of London Has Fallen clips rather disappointing.
The action sequences are tame in comparison to
any other action movie made in the last 10 years and the self - referential humor and one - liners which were a big part of the first two are lazily written and unoriginal.
Red is a great action movie (and I'd also suggest as a great date movie), which is more than I could say about
some other action movies that came out last year * cough * TheExpendables * cough * Just wish I could've seen it on the big screen.
More bystanders are slaughtered in this flick than practically
any other action movie ever made (I'm serious), and it's slightly entertaining watching them all but throw themselves in the path of the bullets.
With the exception of a mixture of 80's, 90's and current action stars, what separates this movie for
the other action movies that come out yearly?
«Keanu» works best as a parody of action movies and takes jabs at «John Wick,» «True Romance» (1993), «The Boondock Saints» (1999), «Bad Boys» (1995), and a million
other action movies.
And while the film is structured like
any other action movie you've ever seen, there's nothing extraordinary about its execution that screams for attention.
Fresh: Like
every other action movie, it's designed for a 14 - year - old boy's mentality, but it's enjoyable enough to turn most people into 14 - year - old boys.
But it's the only foundation propping up the movie, which is delivered with all the subtlety of a motorcycle crashing through a plate - glass window or a truck flying through the flames of an explosion (both of these things actually happen in the film's opening sequence, but you are welcome to pick any of
the other action movie cliches herein to illustrate my point).