It's
your typical action plot with not many surprises, but it succeeds in moving along the story between the action sequences.
Despite the more refreshing scenes (it has its share) it still falters from
typical action plot points that seem to infest every film he's in.
Not exact matches
It does touch on some genre convention but twists the
typical understanding of such themes to extremely bizarre lengths; this is enhanced by the completely meta - nature layered over the already absurd
plot and
action.
Director Tsui Hark and fight director Sammo Hung provide some great wire - fu
action sequences among the convoluted
plot that is
typical of these kinds of Chinese epic modern films.
Audiences seem to want disaster movies, and Twister delivers the
typical formula: Tiny
plot — big
action.
There's some fairly terse
plotting, and the bank robbery sequence starts off quite engaging until it devolves into a Heat - like shootout and the
typical live
action finale of pratfalls.
After three completed playthroughs (and counting), I can assure you the game's swing - and - shoot
action soars above its
plot, and creates firefights that are far more interesting to navigate than the
typical, cover - based
action of other third - person shooters.
I'm not claiming that it's brilliantly written, but this
plot twist does not seem like random bad writing to me so much as a symptom of the East - meets - West genre cross-pollination that, in general, makes Bionic Commando more interesting and quirky than your
typical Western
action game.