1990s action films

There is a brutal elegance to John Wick: Chapter 2 that calls to mind mid-1990s B-movie mayhem, ludicrous violence, the unrelenting action of a Bruce Lee-style action movie and dry, droll moments of humor that leave us shaking our heads in amused disbelief. While the level of violence will turn away some viewers, this sequel to the surprise 2014 box office smash brings Keanu Reeves back to the big screen as the feared killer, known around the criminal underworld as “The Boogeyman.” After the surprising

audiences can easily identify with by portraying conventional images of a person with identifiable characteristics. In previous years, the dominant representation of a women in film has been the passive, subjugated protagonist. However, through the development of female empowerment and added feminist representations of film, the female heroine transformed to become strong and independent women in her own right, as an individual character. Whilst it would seem at face value that the portrayal of a

Other Based on the French film Nikita (1990) and a previous series La Femme Nikita (1997- 2001), the first season of the U.S. television series Nikita (2010) is starred by a sexy Asian actress, Maggie Q, as its main protagonist and centers around her revenge. The series typifies another stereotypical representation of Asian women constructed through Western eyes－the woman warrior or the martial arts mistress. Some feminist scholars suggest that the popularity of action heroines is to be considered

devastating the world’s largest cities, but on occasion, it’s nothing more than a evil-doer with a vision. Popular films, like Die Hard, Air Force One, and Speed have previously created concentrated environments for terrorists to thrive with their grandiose, sinister schemes - creating timeless heroes and memorable climaxes in the process. And, while not as famous as those aforementioned films, Olympus Has Fallen made similar strides for success a few short years ago. Olympus Has Fallen was - by no stretch

Action Adventure movies are one of the most common genre of movies that we see in the theatres. This genre of movie makes the biggest headlines and is also paired with the biggest ticket sales. So with such huge success that the Action Adventure genre within movies has, something has to be working to garner such an audience. In this year there have been quit a few Action Adventure movie hits, such the widely anticipated movie “Dead pool.” Dead pool is a movie about a dark humored mercenary who is

In a film market that is saturated with mindless multi-million dollar blockbusters, a seemingly thematically ambitious one like Elysium can stand out amongst the clutter. Blomkamp has tackled allegory before with his acclaimed debut District 9. Though it by all means isn’t a perfect film, District 9 stood out for its approach at sci-fi allegory, mixing documentary-like filmmaking with spectacular action set pieces while thoughtfully tackling themes of racism and xenophobia. However, Elysium does

version of remake has become suddenly popular, turning a cartoon into a live action movie. This has become very popular with Disney movies now, movies like Beauty and the Beast.             Beauty and the Beast was first an animated movie made by Disney in 1991, 26 years later they did a live action remake of it. We have the obvious main characters, Belle and the Beast, but what about the supporting characters? In this film the supporting characters make up most of the movie and are not to be overlooked

their first films, thus establishing the French New Wave. In Italy, Fellini created the elegant La Dolce Vita, and Antonioni gave us L’avventura. Most importantly, though, in America, famed British director Alfred Hitchcock gave us the classic thriller North by Northwest, the father of the modern action film. Throughout the history of filmmaking, many different genres have thrived such as the romantic comedy, giving us such classics as Bringing up Baby and His Girl Friday. The war film gave us All

one of the most exhilarating and action packed movie of its time. It’s a movie about how a human joins forces with a group of robots to fight off the other bad robots trying to take over the human’s planet. Throughout this movie it is very action packed and couldn’t grab the audience’s attention more than any other movie could to anyone who loves action movies. This movie presents such a different perspective towards action movies that no one has ever seen in an action movie produced by Michael Bay

strong moral choice and decides to investigate. It works. Action films, however, depend on strong action and a fast pace. FRIENDLY FIRE would benefit from picking up the pace. Given the overture and the missing weapons, it’s clear what is at stake. The viewer is waiting for the story to start and for her to find the murderers. However, the script drags out Act I. It’s understood Macy is a bean counter; it’s an interesting take on military action hero. “The DaVinci Code” and the TV series “The Librarians”