A funny thing happened to action movies in 2018: Horror movies swallowed them whole. This wasn’t an across-the-board…
If you haven’t seen Wolf Warrior II, the massive 2017 Chinese blockbuster, the first thing you might know about it is …
Wu Jing, now a massive action star, was in the first Kill Zone, the 2005 Donnie Yen vehicle that helped translate MMA…
It takes a whole lot to turn The Road Warrior into an afterthought. George Miller’s second Mad Max movie, released in…
In the entire history of American action cinema, there are very, very few movies that take their fight scenes as…
About midway through Bong Joon-ho’s 2013’s apocalyptic class-warfare fable Snowpiercer, we get to the scene with the…
You’re all alone. You haven’t even been on the police force for that long, but here you are, disarmed and cut off from…
Stuntmen loved Fast Five. The year after the movie came out, I spent a few days at ActionFest, a film festival in North…
In the 2011 South Korean movie War Of The Arrows, a historical drama about a master archer who practically wins an…
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)
“Was that racist, or did it just seem racist?” That was the basic idea of the conversation that my friends and I had as…
When I started this column, I decided that the modern action movie began with Bullitt in 1968. But a strong case—maybe…
Last year, when Rogue One came out, America learned something that much of the rest of the world already knew: Donnie…
Paul Greengrass didn’t invent shakycam. The technique of frantic handheld camerawork and chaotic editing had been…
Quentin Tarantino loves action movies. Quentin Tarantino’s characters love action movies. The history of action cinema,…
It’s one of our great action-movie traditions, right up there with the moment that 007, in the middle of the circle,…
Wheels within wheels within wheels: The surprise hit of summer 2001 was The Fast And The Furious, a goofy low-stakes…
People laughed. That’s the thing I remember the most from the sleepy art-house cinema where I first saw Ang Lee’s 2000…
We’ve been seeing some weird shit happen in the world lately. Donald Trump, trailing badly in the polls and making an…
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