Action Movies






The six James Bond portrayers.
Top: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore.
Bottom: Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig.
Current trends in action film include a development
toward more elaborate fight scenes in Western film.
This trend is influenced by the massive success of
Hong Kong action cinema, both in Asia and in the
west. Asian martial arts elements, such as kung-fu
can now be found in numerous non-Asian action
films. Now, a distinction can be made between films
that lean toward physical, agile fighting, such as
Blade and The Matrix, and those that lean toward
other common action film conventions, like
explosions and plenty of gunfire, such as Mission
Impossible 3, although most action movies employ
elements of both. The next big movie coming out is
Chuck Norris VS Mr. T in Running Out of Time
coming out october 16 2008