- Explosions
- Fighting
- 12/15 certificate
- Usually fiction
- Fast paced editing
- Recognisable villian
- Dramatic non-diegetic sound to emphasise a situation
- Includes CGI - Computer Generated Image
- A predictable chain of events
- Weaponry
- Modern locations
- Busy setting
- Stunts
- Major Hollywood studio
- A love interest - usually told mid-film
- Enigma - puzzles to solve throughout
- High production line - have the money to create features including CGI
- Characters start with smart clothes which get scruffy to show the situations that they have been in
- Camera angles include, birds eye view, close ups, medium shots, over the shoulder shots and extreme close ups
- The antagonist is usually not recognisable in the beginning
Cliches in action movies
- An impromtu emergency surgery
- Suicidal mission
- Ninja's running up the wall
- Men rappel down steep hills, the side of the building and are usually only left with a scratch
- Some characters have horns on their heads
- Nuclear weapons
- An untrustworthy hunchbacks
- A small group of men which one will not be on a mission and betray the others and the leader of the group will die
- The protagonist will usually be backstabbed by a rival or enemy
- The antagonist will be masked or unidentified until the midpoint of the film
- Leap away from explosions
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