From Rambo to John Wick, action heroes have long been one of the most destructive forces in cinema in their pursuit of justice and revenge against their respective bad guys. As violent as some of the genre’s villains can be, it’s quite often the heroes who end up being the source of the most explosions. With many of the genre’s best heroes taking a heavy-handed approach, action thrives on protagonists who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.The action genre has long been seen as the flashiest, most destructive class of movie, with endless examples of movies that follow a hero on a one-man demolition of criminals, assassins and terrorists. Some of the most successful careers were built through action movies, especially when it came to the genre’s heyday between the 1980s and 1990s. Some of the most influential actors in the business got their start playing hard-boiled cops, solitary soldiers and rogue assassins who went on missions of revenge against their enemies. In all that time, billions of dollars in damage has been caused on the big screen by these impressive, driven heroes in their quest for justice and getting even.While genres like science fiction and thriller often do some merging of genres, action movies have a more overt, simple appeal to viewers. Instead of promising a lot of subtext or deep ideas, most action movies are more simple in a desire to just show relatable action heroes blowing stuff up and killing bad guys. This, for many, makes the genre the purest form of escapism. As much as many critics and moviegoers poke fun at Michael Bay’s endless stream of flashy explosive sequences, those movies play right into what their audience wants. This leaves open the question of who — in a never-ending line of action heroes — has racked up the most damage through their screen time.RELATED: Arnold Schwarzenegger Believes AI Has Made Terminator’s Dystopian Future ‘A Reality’
From Rambo to John Wick, action heroes have long been one of the most destructive forces in cinema in their pursuit of justice and revenge against their respective bad guys. As violent as some of the genre’s villains can be, it’s quite often the heroes who end up being the source of the most explosions. With many of the genre’s best heroes taking a heavy-handed approach, action thrives on protagonists who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
The action genre has long been seen as the flashiest, most destructive class of movie, with endless examples of movies that follow a hero on a one-man demolition of criminals, assassins and terrorists. Some of the most successful careers were built through action movies, especially when it came to the genre’s heyday between the 1980s and 1990s. Some of the most influential actors in the business got their start playing hard-boiled cops, solitary soldiers and rogue assassins who went on missions of revenge against their enemies. In all that time, billions of dollars in damage has been caused on the big screen by these impressive, driven heroes in their quest for justice and getting even.
While genres like science fiction and thriller often do some merging of genres, action movies have a more overt, simple appeal to viewers. Instead of promising a lot of subtext or deep ideas, most action movies are more simple in a desire to just show relatable action heroes blowing stuff up and killing bad guys. This, for many, makes the genre the purest form of escapism. As much as many critics and moviegoers poke fun at Michael Bay’s endless stream of flashy explosive sequences, those movies play right into what their audience wants. This leaves open the question of who — in a never-ending line of action heroes — has racked up the most damage through their screen time.
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