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The Most Worst Action Movies
The action movie genre is a strange beast. The balance between drama and bathos in an action film is everything; depending on the quality of writing and acting, an action film can keep an audience in a state of excitement or push them to paroxysms of laughter. Here are ten examples of the kind of action movies that aim for the profound but reach great depths of absurdity.
“Commando” (1985)
As a film, “Commando” is actually not bad. It’s certainly exciting; however, the film has some of the most unintentionally funny scenes of any movie in recent memory, most of which come courtesy of star Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself no slouch when it comes to cheesy one-liners. Whether Arnold is lifting an entire tree back to his house, opening an extensive gun storage room with an elaborate passcode of “1 3,” or dangling his enemies over cliffs while delivering deadpan puns, “Commando” has a lot of dramatic moments that inadvertently read as comic relief.
“Catwoman” (2004)
While audiences of today have a king’s ransom of good action hero films to choose from, there was once a time when the genre seemed to be sinking fast. The form’s nadir was arguably “Catwoman,” a cringe-worthy Halle Berry vehicle that had a $100,000,000 budget and very little to show for it. A scene in which Catwoman plays basketball is notorious for its corniness, and Berry’s career seems to have never recovered from the critical thrashing “Catwoman” received.
