[Note: "Hanna" review is up next]
It was fun when the trend began nearly a dozen years ago - stylized martial arts turning action scenes into dance. But whatever happened to treating action sequences like real actions? A fight that might involve a gun, a makeshift weapon, or a hit that actually hurts.
If "Hanna," premiering this week, were to catch the latest action flick, she'd be stunned: Everybody fights like her, a trained teenage assassin, in movies nowadays.
Are martial arts ruining action movies? Check out the article on NY Magazine:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/are_martial_arts_ruining_action.html
It was fun when the trend began nearly a dozen years ago - stylized martial arts turning action scenes into dance. But whatever happened to treating action sequences like real actions? A fight that might involve a gun, a makeshift weapon, or a hit that actually hurts.
If "Hanna," premiering this week, were to catch the latest action flick, she'd be stunned: Everybody fights like her, a trained teenage assassin, in movies nowadays.
Are martial arts ruining action movies? Check out the article on NY Magazine:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/are_martial_arts_ruining_action.html