Crystal Skull is a "silly action film". A guy swinging on vines at catching up to a fast moving jeep? Hiding in a fridge and getting blown miles away by a nuke and still surviving? lol.
Not at all - it's an action film done right with an entertaining cast, and definitely meets exceptions (though you said yourself above that the genre is silly so I doubt you're giving an objective review of the film - just hating on the genre as a whole. Too many critics on the site though pointed out essentially how the film was "all action" without a lot of depth and used that to factor in a lowered score - which is dumb, because that's coming to a movie with false expectations.
For the record, I love action films, but only the good ones.
Death Race was trash because (and I'm really grasping here, I was drinking when I watched it and it was years ago), Paul Anderson doesn't know how to balance things like satire and action. The film had a completely over-the-top premise and exactly zero fun. Watch the original film which was perfect with the satire and, given the state of celebrity worship and reality programming in our current culture, kind of ahead of its time. Death Race is forgettable trash.
If action makes someone squeamish nothing's stopping them from watching My Little Pony: The Movie, or Pee Wee's Big Adventure but simply having content that makes someone squeamish is a poor reason to bash a movie.
Most of the above films aren't my type (I'm not big on Superhero films, or monster films) . But I'd been thinking about checking out 22 Jump Street. In a way though this address what I said about the reviews being inconsistent.
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