The modern action genre in film has produced some wildly entertaining films. There are the deadly ballets of the John Wick franchise, the non-stop beats of the Extractions films and the genre-bending exploits of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. But there's one film series that purposefully looks to the past when devising new entries and has zeroed in on a tonal throughline to the past that benefits their style of bombast.
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