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n. A motion picture whose storyline involves fast-paced activity and conflict, usually including such elements as a heroic protagonist, violent fights, acrobatic stunts, chase scenes, and gunplay.
Usage examples of "action movie".
One thing led to another, and one day I was sent out on an audition for a big action movie.
He was not there, but I could hear his voice and I found him talking with Albert Connor, one of the programmers, about an action movie he'd seen over the weekend.
It is that, in an action movie, what the hero does is in every way morally justifiable, because he is the hero of an action movie.
He found an action movie, cops and drug dealers, lots of running and jumping and shooting, fistfights and car chases and explosions.
Sitting in the back of the chopper, with the open case on his lap, Roy was riveted by the performance, which was like something out of an action movie, though seen from one monotonous angle.
Bakr had learned long ago that standing in the middle of the street and firing off a whole magazine, like Rambo in some action movie, was never going to kill the enemies of Allah.
It was 100 degrees in his apartment, hotter than the fires of Hell itself an action movie hero would say if there really was such a thing as an action movie hero.