Even the unexpected flop, Last Action Hero, was sold purely on the alleged strength of Arnold Schwarzenegger post-T2.
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He looks more like an aging Hollywood action hero than a genius inventor.
In Walking Tall (2004), a veteran is undoubtedly heroic - he's played by action hero Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock.
That movie did more than make the fedora and whip cool, and actor Harrison Ford a rare two-franchise action hero.
The wisecracking, musclebound, misogynist action hero had already appeared in several games, but the January 1996 release of Duke Nukem 3D made him a star.
Perez plays a womanizing yet gallant action hero of the 18th Century, who mocks war but ends up joining the army to avoid marrying yet another of his conquests.
That team mapped out a second, reformulated movie career, one that relies heavily both on what they hope will be moviegoers' nostalgia for their star of yesteryear, and empathy for an aging action hero.
Willwas recognized as a 2012 Hasbro Community Action Hero, an award recognizing outstanding young service leaders presented by Hasbro in partnership with generationOn, the global youth service enterprise of Points of Light.
Duke Nukem burst onto the scene in 1991 as the wise-cracking, cigar-chomping, woman-loving tough guy who must save the Earth from invading aliens, and does so with all the irreverence and hyper-masculinity of a Hollywood action hero.
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Those who dismiss Arnold Schwarzenegger as a robotic action hero should remember that Ronald Reagan was also dismissed as a joke when he first ran for governor and he beat his opponent by more than a million votes.
The dispatcher, having started out as a klutz so ordinary that he wears a tie and a sleeveless sweater, morphs into an action hero, which is just one of a cluster of wild implausibilities that crowd out the cogency of the film.
The action-hero movie was co-financed by DMG, a Chinese media company that has the rights to distribute the film in China.
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His transformation into an action-hero involves grabbing his trusty garden tool, donning his son's baseball catcher's vest, and slipping on roller-blade kneepads.
Thankfully, that voyeurism starts to tone down as Croft begins to assemble her arsenal and return to the action-hero status she once held.
According to USA Today's Claudia Puig, the "obnoxious, over the top and often dull" result constitutes "a feeble attempt to rehash action-hero glories".
But Pollack and his team do come up with a more logical line of action and give the hero and his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) a smidgen of self-awareness. (The sexy, skeptical Tripplehorn handles the challenge far better than Cruise does.) And they soup up the side characters.
Here again, the mood is dark, the action is violent and the handsome hero, Johan "JW" Westlund, has problems, shall we say, in the area of morality.
Then he'll go home and nod with satisfaction at his own little armory, telling himself that when the time comes for him to become the hero of his own action movie, he'll be ready.
For better and worse, this flawed but touching hero is a man of action, revealing himself through what he does rather what he says.
Not until the arrival of Doc Ock (Alfred Molina), a many-limbed scientist who likes to do antisocial things to subway cars, is our hero moved to rejoin the action.
"I wanted the movie to be a big movie-going experience, full of action, full of emotion and full of the biggest super hero in the world, " Snyder said Tuesday before giving the Las Vegas movie theater convention CinemaCon a brief glimpse.
In a bold move, he embarks on an action-packed adventure and sets out to prove to everyone that he is a true hero with a big heart.
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