Action cliche's

• The action genre generally appeals to males, but has some female fans. Like horror films and romance films, action films contain many cliche moments.

• One cliche is that the hero/heroine is very masculine, and mostly walks around in skimpy clothes to show off their muscles. This makes the males who are watching the film aspire to be like him and the females think about if they had him.

• Another cliche is that the bad guy is foreign and has a very strong accent. This is very popular to a British audience, so appeals to them, making them want to watch it. The villain is also usually homosexual/effeminate, and has big body guards with guns to protect him. This is cliche as in most action films, there are a lot of bad guys, and only one good guy who has to go up against everyone, and somehow always manages to succeed and win. This is effective to the audience as even when they think everything is going to be over, and the bad guy is going to win, the tables are always turned. 

• Another cliche is the fight scene or 'punch up's' there is always a fight between the two opposing sides, mostly including guns where no matter what gun is used (machine gun, shot gun) the good guy never seems to get hurt. He always manages to dodge all the bullets. This is a cliche moment as in real life, if a machine gun was being shot at you, you would not be able to dodge it and would be dead. 

• There are also fast paced scene and chase scenes which create tension for the audience, and make you wonder if the characters are going to get hurt during them or if they are going to manage to kill the bad guy during them. There are also plenty of explosions, and somehow the good guy always seems to jump out of them without an injury, when in reality you would get some deep injury which could be life threatening. 

• Another cliche is the self surgery that the characters almost always has to perform on himself, as he always seems to manage to injure himself by for example, standing on glass. This is effective as the audience want him to be okay, and be able to fix his foot and still go on to fight the bad guy and save the woman. Which is another cliche as the woman is always hopeless and needs rescuing by the big muscular hero.