After a summer of bloated action-comedies and comic-book adaptations, it’s easy to forget that action movies used to be interesting. In the late ’60s and early ’70s mavericks like John Boorman and Jean Pierre-Melville made films that emphasized suspense and tension over set pieces. The protagonists were more emotionally complex, even though they barely spoke. And every punch, gunshot or car crash hurt .
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