Novocaine (2025)

In the '80s and early '90s we had the action movies that are now considered the classic formula. Usually, a musclebound lead character plows his way through an army or faceless minions to take out the bad guy at the top, with that guy being anything from a ruthless warlord to a corrupt politician using the local thugs to do his dirty work. They were all of the type and, although we just considered them action films at the time, the pattern is noticeable since they pretty much disappeared by the end of the 1990s. Before that, and quite noticeable for a particular style, were the action movies of the 1970s, often featuring some sort of major vehicle chase - or two or three - at some point in the film. The first decade of the 21st century was not known for action movies and, when Hollywood did churn them out, they were noisy, empty, CGI-filled spectacles that were not even fun to watch as popcorn movies. The feeling one gets when watching a Fast and Furious film or ...