Originally Posted by
godisawesome
Yeah, I‘d say that “female driven action movies” kind of require the females to be driving the action, not just females being part of the action. So neither HP nor Twilight would really count, as HP is driven by Harry even though Hermione, Mrs. Weasley, and there’s do a lot action themselves, and Twilight does it’s darnedest to keep Bella away from the main action for most of its run, and even having a fake action scene in its final film for the climax when she *is* ostensibly ready to throw down.
Good rule of thumb to apply: if the main character who matters most to the story is a girl and if she’s the champion of the climactic struggle and it’s an action film overall, than it’s much, much more likely to be a female driven action film.
Ripley slugging it out with the Xenomorph in Aliens? Female driven action film. The girl with psychic abilities taking down Jason in that one Friday the 13th? Probably not, because it’s a horror film. Black Widow in Avengers? Not a female driven action film because she’s the only girland the dudes are just as big if not more important to the climax.
Rey in The Force Awakens? Probably counts, because she’s clearly the main champion of the final confrontation with Kylo. Rey in The Last Jedi? Maybe not... because not only is her role diminished in favor of Luke and Kylo, but those two also have the climactic struggle, not her. Rey in The Rise of Skywalker? More likely to be a female driven action film than The Last Jedi, since she *is* the main hero of the final battle with Palpatine... but perhaps less than in The Force Awakens, as the film inserts a “Cinderella” element to the last bit and is trying to make Ben Solo Rey’s equal.