Originally Posted by
tjarvis
You can chalk it up to misogyny or a failure of imagination, but I tend to have a hard time suspending belief at an action film where a female character, especially one who is waifish at best, mows through a bunch of guys and outfights everyone. Stuff like Underworld or superhero films where they are explicitly powered, or even things like Atomic Blonde which had choreography that supported it as well the actual damage being done not just being shrugged off work for me, but a general movie like Kate or Gunpowder Milkshake or that upcoming Jessica Chastain tend to be hard for me to buy into.