Borne Ultimaitum

In last weeks media lesson, we watched the opening few minutes to the film Borne Ultimaitum. Before we watched the film, we discussed what we expected from an action film.
What I expected from a action film:

• Male hero
• Guns
• Explosions
• Chases
• Large city
• Romantic side plot
• Fast pace
• Good guy wins in the end
• Good vs evil
• fight scenes, stunts
• Ticking clock senario

We were then introduced to the Crash Boom Bang theory. This is a theory which basically says that an 'action' film does not contain any crashes, explosions or fights, then it is not technically an action film. 

I think that after viewing the opening of the film Borne Ultimatum that it does fit my expectations of an action film. In the first few minutes we saw a number of fight scenes, and the use of weapons. These scenes were created using a lot of jump cuts and this created the fast pace that I expected. We then find out that there is an underlying love story, where our hero's girlfriend has been killed and he is looking for revenge. This underlying story causes the audience to be sympathetic to our hero. We also establish within the opening who the evil people in the film are. In conclusion I feel that the opening of the film Bourne Ultimatum displays all the typical conventions of a generic action film.