Global Gladiators: How One-Battle-After-Another Movies Became the Planet’s Favorite Peace Treaty
The planet has become one long corridor of consecutive boss fights. From the multiplexes of Manila to the streaming queues of Stockholm, the dominant cinematic export of the moment is the “one-battle-after-another” epic: a genre in which the plot is just a polite intermission between choreographed mayhem. Think “John Wick” with a diplomatic passport, or…
