Taste of Cinema's the 10 Most Underrated Action Movies of the 2010s

"Action films tend to stick to a formula: the protagonist is either an underdog everyman that gains strength and eventually beats their enemy, or they're already heroes that continue on with their action-packed lives. More often than not, it's good versus evil with good winning in the end. Action movies that stick to the formula have a better chance at finding an audience due to its familiarity while critical success follows similarly.The action genre is not known for experimenting with its format. Action films also tend not to be viewed as art but a piece of entertainment at best and a commodity at worst. When an action film comes along that plays with the genre's conventions, mixes in other genres, and doesn't provide the clear-cut good guy/bad guy dynamic, audiences stay away and critics don't know what to make of it."