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Superhero movies ruined spy movies


The one thing I couldn't stop noticing the entire time while watching this movie was that the main characters never actually endager anyone innocent. Even when they hurt some people, it's played down, way down. The filmmakers tried so hard to hide any scene showing the main characters hurting people.

As if a top secret agent trained to do dirty stuffs the goverment can't do has to uphold the moral high ground... just like a superhero would be. So what were the dirty jobs they've done that even the goverment couldn't do? That doesn't make any sense.

In a superhero story that makes sense because they are, well, superheroes. Not just heroes, but super heroes. They'll protect and defend good people, classic superheroes don't even kill the bad guys.

But they are supposed to be that way. In context of a fantasy comicbook universe, it's part of what being a superhero is.

Top secret special agents / spies / hitmen on the other hand, even equally fictional, are not supposed to be that way.

I noticed this not only in this movie, many other movies also do this. I suspect they're trying to emulate the success of superhero movies and probably concluded that the recipe is to make the main characters basically behaves like superheroes no matter who they're supposed to be.

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