5 Action Movies That Are Shameless Rip-offs
The world of film has a long and proud history of following leaders, from small indie mockbusters to the big studios sticking to what's already been proven. Rip-offs are a proud tradition in every art medium, and while they vary wildly in quality, they have a hard time hiding their illicit source material.
The biggest names in action cinema today are largely inspired by comic books or remade from earlier classics. So many modern action movies are simple adaptations of an existing style to a barely-present story. When so many action movies just trade off of the current trend, it takes a lot of work to stand out as a rip-off.
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Die Hard is, in many ways, the quintessential American action blockbuster. John McTiernan's 1988 classic sticks one hard-bitten public servant against a squad of heavily armed terrorists in a seemingly unwinnable scenario with hostages' lives on the line. It inspired its own subgenre of knockoffs. Countless films boil down to the same central plot line with a new location and star. Sudden Death puts Jean-Claude Van Damme in the role of Darren McCord, a hard-nosed firefighter who finds himself in a classic Die Hard situation. It's the same basic story, but set in a hockey stadium instead of a skyscraper, with a daughter instead of a wife, and a lot of mascot costumes. The film obviously pales in comparison to the movie it rips off, but it's one of Van Damme's best. It's absurd in a way that suggests some level of self-awareness, which is so often absent from films that could be fun.
Another feature that inspired a world of imitators and knock-offs was Paul Verhoeven's Robocop. It's fairly cheap to dress a man up in a cop outfit, add something to obscure his face,
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