It is understandable that each story needs an antagonist, but when the focus of the movie becomes not the motivation of the antagonist but to paint a group of people **as** antagonists, then the movie starts to suffer. There is a stark difference between terrorists motivated by an agenda that the heroes have to deal with in True Lies or a Die Hard movie or even a criminal network in something like a later Rambo movie and a movie that sets out to be spiteful just to be spiteful against a group, to paint them as the antagonists not because the movie needs antagonists but because the movie has an…
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