And now that people have that toolbox in their hand, you can look at Fast and Furious, you can look at these things with preposterous action, that just makes no sense whatsoever.” “I mean, with the visual effects and so forth, they seem to have gotten more preposterous to me. “I think if anything, in some ways they’ve deteriorated,” he says frankly. Jackson).Įven though he’s back in the genre for which he is perhaps best known, Campbell tells Den of Geek that the manner in which action films are made has changed drastically over the decades - and not for the better. The New Zealand-born director is perhaps best known as the director of not one but two of the most successful and acclaimed movies in the James Bond franchise: 1995’s GoldenEye, which introduced Pierce Brosnan in the role, and 2006’s Casino Royale, which reinvented 007 in the form of a more minimalist, hard-edged Daniel Craig.Īlong the way, Campbell’s had more success ( The Mask of Zorro) and some elaborate failures ( Green Lantern), and he returns to the big screen this week for the first time in four years with The Protégé, a violent, very gritty thriller starring Maggie Q and Michael Keaton as deadly professional assassins who are drawn to each other as the former sets out to avenge the murder of her mentor ( Samuel L. Martin Campbell has done an action thriller or two in his time.

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