Simplicity rules action movies. Never mind the armies of stunt men and effects specialists making us believe a muscle-bound lead hits with the power of an 18-wheeler, or the controlled explosions that look real but are mostly digitally rendered. Those bells and whistles will always be elaborate. But they're the fancy dress on what boils down to a very basic premise. For example, some entity assumes it can act with impunity and gets away with plenty of crimes . . . until it crosses a sleeping giant. That man, and it is usually a man, mounts a rampage to beat the devil, standing on behalf of not just himself but smallfolk everywhere.
