Codes and Conventions of an action genre

All action films follow the typical conventions by including fast paced dramatic music to help emphasise the tense moments to create suspense and to match the action. There is usually a clear binary opposition between the main protagonist and the main antagonist. They all seem to follow the same structure with the hero saving the day but before this he must be involved in an action scene which could be a chase scene, fight scene or a shoot out. Either way the hero gets to a final confrontation with the main antagonist and eventually saves the day but before has to create some epic explosions.