Non-linear movies are fun sometimes.

Its a big reason why films likeMementoandPulp Fictionare so revered.

Its directness was likely a reason for its success; a contributing reason as to why it got sequels.

Theo scorting Kee through a crowd in Children of Men

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The Blues Brothers - 1980 (1)

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The Viking Amleth, played by Alexander Skarsgård, lumbers through a village, covered in blood in The Northman.

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Tommy Lee Jones points a gun at Harrison Ford in ‘The Fugitive’

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Snowpiercer - 2013 (1)

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Keanu Reeves as the title character holding his gun in the first ‘John Wick’ (2014).

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Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Commando

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Lee Marvin as John Reisman poses with a pistol

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Indiana Jones being pulled by a car in Raiders of the Lost Ark

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