Pretty much all of the resident evil series that he did, and the alien v predator movie

The resident evil stuff, he’s got a distinct action style. It manages to get the balance between being showy enough for movies with staying story based. Like, you know how some movies the stunts and explosions and such become the focus of the movie rather than the plot? He’s good at not going that far, but still making it a spectacle.

And he’s good at doing action while still giving a sense of progression. The individual scenes move the story forward. Which is partially about the script, but direction is where the details come in, and it’s the details that make a movie be more than just a series of fights and explosions with dialogue in between.

Like, in the first resident evil, the way he used the dogs. It gives you information about the “zombies”, brings tension, and delivers an eventual payoff in action.

Now, is it high art? No. I don’t think anything he’s done even approaches that. Even the three musketeers movie is a divergence from the literary origins of the story. I don’t see that as a bad thing. But it is an easy thing to screw up and turn into schlock.

He has a wheelhouse, and he stays with it. Pretty much, he does action movies with a secondary genre with his wife (he and Jovovich are married). Within that scope, he turns out very watchable movies. I’d even say that he’s damn good at turning out action movies overall. A lot of his can stand up to anyone else doing action. If he has a weakness, it’s as a writer more than as a director. His dialogue can be stilted.