A bit of a tangent: James Bamford, who directed many, many, many episodes of ARROW and established the overall visual style of the show (heightened, exaggerated superhero fantasy) directed a movie called AIR FORCE ONE DOWN. This is a very silly yet incredibly self-serious direct to streaming film about Secret Service Agent Allison Miles (played by Katherine McNamara who was Oliver's daughter Mia on ARROW) who has to defend the President of the United States (Ian Bohen) when Air Force One is hijacked and Allison and the president have to parachute into hostile territory.
Bamford is an amazing TV director who seems be working on a maybe $5 million budget and Bamford capably makes it look like a $10 million movie, filmed in Bulgaria, using stock footage and greenscreen backgrounds to create the feeling of Washington, DC and TV quality sets to show a somewhat spartan but adequate Air Force One interior.
Bamford added a real sense of myth and legend and a larger than life quality to ARROW, and AIR FORCE ONE DOWN attempts to do the same with sweeping shots of the White House, of Air Force One, of the president's motorcade... while keeping shots angled to avoid having to show too many cars or extras, and with a booming orchestral based score to convey reverence and importance to America's political landmarks. This style, applied to superhero costumes and combat, seemed joyfully fantastic; applied to US fixtures, it seems... awkwardly jingoistic.
There's a crisp efficiency to this movie as character names are established in onscreen text. There's a lot of silliness that seems fine on ARROW but absurd in a more 'realistic' situation such as the absurd ease with which terrorists infiltrate Air Force One.
But I am mostly watching for the combat, to watch Katherine McNamara's Allison Miles dodge, punch, kick, roll, leap, dive and beat the hell out of angry men in all the ways I wished we could have seen her do on that GREEN ARROW AND THE CANARIES series that didn't get picked up. There is a terrifying savagery to McNamara's action sequences where she tears apart villains in a way that the CW would never have been willing to broadcast.
There's an insane sequence where Miles alone guns down what has to be 40 soldiers as she storms through an enemy base and conveniently, no one ever comes at her from behind while her back is turned, all in an attempt at one prolonged tracking shot with cuts masked by morphing or strobing lights or McNamara's hair whipping past the camera.
Also interestingly, Bamford insists on letting Miles get injured and slowed, whereas ARROW's superheroes could take blow after blow and never miss a step. Bamford making McNamara's character endure injury and pain adds a sense of peril for Miles that Mia Smoak never had.
If you ever wonder what the ARROW house style of direction would look like on a non DC property, AIR FORCE ONE DOWN is probably it. It's comes off as a ridiculously self-important B-movie... but still kind of fun.