Males have dominated the action genre for many years, playing the protagonists in every film. Therefore females were given roles in action films purely because of their physical attraction and to be used as sex objects. Stereotypically women got the passive roles whilst men adopted the active roles. However certain films such as ‘Resident Evil Extinction’ directed by Russell Mulcahy in 2007, portrayed women differently in this male dominated genre. Due to feminism in society, cinema has adapted to the change and has become less patriarchal.