The phrase "a dark action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that is morally questionable, sinister, or harmful in nature.
Example: "The protagonist was faced with a difficult choice, one that would require him to commit a dark action to achieve his goals."
Alternatives: "a sinister act" or "a malevolent deed".
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug 13 , 2008(BUSINESS WIRE) — Eidos Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on behalf of DC Comics announce Batman: Arkham Asylum, a dark, action-packed videogame adventure for Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION(R 3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows in 2009.
(There are some dissenters: David Denby writes in The New Yorker that "It would be lovely to announce that the new Bond movie is scintillating, or at least rambunctiously exciting, but 'Skyfall,' in the recent mode of Christopher Nolan's 'Batman' films, is a gloomy, dark action thriller, and almost completely without the cynical playfulness that drew us to the series in the first place").
It would be lovely to announce that the new Bond movie is scintillating, or at least rambunctiously exciting, but "Skyfall," in the recent mode of Christopher Nolan's "Batman" films, is a gloomy, dark action thriller, and almost completely without the cynical playfulness that drew us to the series in the first place.
But the drama, created by Charlie Higson of The Fast Show, the Young James Bond novels and a slew of zombie horror tales, is a lavish, dark, action-packed caper with outbreaks of superhuman violence and comedy.
After Dark Action, a series of B pictures, is aimed at this slam-bang posse and arrives with barrels blazing.
It can't decide whether it wants to go the full Batman/Tintin spectrum of Pantone, with arch Chinese villains in opium dens, and the equivalent of a Roy Lichtenstein poster as plot, or simply be a dark police action movie – or even a quasi-morality play, exploring the gifting of the world's luck to an individual (Nesbitt), and thus fails on all three counts.
So says Giovanni Manzoni (Robert De Niro), a mobster in hiding, when explaining his pathological behavior in Luc Besson's dark action comedy "The Family".
As with other After Dark Action offerings, it's well-trod ground, if rendered with polish.
The director is John Hyams, the man behind After Dark Action's "Dragon Eyes".
