Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' is like every action-adventure film squeezed into four minutes

It's a little Sin City. A little Kill Bill. A little X-Men. With some Tron and The Fifth Element thrown in for good measure.

Taylor Swift's star-studded Bad Blood video, which debuted at the top of Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, packed in more than a dozen friends and fellow stars, from Selena Gomez to Cindy Crawford. It also worked in so many movie and video references that we'll be analyzing it for days.

Not only that, it introduced a whole new Kendrick Lamar rap section to Swift's song.



The Joseph Kahn-directed clip began with Swift and Gomez as assassins Catastrophe and Arsyn, taking out an squadron of guys. But then Arsyn turned on Catastrophe, knocking her out a high-rise window and onto a classic blue convertible. Apparently, she got revived, RoboCop-style, becoming bigger and badder than ever, able to blast through walls and such. From there, it got a little confusing. But so much stuff blew up and everybody looked so cool we didn't really care.

And neither did Twitter, which blew up faster than the buildings in the video.