What would have to happen to stop action films from being called mindless entertainment?

I read reviews that call films like Money Train and Blade mindless action films. Is that because of lack of interest in the story of bad character development I wonder. I think it might be a combo of both and also a matter of individual tastes. I guess people are looking to connect with the characters on screen in a personal way and they don't feel that Hollywood films or any movies produced by major companies like 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema, or Touchstone Pictures manage to do any of that but just focus on visual effects without giving any attention to the story, the credibility of the acting, or even if any of the cause and effect of each scene is even logical. Due to this, I think independent films (even without the major money endorsements of large corporations) are much more respected in the film community overall because they actually use their talents to write a plot and characters that stay with the viewer long after the movie ends. And personally I think meaningful films like perhaps Menace II Society and Platoon get blasted by some people for merely the extent of death and human suffering and violence and blood shown on the screen while ignoring the point of the plot: that uncontrolled anger only breeds more pain (soldiers killing civilians or thugs killing merchants and innocent bystanders in drive by shootings in the heat of anger).