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Die Hard (1988
- Die Hard (1988) was voted the best action film of all time with 21 votes in a 2014 poll of 50 directors, actors, critics, and experts conducted by Time Out New York.
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The Top 250 Greatest Action Movies of All-Time. by Eric-Scissorhands • Created 12 years ago • Modified 6 years ago. Lights, Camera, & ACTION! These are what make going to the cinema fun, exciting, and thrilling.
- The Wages of Fear
- Seven Samurai
- Goldfinger
- Shaft
- Enter The Dragon
- The Driver
- Raiders of The Lost Ark
- First Blood
- Robocop
- Die Hard
The Wages of Fear would not necessarily play as an action film in the eyes of a modern audience, but if you watch enough action movies and understand the vocabulary of their pacing, and the ways in which directors build modern action set pieces, then Henri-Georges Clouzot's thriller about four men transporting extremely volatile nitroglycerine acro...
It really is impossible to overstate Akira Kurosawa's influence on virtually every genre of film in the years since his extraordinary movies began reaching a global audience, and Seven Samuraiis perhaps the peak example of that. It's more of a historical drama than an action film, but as a precursor to action cinema as we now know it, the film prov...
It begins with Sean Connery pulling off a wetsuit to reveal an immaculate white tuxedo beneath and ends with a mid-flight fight scene. For those reasons and everything in between, from the laser that threatens to cut Bond in half to the ejector seat in the Aston Martin, Goldfinger stands today as not just the best Bond of the Connery era, but the f...
Shaftcame around at a time when "action" movies weren't nearly as fast-paced as they are now, but that does nothing to diminish the impact the film still has as a breakthrough moment for Black action heroes. Richard Roundtree remains charisma incarnate in the title role, and while Shaft spends much of the film chasing down leads at a leisurely stro...
Bruce Lee was already an international star by the time Enter the Dragon was on its way to theaters, but this is the film—released just one month after his sudden death at the age of 32—that forever made Lee a legend. Steeped in classic Hong Kong kung fu movie style with layers of emerging Western action sensibilities creeping in, Lee's final compl...
The plot of Walter Hill's The Driver begins in a place that sets it firmly in crime drama territory, as a detective (Bruce Dern) tries to spring a trap on a talented getaway driver (Ryan O'Neal) through a job that's meant to be a setup. But then Hill starts playing with the very concept of car chases, switching up the motivation each time, until th...
The legend goes that Steven Spielberg wanted to make a Bond movie, George Lucas countered with an idea inspired by adventure serials, and the result is cinema's favorite whip-cracking archaeologist. However it came about, Raiders of the Lost Arkstill holds up as an absolute masterpiece of action-adventure cinema, combining Spielberg's natural visua...
Though the subsequent Rambo sequels became increasingly bloody exercises in absolute machismo, Ted Kotcheff's original film remains the best in the series because it is much more fascinated with interior pain than exterior. In what still stands as a remarkably measured performance, Sylvester Stallonegives us a weary searcher wandering through an Am...
As much a satire of Reagan's America as it is a sci-fi action blowout, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop is a film that plays now as a movie that simultaneously picks apart and revels in the violence-obsessed, sensationalized genre cinema of the 1980s. Verhoeven is happy to comment on everything from corporate greed to corrupt policing to the American obses...
A renegade cop, a team of terrorists with a secret motive, a Christmas party gone awry, a skyscraper loaded with explosives, and Reginald VelJohnson. Die Hard really does have everything, and director John McTiernan made sure that all of those elements came together for a film that still works like a Swiss watch, perfectly timed without a millimete...
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- 'Casino Royale' (2006) Director: Martin Campbell. The James Bond series is one of the longest-running in cinema history, and it's a vitally important one within the action genre as a whole.
- 'The Bourne Ultimatum' (2007) Director: Paul Greengrass. Beginning with The Bourne Identity in 2002, the series about Jason Bourne - a CIA assassin struggling to recollect his past - proved hugely influential for the action genre.
- 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019) Directors: Anthony and Joe Russo. The impact of Avengers: Endgame is only truly felt when one's seen the majority of the MCU movies that came before it.
- 'RRR' (2022) Director: S.S. Rajamouli. In a year when some people began to express a certain amount of superhero fatigue, RRR stepped up to the plate and showed the world how modern action blockbusters should work.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger (T-800), Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor), Edward Furlong (John Connor) Run-Time: 2h 16m. Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%
- Die Hard (1988) Cast: Bruce Willis (John McClane), Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber), Alexander Godunov (Karl) Run-Time: 2h 11m. Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% Where To Watch: Hulu.
- The Matrix (1999) Cast: Keanu Reeves (Neo), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus) Run-Time: 2h 16m. Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83% Where To Watch: Max.
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Cast: Tom Hardy (Max Rockatansky)), Charlize Theron (Imperator Furiosa), Nicholas Hoult (Nux) Run-Time: 2h. Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97%
- 'The Dark Knight' (2008) IMDb Rating: 9.0/10. Nolan’s second installment in the titular trilogy, The Dark Knight, is still among the best live-action portrayals of Batman.
- 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' (2003) IMDb Rating: 9.0/10. Based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s eponymous 1955 novel, director Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King masterfully weaves together the major storylines depicted in the first two movies of the trilogy.
- 'Inception' (2010) IMDb Rating: 8.8/10. Often cited alongside the best sci-fi movies of all time, director Christopher Nolan’s Inception follows a group of professional thieves led by Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio).
- 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' (2001) IMDb Rating: 8.8/10. The film that first transported countless fans to Middle-earth, The Fellowship of the Ring depicts the fantastical story of Frodo, whose fate becomes intertwined with the One Ring.
1987 1h 49m R. 7.6 (277K) Rate. 68 Metascore. Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers. Director Richard Donner Stars Mel Gibson Danny Glover Gary Busey.
Jun 2, 2024 · Be a real action hero and vote up your favorite movies in the action genre. Latest additions: Security, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, City Hunter. Most divisive: Seven Samurai. Over 33.6K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The 300+ Best Action Movies Ever Made.
