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Jan 19, 2024 · Bradley Russell, Molly Edwards. last updated 19 January 2024. Our picks of the best Netflix action movies to stream right now. Comments. (Image credit: IMDb) It can be hard to find the best...
- John Wick
- Triple Frontier
- Bullet Train
- Pacific Rim
- The Woman King
- Fury
- Extraction II
- Day Shift
- The Gray Man
- Spenser Confidential
An endlessly entertaining, film noir style action-epic, John Wick will surely go down in history as one of the most iconic cult classics in recent history. After retired hitman John Wick’s (Keanu Reeves) dog is murdered and car stolen by an over-entitled son of a Russian mobster, he finds the motivation to come out of retirement and will stop at no...
Ben Affleck, Oscar Issac and Pedro Pascal have been the talk of the town due to their recent roles - Pascal in The Last of Us and The Mandalorian, Issac in Moon Knight, and Affleck returning to the director’s chair with Air. A Netflix original movie, Triple Frontier, managed to unite the trio together as former soldiers looking to seize $75 million...
Murphy’s Law puts forth the theory that if something can go wrong, it more than likely will. David Leitch puts this theory to the test in his latest action thriller Bullet Train, and the result is carefully choreographed chaos. Brad Pitt stars as unlucky assassin Ladybug, who takes a simple job moving a briefcase full of cash on a bullet train in T...
An absolutely over-the-top action film from Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim takes inspiration from all of its animated, mecha-suit predecessors and turns it into a wild, live-action epic of comic book proportions. Continuously under attack from giant monsters emerging mysteriously from the sea, the world’s militaries come together to create Jaegers...
It’s rare for a action-packed period piece, let alone one with a predominately Black cast, to be greenlit. Yet The Woman King not only made it to theaters, but it continues to cement Gina Prince-Bythewood as one of the most dynamic action directors working today. Based on the real life story of the Agojie army, the film literally opens with an inte...
A gritty, gruesome tale that cleverly shows its bleakness through makeup and cinematography, Fury shows a unique perspective from one of the most intense military factions to fight in World War II. Impossibly outnumbered behind enemy lines toward the end of the war (April 1945), Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) leads his five-man crew in their Sh...
Ramping up the over-the-top action sequences, Extraction 2 brings even more outrageously gratuitous violence and nearly non-stop action than its predecessor. After his miraculous survival from almost certainly fatal wounds in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) accepts his next mission to infiltrate a maximum security prison and save th...
Vampire hunters have been a staple of action films. Who can forget the first time they saw Blade take out a nightclub full of vampires, or Buffy Summers staking the undead on a weekly basis? Day Shiftputs a new spin on the subgenre, painting vampire hunting as a job - and Jamie Foxx’s Bud Jablonski is less concerned with saving the world than he is...
Joe and Anthony Russo are best known for their four film streak in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and ending with Avengers: Endgame. Now they’ve turned to the espionage genre with The Gray Man. Based on the novel by Mark Greaney, it follows Court Gentry/Sierra Six (Ryan Gosling), a highly skilled o...
Following a clear trend for this list, Spenser Confidential is an action comedy that leans toward heist with a bonus of funny Boston accents. Recently released from prison due to his history of violence and disregard for the law, ex-cop Spenser (Mark Wahlberg) and his newfound partner Hawk (Winston Duke) go on a rampage to serve some long-overdue j...
Apr 3, 2024 · We select the absolute best action movies on the streaming service, including ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,’ ‘Godzilla,’ ‘The Batman,’ and more.
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Mar 25, 2024 · The best Netflix action movies are: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (2022) “Everything Everywhere All at Once” dominated last year’s Oscars, taking home seven golden...
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- The Batman (2022) No stranger to bat-related jokes from his Twilight heyday, Robert Pattinson embraces his dark and moody roots by slipping into the Dark Knight's cape, along with Gerard Way-like hair and thick, black eyeliner.
- Birds of Prey (2020) "There's no wrong way to process a breakup" is one interpretation of the message behind Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), the 2020 action film and eighth addition to the DC Extended Universe.
- Bullet Train (2022) The only thing that moves faster than Japan's state-of-the-art transit system is the plot of this Brad Pitt-led ensemble action comedy.
- Cold Pursuit (2019) Liam Neeson has established himself in Hollywood as the purveyor of characters not to be trifled with. In Cold Pursuit, he once again plays a father seeking vengeance for wrongs perpetrated upon his family, only this time, he lives in a Colorado resort town called Kehoe where he works as a snowplow driver.
16 Best Action Movies to Get Your Heart Pumping - Netflix Tudum. Go on a thrill ride with action-packed movies like Extraction, The Gray Man, RRR, and The Old Guard.
Apr 3, 2024 · Army of the Dead. Netflix. 1. Army of the Dead (2021) Hot on the heels of a long-in-gestation triumph with Zack Snyder 's Justice League this spring, the...
