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THE 500 GREATEST ACTION FILMS/MOVIES OF ALL TIME. by PierreValerW | created - 05 Feb 2013 | updated - 04 Apr 2017 | Public. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 460 titles. 1. Gladiator (2000) R | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama. 8.5. Rate. 67 Metascore.
1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. 8.6. Rate. 75 Metascore. A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
1. Point Break (1991) R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller. 7.2. Rate. 59 Metascore. An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers. Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty. Votes: 195,878 | Gross: $43.22M. 2. Casino Royale (2006)
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- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) James Bond had been in a slump since 1974’s lackluster “The Man With the Golden Gun.” But Roger Moore’s third time as the secret agent ended up being one of 007’s biggest crowd-pleasers, as “You Only Live Twice” director Lewis Gilbert returned to the franchise, pairing the secret agent with Russian counterpart XXX, aka Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach), who was the perfect foil for Moore’s debonair spy.
- Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Tom Cruise had long since established himself as willing guinea pig for any and all death-defying physical stunts when time came to follow up his first blockbuster, “Top Gun” — so why wouldn’t he fly the actual Navy vessels that the characters pilot in “Maverick”?
- The Fugitive (1993) This update of the classic ’60s TV series leaps from the original premise into a game of cat-and-mouse between grumpy old men Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
- Vanishing Point (1971) This dusty, greasy classic follows the revved-up adventures of Kowalski (Barry Newman), a delivery driver amped on speed, racing the police and everyone else on the road to get a Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco in record time.
- 45 Point Break
- 44 Total Recall
- 43 Snowpiercer
- 42 Midnight Run
- 41 The Bourne Ultimatum
- 40 Casino Royale
- 39 Top Gun
- 38 Rambo: First Blood Part II
- 37 Top Gun: Maverick
- 36 The Fugitive
Point Break follows FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) who goes undercover and is quite new to the SoCal beach lifestyle. His job is to infiltrate a surfing gang suspected of robbing multiple banks while disguising themselves as United States presidents. Utah’s way in? Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi, the gang leader who lives a zen-like lifestyle, uninte...
This film follows Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a normal construction worker having abnormal dreams about Mars. He soon begins to suspect that his entire life on Earth may be a false product of his imagination, a computer-generated fantasy sold to him by a company that implants false memories into the minds of people. However, as soon as h...
Directed by Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer is a claustrophobic thriller set on a train that won’t stop circling around the globe, taking place in an alternate future where global warming has made Earth into an inhospitable frozen wasteland. The train setting acts as a microcosm of society itself, with different classes filling out specific sections of t...
In Midnight Run, Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) is a bounty hunter who is hired to bring an embezzling accountant named Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas (Charles Grodin) from New York to Los Angeles for a good price. However, his routine job spirals into an uncontrollable game when he has to deal with another bounty hunter, the FBI, the mafia, and a mad e...
Matt Damon reprises his role as CIA agent Jason Bourne, still looking for answers about his past life as a government assassin. However, when a secret operation from his Treadstone days threatens to expose him and his activities at the time, he must do everything he can to keep the Blackbriar details on the down-low. Now on the run as the target of...
Casino Royale, as in the 2006 reboot with Daniel Craig, goes back to the beginning of James Bond's career. After getting his first kill under his belt, Bond is dragged into a poker game that has even higher stakes than usual. Specifically, he's going up against a terrorist financier, Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), who weeps blood and has some panicke...
Top Gun introduces audiences to Tom Cruise's Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a reckless but talented fighter pilot who is sent to the titular Top Gun, the Navy's elite and A-class fighter weapons school. There, he'll have to get his act together and learn that he's not the only one flying for his team up there. The film has remained a cultural touchstone...
George P. Cosmatos' Rambo: First Blood Part II is quite different from the film that preceded it. First Blood was quiet and thoughtful, and essentially had Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) scurrying further and further underground to avoid conflict back home as a struggling Vietnam veteran. But the second film has him diving into action as he's sent back...
Read Our Review Both one of the greatest sequels of all time and one of the biggest hits to ever thrill audiences on the big screen (especially IMAX), Joseph Kosinski's Top Gun: Maverick is everything it should have been and more. The plot has Tom Cruise's Pete "Maverick" Mitchell sent back to Top Gun, but this time as an instructor. There, he enco...
Harrison Ford is perfectly cast as The Fugitive's Richard Kimble, who is on the hook for the murder of his wife. But he claims it was a one-armed man that did the deed, and there just so happened to be a one-armed assassin wandering around. Following a chance opportunity for an escape, Kimble scrambles to bring the right man to justice while being ...
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Aug 11, 2021 · Rolling Stone ranks 50 best action movies ever — from James Bond to John Wick, 'Black Panther' to 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'.
Apr 28, 2022 · We went through the most popular, top-earning, and the best-reviewed films to select what we believe are the best action movies and franchises ever made, in no particular order.
