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18 Action Movies
Action movies where the set pieces are actually worth remembering. Car chases, fights, impossible missions and giant spectacles — but with enough story and personality to care what happens between them.
About these picks
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler, forging an alliance with a drifter in a desperate fight for survival.
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout
- Ethan Hunt and his team race against time after a mission goes wrong, facing off against assassins and former allies.
- The Raid
- A rookie SWAT team member must fight his way through a building filled with criminals to take down a ruthless drug lord.
- John Wick
- An ex-hitman is forced back into the criminal underworld he had abandoned after his car is stolen and puppy is killed.
- Die Hard
- An NYPD detective battles a group of German terrorists who have taken over a Los Angeles skyscraper during his wife's office Christmas party.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- A cyborg is sent back in time to protect a young John Connor from a more advanced liquid metal terminator.
- Aliens
- Fifty-seven years after her first encounter, Ripley returns to a hostile planet overrun by xenomorphs to rescue human colonists.
- Casino Royale
- Newly minted 007 James Bond must defeat a private banker to terrorists in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale.
- Top Gun: Maverick
- After three decades, Maverick trains a new squad of Top Gun graduates for a dangerous mission while confronting his past.
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat.
- Baby Driver
- A talented getaway driver relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best, until he meets the girl of his dreams.
- Heat
- A seasoned thief and an obsessive detective play a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game across Los Angeles, leading to an inevitable confrontation.
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Jason Bourne continues his quest to uncover his past and expose the architects of the secret program that created him.
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin seeks revenge on the team that betrayed her.
- The Matrix
- Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
- Speed
- A bomb expert must keep a bus above 50 mph to prevent a bomb from detonating, all while dealing with a mad bomber.
- Gladiator
- A Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's jealous son, leading him to seek revenge as a gladiator.
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against Nazis to find the mythical Ark of the Covenant before they can use its power.