Best Action Movies

  • Wanted

    Wanted (R, 2008)

    James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann
    Wesley's (James McAvoy) life is over - his pathetic old one, anyway... Fortunately, it is all becaus... read moree of a girl. Enter sizzling-hot Fox (Angelina Jolie), who crashes into his life and introduces him to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins, led by the enigmatic Sloan (Morgan Freeman). Seems Wes's long-lost father was killed while working for the Fraternity and Wes has been selected to target the rogue member who murdered him. But before he can complete his assignment, Wes must first uncover the dark secrets behind the Fraternity in order to determine his own destiny. -- (C) Universal
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      Underneath all of that is great visual effects and quality action, as well as an unexpected twist in the storyline even though it's fairly standard in action f
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb534102268: Great action movie! Good twist in the story line!! (Poor mice though!)
      Reviewed 3 days days ago
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      fb100000913293189: Wanted
      Bit of humour, action and drama.
      Angelina good as always cold and SEXY!
      In that case everything is possible.
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
  • Live Free or Die Hard

    Live Free or Die Hard (PG-13, 2007)

    Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Cliff Curtis, Maggie Q
    An old-fashioned cop emerges to foil a high-tech attack on the country's computer infrastructure as ... read moreBruce Willis brings back one of the biggest action franchises in screen history. It's been over a decade since audiences last saw New York cop John McClane (Willis), but now, as the world's greatest criminal mastermind (Timothy Olyphant) attempts to cripple the entire country with an innovative act of technological terrorism, only one cop can insure that the integrity of the system stays intact. In this, the fourth installment of the long-running action series, Underworld director Len Wiseman picks up the torch formerly carried by directors John McTiernan and Renny Harlin to helm a script penned by Mark Bomback. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb818380692: I liked the action. A little unrealistic action scenes but I liked it nonetheless.
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
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      A job well done in terms of entertainment and action. Can't quite compare to the original still, but the fact you still have Bruce Willis and a me
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
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      fb100001052160664: .. Live Free or Die Hard is a amazing action movie .. It's really nice to see John Mclane (Bruce Willis) kick some ass again. Timothy Oly
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
  • Shoot 'Em Up

    Shoot 'Em Up (R, 2007)

    Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk
    Clive Owen stars in this gritty, over the top action thriller as Mr. Smith, a gun-toting badass with... read more a hair trigger and an unknown past. He's far from a doctor and farther from a parent, but when he unwittingly discovers an innocent woman delivering a baby right in the middle of a gunfight, Smith enters the fray to save her and though the woman expires, he is the one left in care of the orphaned child. He thinks that the killers were after the woman, but soon he realizes that they had a far more unlikely target: the baby. Smith's regular company is a seedy underworld full of unsavory characters, so he takes the child to the closest thing he knows to a mother: a sultry prostitute played by Monica Bellucci, who specializes in clientele with a mommy fetish. Teamed with his hot but unlikely partner, Smith unloads barrel after barrel to protect the mysterious baby from Mr. Hertz, a ruthless criminal mastermind played by Paul Giamatti. Smith plans to figure out why Hertz and his thugs are after the baby, but if he can't uncover the truth, he'll settle for leaving them all dead in the process. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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      fb1244345744: Great balance of action & comedy. Clive Owens' character is similar to his Sin City character, but Giamatti is great
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
    • rickmurta
      rickmurta: . I was so dumbfounded by the over the top action that I couldn't appreciate it until it had digested. I wish i could have seen the look on my
      Reviewed 56 days days ago
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      fb100000222539113: . Everything is straight up insane from the outrageous characters, over the top impossible action, and the fucked up story but it's what makes it so awesome. Clive Owen is all about being a p
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
  • Die Hard

    Die Hard (R, 1988)

    Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Reginald VelJohnson
    It's Christmas time in L.A., and there's an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Naka... read moretomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who plan to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. In truth, Gruber and his henchmen are only pretending to be politically motivated to throw the authorities off track; also in truth, Gruber has no intention of allowing anyone to get out of the building alive. Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) has come to L.A. to visit his estranged wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, McClane, who fears nothing (except heights), takes on the villains, armed with one handgun and plenty of chutzpah. Until Die Hard came along, Bruce Willis was merely that wisecracking guy on Moonlighting. After the film's profits started rolling in, Willis found himself one of the highest-paid and most sought-after leading men in Hollywood. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
    • chevypillow
      chevypillow: . A spectacle of action. It's an event. It is the perfect definition of action movies in general and what every vie
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
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      fb100000222539113: ... That's just the way he likes it."

      Die Hard was one of the best action movies in the 80's and stands also in all time. The influence this movie had on other action
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
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      fb1342588275: One of the best action movies of it's time. I even think this is even in the top 10 action movies ever. Just watch
      Reviewed 51 days days ago
  • Taken

    Taken (PG-13, 2009)

    Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser, Jon Gries
    An ex-soldier (Liam Neeson) traveling through Europe embarks on a frantic quest to rescue his daught... read moreer (Maggie Grace) after the young girl is abducted by slave traders in District B13 director Pierre Morel's contemporary thriller Taken. Robert Mark Kamen joins the screenwriting team, which also includes Morel and longtime collaborator Luc Besson, who also produces. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      markramsay16: Yes, this a bombastic and over-the-top action-packed B-movie. This is no bad thing, and as a B-movie, it's one of the best there is.

      Nees
      Reviewed 59 days days ago
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      fb661871636: There seems to be quite a few action films of late, which I always end up comparing with The Bourne Identity, and James Bond, and
      Reviewed 31 days days ago
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      fb100001805415806: Liam Neeson in one of his greatest action films! Intense action throughout with a great storyline with it as well.
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
  • Rambo (Rambo IV)

    Rambo (Rambo IV) (R, 2008)

    Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
    When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, vigilante V... read moreietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission. It's been 20 years since Rambo helped mujahedeen rebels fend off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, and these days the former soldier lives a simple life in northern Thailand. Meanwhile, the world's longest-running civil war rages into its 60th year on the nearby Thai-Burma border. One day, human rights missionaries Sarah Miller (Julie Benz) and Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze) show up asking Rambo to guide them up the Salween so they can get some much-needed food and medical supplies to the desperate Karen tribe. According to Sarah and Michael, the Burmese military has planted land mines all along the roads leading into the tribe's village, making it virtually impossible to reach the tribe via land. Two weeks after Rambo drops the group off in dangerous territory, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) arrives with a chilling message: the aid workers never returned from their mission into the jungle, and the embassies refuse to help Marsh and his fellow missionaries find their missing friends. Now, despite the fact that Rambo has long since sworn off all forms of violence, the knowledge that innocent missionaries are being used as pawns in a brutal war leaves him with no other choice than to venture behind enemy lines on his most dangerous mission to date. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb1378546342: ...lots of action...lots of blood!!!
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb1087124427: All the Rambo films have action, violence and are worth watching. This is a worthy successor to the original. First Blood rem
      Reviewed 41 days days ago
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      fb1526363679: Rambo is not some incredible film, but the series has always been about action and it keeps it up here. The plot is pretty pointless, but honestly I wasn't looking for som
      Reviewed 11 months days ago
  • The Bourne Ultimatum

    The Bourne Ultimatum (PG-13, 2007)

    Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine
    Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) races to solve the mystery of his past while being hunted by members of th... read moree very organization he was hired into as director Paul Greengrass brings author Robert Ludlum's popular character back to the big screen for his third feature outing. David Strathairn, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, and Paddy Considine co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb100002362637954: .
      Greengrass is a worthy action director and brings some solid action scenes. The car chase like first and second is just edg
      Reviewed 2 months days ago
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      fb16410621: . I loved all the suspense and action in the movie.
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
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      fb56400875: . I love action movies that are full of suspense.
      Reviewed 52 days days ago
  • Quantum of Solace

    Quantum of Solace (PG-13, 2008)

    Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini
    A devastating betrayal sends James Bond from Australia to Italy and South America on a mission of ve... read morengeance that pits the suave super-spy against a powerful businessman with diabolical intentions. Betrayed by Vesper, 007 (Daniel Craig) suppresses the urge to make his latest mission personal as he teams with M (Judi Dench) to interrogate Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). It soon becomes apparent that the organization behind the blackmailing of Vesper is more powerful than Bond and M had previously anticipated, and after discovering forensic evidence that links an MI6 traitor to a bank in Haiti, Bond immediately sets out to gather more intelligence. Once in Haiti, a case of mistaken identity leads Bond into the company of the ravishing Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a dangerous beauty with her own vendetta. It's Camille who leads Bond to a ruthless businessman named Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who is soon revealed to be the mastermind of a powerful but clandestine organization. Greene is conspiring to corner the market on one of the world's most precious natural resources, and in order to make that happen he has forged a deal with an exiled general named Medrano (Joaquin Cosio). By enlisting the aid of his many associates and using his vast resources to force contacts within the CIA and the British government into bending to his will, Greene plans to overthrow the current regime of a Latin American country and hand control over to General Medrano in exchange for a parcel of land that appears barren on the surface, but actually houses a natural resource that will make Greene the most powerful man on the planet. But Bond's mission to uncover the culprit who blackmailed Vesper and prevent Dominic Greene from exerting his will on the entire world won't be easy, because now everyone from the CIA to the terrorists and even M are out to get him. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb538571998: . the previous one. And there was a little bit of story, and lots of very yummy action sequences! You know what they say about lack of action, If you don't like it, wait 5 minutes.
      Reviewed 24 days days ago
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      fb529698889: . Good cars...Action shots were a bit tight in the frame...like to see the choreography of the action. Casino Royale was better effort.
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
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      fb829900129: . Although a good mix of action, emotion and some racy scenes would have been better....Guess Casino Royale got the mix right
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
  • Transformers

    Transformers (PG-13, 2007)

    Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor
    The interstellar battle between the Autobots and Decepticons rains destruction down on planet Earth ... read moreas director Michael Bay adapts Hasbro and Takara's popular Transformers franchise into a big-budget, live-action summer tentpole extravaganza in this ambitious sci-fi action feature starring Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Bernie Mac, John Turturro, Jon Voight, and, of course, Optimus Prime and Megatron. Long ago, on the planet of Cybertron, a massive, powerful alien race divided into two factions, the noble Autobots, and the devious Decepticons. They fought for the sole access to a talisman known as the Allspark, a cube with the capacity to grant infinite power, and eventually the Autobots smuggled it off the planet's surface, hiding it in an unknown location on Earth. Now, hundreds of years later, the Deceptacons have come looking for it, and if the Autobots don't find it first, the Earth will be enslaved or destroyed by the evil aliens' use of its massive power. The Autobots don't know where the cube was hidden, but the information may be stored in the most unlikely of sources, as a gangly young Earthling named Sam Witwicky (LaBeouf) who's just picked up his first car, has a strange connection to the Allspark's history, making him the unlikely ally of these enormous creatures, as they fight for humankind's survival and the chance to return home. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb100000222539113: h Sergeant Epps: Bring the rain!

      Great adaption from the tv show with unbelievable special effects/action sequences you'll ever see in a movie. But there's more to it than that with a good story to k
      Reviewed 29 days days ago
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      fb701335836: Top fun film, light in plot high in action. Perfect for turning your brain off & just sitting back & watching.
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb201402362: . The movie overall was action packed, funny, and just down right fun to watch.
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
  • Terminator Salvation

    Terminator Salvation (PG-13, 2009)

    Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard
    The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Ba... read morele) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be mankind's last true hope in the war against the machines. Opening in the year 2018, Terminator Salvation finds John Connor's certainty about the future shaken by the sudden appearance of a mysterious stranger named Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), whose last memory is of sitting on death row and awaiting execution. Unable to determine whether Marcus was sent from the future or rescued from the past, Connor begins to wonder whether there is still any hope left for the human race as the robots grow more powerful and aggressive than ever before. It appears that Skynet is preparing a devastating final attack designed to eliminate the human resistance once and for all, leaving Connor and Marcus with no choice but to strike back at the cybernetic heart of Skynet's operations. Once there, the two battle-scarred soldiers discover a devastating secret regarding the potential annihilation of all humankind. Anton Yelchin fills Michael Biehn's shoes as a young Kyle Reese in the first installment of a planned Terminator trilogy from director McG (Charlie's Angels). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
    • hakkanarejo
      hakkanarejo: Christian Bale plays John Connor - prophetic leader of the human Resistance - who gets his own action sequence in the beginning before quickly being regulated to a minor player for most of the fi
      Reviewed 43 days days ago
    • RobertHaris
      RobertHaris: . But a few things that this movie had going for it were the action scenes and Christian Bale as John Connor. He was much better than the John Connor in Terminat
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb572848485: . In fact it's quite flawed with cliche's but the nostalgia factor and ridiculous action scenes make up for the average dialogue. MCG and company know how to shoot and light a s
      Reviewed 45 days days ago

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