Taste of Cinema: The 20 Best Action Movies Of The 21st Century
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The 21st century has been kind to the action genre: big-spectacle, high-budget films have become hot commodities once more after limping through the 1990s hobbled by waning interest in big muscles, big guns, and big explosions. Instead, bigger was not only better but necessary to draw back increasingly shrinking audience engagement in action films. The results have moved the needle significantly as a result, where nearly every year in the 21st century has produced incredible action films – maybe even the best ever.
Not an automatic draw as they once were, action films got a lot smarter as a result: complex protagonists, plots, and scenarios began to populate the genre, with filmmakers realizing a cool kill and lots of explosions won’t draw the audience into action movies like they used to. As a result, the quality of plot and characterizations got a lot better in the new century, with unexpected juxtapositions producing action films that were actual good films in their own right. With that, let’s take a look at the 20 best action movies of the 21st century so far.
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Serbuan maut
2011 — a.k.a. The Raid: Redemption, in 2 top lists Check -
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Equilibrium
2002, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Bourne Ultimatum
2007, in 9 top lists Check -
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Atomic Blonde
2017, in 0 top lists Check -
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Haywire
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ip Man
2008, in 4 top lists Check -
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Extraction
2020, in 0 top lists -
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Dredd
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
9 new
Shoot 'Em Up
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
10 new
Kung fu
2004 — a.k.a. Kung Fu Hustle, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Equalizer
2014, in 1 top list Check -
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003, in 18 top lists Check -
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Mad Max: Fury Road
2015, in 23 top lists Check -
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Nobody
2021, in 2 top lists -
15 new
The Protégé
2021 — a.k.a. The Protege, in 0 top lists -
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018, in 5 top lists -
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019, in 2 top lists -
18 new
Hanna
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
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Oldeuboi
2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check -
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Casino Royale
2006, in 7 top lists Check
Last updated on Apr 25, 2023; source