Time Out's The 101 Best Action Movies Ever Made
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"They get a bad rap from snobs, but don’t mess with action movies—they’re pumped up, loaded with ammo and in your face like Arnold Schwarzenegger on a bad day. Truth be told, no one can live solely on Woody Allen movies or animation alone. We need explosions periodically. Big ones. Preferably accompanied by catchphrases and squealing electric guitars. With crucial contributions from Hong Kong and France, the genre has a global richness that sneaks up on you like a swarthy henchman with a knife clenched between his teeth. And when we arrived at action’s ’80s movies heyday, when Hollywood stars ruled the roost, our research was euphoric. We’ve polled over 50 experts in the field, from essential directors like Die Hard’s John McTiernan to the actual folks in the line of fire, such as Machete himself, Danny Trejo. Critics and experts have weighed in, too."
The list has 102 titles because Kill Bill was counted as one entry.
List was last updated August 14 2020
Modnote about list order: When Timeout changed the web formatting of the list from its previous pagination the ordering of each group of 10 got reversed. The list here is in it's original correct ordering.
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Die Hard
1988, in 20 top lists Check -
2 +7
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check -
3 +5
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
4 +3
Lat sau san taam
1992 — a.k.a. Hard Boiled, in 12 top lists Check -
5 +1
Mad Max 2
1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check -
6 -1
Enter the Dragon
1973, in 14 top lists Check -
7 -3
Ging chaat goo si
1985 — a.k.a. Police Story, in 10 top lists Check -
8 -5
The Wild Bunch
1969, in 25 top lists Check -
9 -7
Shichinin no samurai
1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check -
10 -9
Aliens
1986, in 24 top lists Check -
11 +10
The Matrix
1999, in 30 top lists Check -
12 +8
RoboCop
1987, in 15 top lists Check -
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First Blood
1982, in 5 top lists Check -
14 +4
Wong Fei Hung II: Nam yee tung chi keung
1992 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in China II, in 4 top lists Check -
15 +2
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007, in 9 top lists Check -
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Predator
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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Ong-bak
2003 — a.k.a. Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, in 2 top lists Check -
18 -4
The Terminator
1984, in 24 top lists Check -
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Face/Off
1997, in 7 top lists Check -
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003, in 18 top lists Check -
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004, in 9 top lists Check -
22 +9
The General
1926, in 33 top lists Check -
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Serbuan maut
2011 — a.k.a. The Raid: Redemption, in 2 top lists Check -
24 +5
Bullitt
1968, in 11 top lists Check -
25 +3
Dip huet seung hung
1989 — a.k.a. The Killer, in 16 top lists Check -
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Lethal Weapon
1987, in 5 top lists Check -
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'A' gai wak
1983 — a.k.a. Project A, in 4 top lists Check -
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Jui kuen II
1994 — a.k.a. Drunken Master II, in 4 top lists Check -
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Heat
1995, in 23 top lists Check -
30 -7
Shao Lin san shi liu fang
1978 — a.k.a. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, in 8 top lists Check -
31 -9
C'era una volta il West
1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 29 top lists Check -
32 +9
Point Break
1991, in 9 top lists Check -
33 +7
Ying hung boon sik
1986 — a.k.a. A Better Tomorrow, in 10 top lists Check -
34 +5
Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985, in 4 top lists Check -
35 +3
Oldeuboi
2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check -
36 +1
Fei lung mang jeung
1988 — a.k.a. Dragons Forever, in 3 top lists Check -
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Wo hu cang long
2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check -
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Commando
1985, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938, in 18 top lists Check -
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Mad Max: Fury Road
2015, in 23 top lists Check -
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The French Connection
1971, in 24 top lists Check -
42 +9
The Bourne Identity
2002, in 5 top lists Check -
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Léon
1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check -
44 +5
Dao
1995 — a.k.a. The Blade, in 3 top lists Check -
45 +3
True Lies
1994, in 5 top lists Check -
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Ben-Hur
1959, in 22 top lists Check -
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Saat po long
2005 — a.k.a. Kill Zone, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Professionals
1966, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ip Man
2008, in 4 top lists Check -
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018, in 5 top lists
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