Time Out's The 101 Best Action Movies Ever Made

Everyone loves a good action movie, even if some won?t admit it. Film school snobs may pretend to turn up their noses, but no matter how cultured you?d like to think you are, there?s a part of your lizard brain that loves explosions and shootouts and badass one-liners ? and it needs to be satisfied. But action flicks needn?t be dumb, loud or graphic to succeed. Some find beauty in orchestrated violence. Others might crane-kick you right in the heart. Some even have ? gasp! ? character development. And so, to help put together this definitive list of the greatest action movies ever made, we reached out to some of the people who understand the action genre better than anyone, from Die Hard director John McTiernan to Machete himself, Danny Trejo. Pull the pin, light the fuse and batten down the hatches ? these are the most pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thrill rides ever put to film. Written by Eddy Frankel, Eddy Frankel, Yu An Su, Joshua Rothkopf, Trevor Johnston, Ashley Clark, Grady Hendrix, Tom Huddleston, Keith Uhlich, Dave Calhoun, Phil de Semlyen, Dave Calhoun and Matthew Singer The list has 102 titles because Kill Bill was counted as one entry. Last Updated: Friday 13 September 2024 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, so we kept the list in it's original correct ordering. However, since then, subsequent updates have used the new order consistently, so we've followed suit in order to match the source.

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