Top 20+ Action Movies of All Time: Rotten Tomatoes' Best Rated
Are you a fan of action movies? Look no further. We've compiled a list of the top action films, according to Rotten Tomatoes, spanning from classic films to the latest blockbusters. Get ready for non-stop thrills and heart-pumping adventure. This list is sure to elevate your movie-watching experience.
22. Baby Driver (2017)
Summary: Baby is a very experienced driver despite his young age. A man nicknamed Baby because of his youthful appearance provides driving services for bank robbers. After a bank robbery, a man who drives a getaway car one day crosses paths with a criminal leader and is forced to work for him. However, this business he enters is a robbery doomed to fail. When things go wrong, he has to run away from different different people who come after him.
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James
Director: Edgar Wright
21. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Summary: Sing is a poor teenager with a punk temperament, who has always been oppressed throughout his life. He believes that by joining the axe gang, he will change everything. in the early 1940s, the Axe gang took over the whole place and there is only one neighborhood left, but this neighborhood is the beginning of the end for the Axe gang.
Cast: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Dong Zhi Hua
Director: Stephen Chow
20. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Summary: Captain America: Battle of the Heroes; brings superheroes face to face on the most important issue of the story universe. When the incident involving the Avengers ends badly, the political forces begin to put pressure on the establishment of a system in which the Avengers are followed and guided by an authority.
Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
19. Predator (1987)
Summary: Dutch and his commandos are tasked by the CIA to find and retrieve an airman held captive in a South American jungle. The mission is successful, but on the way back they fall victim to a strange hunting party. An alien and invincible being hunts intelligent life forms on different worlds in its own rituals. This time the victim will be Dutch and his fellow commandos.
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo
Director: John McTiernan
18. Taken (2008)
Summary: Bryan, now a retired CIA agent, is troubled by reintroducing his old talents. Because, the kidnapping of his daughter, whom he could not meet, What could be worse than a father listening without doing anything on his cell phone connection? Bryan will take action to reverse this nightmare situation. However, he has a very short time to save his daughter from this gang dealing with white women's trafficking. However, there is one more important problem. The fact that Bryan himself is in Los Angeles and his kidnapped daughter is in Paris makes matters worse.
Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Director: Pierre Morel
17. Hero (2002)
Summary: Before the reign of the first emperor in ancient China, dissident factions within the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. The situation is quite risky. There are three big enemies in the middle. Power and money are promised to those who remove them. A nameless, unknown of any strength or notoriety, defeats Qin's three main enemies, Broken Sword, Flying Snow, and Sky. Thereupon, he was summoned to the palace and asked to tell Qin the story of this surprise victory in all its details. It is indeed an extraordinary victory.
Cast: Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Director: Yimou Zhang
16. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Summary: In the near future, the alien alliance called Mimics, which has taken over the world, destroys many large cities and leaves millions of people on the brink of death. No army in the world they cannot reach their speed, the power of their weapons, and most importantly, their power to give and execute orders via telepathy. Now all armies in the world must join forces against this alien horde, and they have no second chance apart from this alliance. Officer Bill Cage is an inexperienced soldier who has never participated in any of these wars before, and his new assignment means a kind of suicide for him. It is expected; Cage is killed within minutes. But this is not an end, but a new beginning. Cage wakes up on an unusually hellish day, finding himself in a loop that's hard to break. According to this, he has to die and then resurrect and repeat the same war once again. Stronger, smarter and Mimics' every comeback Although he can cope with the difficulties more easily, the job given to him is the most challenging task in the world.
Cast: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton
Director: Doug Liman
15. Iron Man (2008)
Summary: Tony Stark is both an engineering genius and a complete playboy. He produces state-of-the-art missiles and weapons in his own country. While promoting a new missile in Afghanistan, he is captured and injured. The kidnappers want him to make a missile for them. Tony, on the other hand, makes an armored suit instead. His goal in doing this is to plan a different method of salvation using his intelligence. Tony's life, where devotes his free time to his women, has now taken on a completely different shape. How he will deal with it is the main issue.
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: Jon Favreau
14. The Bourne Identity (2002)
Summary: A man trying to survive alone in the middle of the sea is rescued by a fishing boat. As the man slowly starts to come to himself, it is understood that he does not remember anything about his past. Now he will start doing research about himself to understand who he is. As he learns new information about himself, his very special abilities that no one else has will begin to emerge. In pursuit of the man without a past, there are notorious criminals who want to end his life.
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper
Director: Doug Liman
13. Casino Royale (2006)
Summary: Le Chiffre is the man who finances the world's terrorists. He attends a poker game in Montenegro. He has to earn his money back in order to be safe in terrorist market. MI6 boss M sends Bond into the game with Vesper Lynd to prevent Le Chiffre from winning the game. Bond takes part in the most dangerous poker game of his career, enlisting the support of Felix Leiter and having Vesper stand by him as his wife. But if Bond is defeated against Le Chiffre, it is unclear whether they will be able to survive.
Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen
Director: Martin Campbell
12. Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
Summary: The production, which is a cinematic adaptation of The Avengers, one of Marvel's most beloved series, the first of which was published in 1963 and has become the shrine of comic book fans since then, also shares a legendary cast of leading roles.
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo
Director: Joss Whedon
11. Elite Squad 2 (2010)
Summary: Latin America is undoubtedly one of the region’s most sought after by the papal institution during its frequent visits outside the Vatican. Here comes the glorious visit of Pope Jean Paul II, the spiritual leader of the Catholics, to Rio de Janeiro in 1997. Before the religious leader Pope's visit to the city, lively days are experienced in the suburbs of the city. Captain Nascimento, the leader of the Special Police Operations Team, is tasked with taking down drug dealers in dangerous, high-crime slum areas close to areas the Pope is likely to visit. Of course, there is also another very human situation. Nascimento is now determined to leave the organization. Because the birth of her child is near, and she wants to stay out of trouble. Deciding to leave the Special Police Operations Team, Nascimento must find a replacement. On the other hand, two friends named Matias and Neto, who graduated from police school, are disturbed by the corruption in their environment. In time, the path of these two will cross with Nascimento. Special team members face the brutal face of the war on the streets.
Cast: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Pedro Van-Held
Director: Jose Padilha
10. Die Hard (1988)
Summary: Die Hard was one of the best action movies of the 80s. It is also important in terms of influencing many of the actions that will be filmed after him and bringing Bruce Willis to his current position. It must have been the equivalent of the box office monster phrase with the 140 million dollars it grossed worldwide 20 years ago.
Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov
Director: John McTiernan
9. Heat (1995)
Summary: In the Big Showdown, Neil McCauley is a professional thief who has successfully managed to get away with all kinds of crimes he has been involved in, both with his instincts and his superior intelligence, without leaving any conclusive evidence behind. With a gang of thieves who are at least as competent as he is, they try to do difficult things and achieve success with minimal damage. As in every notorious criminal case, there is an ambitious and obsessive detective after the thief in question. Detective Hana is determined to solve the case, even though she has not been able to cope with the intelligence of this master thief so far.
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Director: Michael Mann
8. Braveheart (1995)
Summary: In Braveheart, William Wallace returns to his hometown Scotland after great suffering. His main goal is to live a quiet life by farming. When he meets his childhood sweetheart, he does not realize that this will push him into a bottomless abyss. One day, British soldiers try to rape Murron, William's childhood sweetheart. William saves her, but this will lead to the death of Murron and the change of an era. Mel Gibson's film, in which he both played and directed the famous Scottish folk hero William Wallace, had become a phenomenon in a short time.
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Catherine McCormack
Director: Mel Gibson
7. Aliens (1986)
Summary: Creature 2 tells the story of 57 years after the first Alien movie. The film begins with the awakening of Ellen Ripley, the only survivor of Nostromo, after many years. Ripley soon tells that strange things are happening on the planet where they came across the creature eggs, this deserted place has now become a settlement and the creatures have established a colony, but the company officials do not believe this warning of disaster. When the connection between them and the colonists is suddenly severed, Ripley Decamps back to the planet to assemble a team of his own and handle this job alone.
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen
Director: James Cameron
6. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Summary: Doctor Strange, Gamora, Drax, Mantis, young Spider-Man, Black Panther, Bucky Barnes, Groot, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Star Lord, Maria Hill, many heroes like The Wasp and Nick Fury have been destroyed by Thanos' seizure of the Infinity Gauntlet and balancing himself, and the world is hopeless. While Black Widow, Captain America, Thor and Hulk are mourning themselves, Iron and Nebula are drifting in outer space in a spaceship they cannot control. Things aren't looking so well for the superhero team. But Ant-Man, who finds a way out of the Quantum Realm and goes to the remaining members of the Avengers team, will be a new ray of hope. Territories they didn't know existed before, learning about the existence of heroes and universes, the team will embark on the greatest struggle of their lives to change this distorted balance established by Thanos and to bring back what was taken from them. The time has come for our heroes, all of whom have lost what they care about personally.
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo
Director: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
5. Gladiator (2000)
Summary: In Gladiator, Maximus, a general in Rome under the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, is gradually rising up the hierarchical steps of the empire. The fact that his father holds this stranger named Maximus on his hands instead of favoring him also bothers Commodus, the real heir to the throne. Commodus does not wait long to issue his order for the murder of Maximus and his family. Maximus, who barely survived death, is now sent to the arena to be trained as a gladiator. Maximus has only one desire in mind, to kill Commodus and avenge his family as soon as possible.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Director: Ridley Scott
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Summary: Terminator 2: Armageddon is set in the year 2009. Synet robots, who failed in their mission to kill Sarah Connor, produce a new robot named T-1000. This new “Terminator” is programmed to return to the past and kill Sarah's son John Connar, who will become the future leader of the human resistance. But another robot, the T-800, has been programmed to protect John and sent to the past. There is only one question that determines the fate of mankind: which of the two robots will find John first?
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Director: James Cameron
3. The Matrix (1999)
Summary: There is a reality that is experienced, and a reality that is beyond what is experienced. One is a dream, the other is the Matrix. Neo believes that Morpheus, an extremely dangerous man, knows the truth. One night, Neo meets the beautiful stranger Trinity, who can take him to another world. In the world that this girl will take, Neo will find Morpheus and learn something about the Matrix. Neo knows that things he doesn't fully grasp are controlling his life. What is this Matrix?
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
2. Inception (2010)
Summary: Leonardo DiCaprio appears in this production with 'Dom Cobb', a very talented thief. His specialty is to pull out valuable secrets from the depths of the subconscious and steal them at the moment of dreaming, when the mind is at its darkest and most vulnerable.
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page
Director: Christopher Nolan
1. The Dark Knight (2008)
Summary: The Dark Knight is about the story of Batman, who takes on the task of rescuing the Streets of Gotham, which has turned to chaos with the appearance of the Joker, who poses a great threat to the public. A place that is cleared of those who commit crimes may come under threat again after a while, and that's when the struggle of those who will roll up their sleeves again will come to life more sharply. Although Batman, Lieutenant Gordon and Prosecutor Harvey Dent got together and pulled this off on the Streets of Gotham, the Joker, who suddenly appeared, messes things badly. It will not be easy to cope with his mind. Gotham is on the verge of the old chaotic days. While Batman is dressing to be a savior again, he also begins to question the meaning of his own existence. He will really want to understand whether he is actually reducing or increasing the number of criminals.
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
Director: Christopher Nolan
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