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Jul 7, 2021 · Gerard Butler (“Greenland”), Jaimie Alexander (“Thor: The Dark World”), Russell Hornsby (“Creed II”) and Ethan Embry (“First Man”) have wrapped principal photography on director ...
- Manori Ravindran
Last Seen Alive. Last Seen Alive is a 2022 American action thriller film [3] directed by Brian Goodman and written by Marc Frydman. It stars Gerard Butler, who also produced the film, Jaimie Alexander and Russell Hornsby. Formerly known as Chase, the film follows a man who takes the law into his own hands in the search for his missing wife.
2 days ago · Along with horror films like A Quiet Place Part II, action movies have been instrumental in demonstrating signs of vital life at the 2021 box office. Nobody made an unlikely commercial action hero out of Bob Odenkirk as theaters were re-opening, and afterwards, massive blockbusters like F9 , Black Widow , and Godzilla vs. Kong drew huge crowds that approached pre-pandemic levels.
- Raging Fire. The world lost one of the great action filmmakers in 2020 when Benny Chan unexpectedly died of cancer. We have his great work in Hong Kong action cinema left to remember him by, and this year, we got one final entry: a collaboration between him and the great Donnie Yen in Raging Fire.
- No Time To Die. Daniel Craig’s final adventure as James Bond was a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. Whether involved in a gun battle or a car chase, No Time To Die brought some of the best action in the history of the James Bond franchise.
- Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings. 2021 was a massive return for the Marvel Cinematic Universe with four new entries on the big screen alone. They covered a wide variety of genres and styles, but without question, the best action movie of them all was Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
- The Suicide Squad. James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad opens with an absolutely massive action sequence that ends with a big pile of dead bodies, and from there, things get really crazy.
- The Paper Tigers
- Prisoners of The Ghostland
- No Time to Die
- Kate
- Nobody
- Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings
- Army of The Dead
- Raging Fire
- One Shot
- Sanak
Bao Tran's crowdfunded indie kung-fu comedy The Paper Tigers captured the hearts of millions in 2021, and deservedly so. Alain Uy, Ron Yuan, and Mykel Shannon Jenkins play Danny, Hing, and Jim, a trio of former kung fu students now largely distant from their martial arts days. The Three Tigers, as they are known, find themselves forced to unite and...
If Prisoners of the Ghostland isn't everything great about Nicolas Cage going into overdrive distilled into one movie, nothing is. Cage plays the film's protagonist, known simply as "Hero," who is tasked with retrieving Bernice (Sofia Boutella), one of the "granddaughters" of Samurai Town's ruler Governor (Bill Moseley). To ensure his compliance, C...
Daniel Craig's James Bond swan song finally arrived in October 2021, and despite numerous delays, No Time To Die was well worth the wait. Craig's Bond is now happily living in Italy with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), until the sinister terrorist Safin (Rami Malek) forces him out of retirement. With his fellow MI6 agent Nomi (Lashana Lynch) now the...
The assassin action movie train keeps on trucking, and Netflix's Kate brought plenty of firepower and fisticuffs to the game. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays retirement-bound assassin Kate, who develops a crisis of conscience after having to kill a yakuza boss in the presence of his child. She soon finds herself protecting the child of her target, An...
Like its unassuming anti-hero, Nobody strolled into theaters packing one of the biggest punches of the year. Bob Odenkirk plays Hutch Mansell, a seemingly average family man who hides a dark past and has to unleash his skills as an assassin when his old enemies catch up to him. Odenkirk trained for two years ahead of Nobody, and is arguably the bre...
2021 had an abundance of superhero movies, though for the purposes of this list, comic book movies and action films run on two parallel but distinct tracks. Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings had one foot in both camps, and is hands down one of the best martial arts flicks of the year. Simu Liu portrays Shang-Chi, a former assassin for the Ten...
Zack Snyder went two for two in 2021. Following the release of the long-awaited Zack Snyder’s Justice League, he followed up with the gloriously fun and exhilarating action-horror-heist combo Army of the Dead on Netflix. With Las Vegas sealed off from the world after a zombie outbreak, a team of mercenaries led by Dave Bautista’s Scott Ward is task...
Acclaimed Hong Kong action filmmaker Benny Chan tragically passed away in August of 2020, and the posthumous release of his final movie Raging Fireshows how much he was still one of the best in the business. Donnie Yen plays Hong Kong cop Cheung Sung-bong, whose testimony in a police brutality case resulted in several of his friends on the force go...
In a time when one-shot action scenes have begun graduating to one-shot action movies, who better than Scott Adkins to anchor one of the most viscerally amazing ones yet in James Nunn's One Shot? Adkins portrays Jake Harris, a U.S. Navy SEAL tasked with transporting British national and suspected terrorist Amin Mansur (Waleed Elgadi) from a CIA pri...
Here's a secret many in the Western world aren't fully aware of: Bollywood makes some of the best action movies in the world, and one need look no further than the "Die Hard in a hospital" that is Sanak for proof. Vidyut Jammwal plays MMA trainer Vivann, arriving at a Mumbai hospital to pick up his wife Anshika (Rukmini Maitra) just as a terrorist ...
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Dec 9, 2021 · So, grab some popcorn and strap in, because here, without adieu, are the 20 best action films of 2021, ranked. 20. Sentinelle. Some great action films are bangers from front to back, while others ...
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Action came back in a big way in 2021 after delayed films like “ F9 ” and “ No Time to Die ” were released in theaters, and the MCU dropped four movies in the second half of the year. These are the best action movies of 2021, according to the assigned critics of RogerEbert.com. The biggest action movies of the year weren’t always the ...
