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- Free Guy
- CopShop
- Nobody
- No Time to Die
- Raging Fire
- The Suicide Squad
- Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Riders of Justice
- The Paper Tigers
Video games often surpass movies in the terms of the kind of wild action they can feature. However, Free Guyembraces the endless possibilities of video game worlds with its story taking place inside one. Ryan Reynolds plays a mundane everyman who realizes he is a character in a game. The movie has plenty of fun video game references to please fans ...
There have been many great action movies that take place largely in a single location and Copshopis a worthy entry into that subgenre. Frank Grillo plays a con artist who attempts to hide from a relentless assassin by getting locked up in a police station. But when the assassin is locked up as well, a tense and deadly situation unfolds. RELATED: 10...
As enjoyable as it is the see typical action heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone do their thing, it is always fun to see an unexpected actor step into the genre. Such is the case with Bob Odenkirk in Nobodyas he plays a mild-mannered family man with a deadly past. Critics acknowledged that the movie sticks to the genre expectat...
Daniel Craig gets the rare opportunity to bring closure in his final outing as James Bond. The latest adventure picks up with 007 living a quiet life away from the spy world only to be dragged back in by a new threat and some dark secrets being revealed. No Time to Dieis not the most daring Bond movie in the eyes of most critics, however, as a fina...
Donnie Yen is one of the best action stars working in the genre today so it is always exciting to see what new adventure he is involved in. Raging Firehas Yen playing a decorated police officer who is faced with his most challenging case when he goes up against a skilled gang of criminals led by his former protégé. Critics pointed out that Raging F...
After the disappointing first attempt to bring Task Force X to the big screen, James Gunn's The Suicide Squad embraces the violence and weirdness of the source material for this new take. It once again finds a group of oddball villains sent on a deadly mission where they must learn to work as a team. It was Gunn's wild and distinct style that turne...
While beloved Marvel characters like Spider-Man and Black Widow got solo movies in 2021, it was a new MCU hero who surprised many with his debut. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringsstars Simu Liu as the titular hero who is forced to confront his past when his villainous father re-enters his life. From the exciting martial arts action sequence...
Yet another MCU adventure ended up pleasing critics with Tom Holland's third solo movie as Spider-Man. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker seeks out Doctor Strange's help only for it to result in some dangerous unwelcome guests coming from the multiverse. RELATED: 10 Spin-Offs That Could Follow Spider-Man: No Way Home With plenty of crowd-plea...
Like Raging Fire, Riders of Justiceis another international action story that stood out to critics in 2021. Mads Mikkelsen stars in the Danish action-comedy as a former soldier who goes on a dangerous mission after suspecting his wife's death was not an accident. Mikkelsen continues to impress critics with his versatility as his performance was hig...
Another action-comedy that fans might have missed but that impressed most critics is The Paper Tigers. The movie follows three former martial arts prodigies who now live mundane middle-aged lives. But when their former teacher is murdered, they must attempt to revisit their old skills and balance their regular lives as they embark on a revenge miss...
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- 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.
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- The Paper Tigers. 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.
- Prisoners of the Ghostland. If Prisoners of the Ghostland isn't everything great about Nicolas Cage going into overdrive distilled into one movie, nothing is.
- No Time To Die. 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.
- Kate. 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.
- Raging Fire. When it comes to the best action film of 2021, it's not really a contest. There's more glorious action in the first 20 minutes of "Raging Fire" than in entire movies on this list.
- Wrath of Man. The experience of watching "Wrath of Man" is to wait for it to become a typical Guy Ritchie movie. It never does. Yes, some of the British director's hallmarks are there — sophomoric banter, audacious music cues — but they're downplayed and mostly absent.
- Nobody. There are multiple American dreams. One of them is suburbia. For many, the promise of a white picket fence and financial security is Elysium on Earth.
- Riders of Justice. I imagine this list already has some readers wondering what my definition of an action movie actually is, and "Riders of Justice" will only confuse the issue.
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 .
Jan 5, 2022 · The best action movies of 2021 feature everything you could possibly want, from monster battles and crazy car chases to female assassins and video game mayhem.
