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1 day ago · Fresh and Certified Fresh 2021 action movies ranked by Tomatometer, including Black Widow, Nobody, Gunpowder Milkshake and more!
- 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.
- 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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Jan 4, 2022 · Looking at the best-reviewed action movies of the year on Rotten Tomatoes, it is clear the action genre has a lot to offer. From big superhero blockbusters to smaller gritty thrillers to movies that combine humor with adventure, these top-rated action movies from 2021 really stand out.
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- Baby Assassins (Japan) This will be a cheat to some, but Baby Assassins hasn’t actually been released in the US yet.
- Kate. Netflix Originals aren’t exactly a reliable source of quality — they’ve delivered some real winners but the sheer quantity of releases also means lots of immediately forgettable fare — but when it comes to action movies, this year’s list features an impressive four entries from the streaming giant.
- One Shot (UK) It wouldn’t be a “best action movie of the year” list without a Scott Adkins joint, and this year’s contender is something a little bit different from the British brawler.
- Paper Tigers. Martial arts movies about students seeking vengeance for the murder of their sifu are a common sight in action cinema, but Paper Tigers does something a little bit different with the concept.
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 .
Dec 2, 2021 · From superhero movies to spy sagas to epic franchises like The Fast and the Furious, action movies are a Hollywood staple, especially during the spring and summer (a.k.a. blockbuster season).
