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3 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.
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- Army of the Dead. Thousands of zombies have been contained in Las Vegas, and they sit atop millions of dollars that no one is brave enough to recover. That is until a group of mercenaries are recruited to break into a casino vault right in the middle of the mayhem.
- Black Widow. The long-overdue solo film for Natasha Romanoff is worth the wait. Taking place between the events of "Captain America: Civil War" and "Avengers: Infinity War," we see Natasha reconcile her past with the help of her adoptive family.
- Boss Level. It's "Groundhog Day" meets "Edge of Tomorrow," only without Bill Murray or invading aliens. "Boss Level" follows a former special forces agent who relives the same day over and over again as he tries to uncover who's behind his murder — and each day, he gets killed again and again and again.
- Dune. "Dune" isn't just one of the best action movies of 2021 — it's one of the most impressive cinematic adventures of the year. Denis Villeneuve's long-awaited adaption of Frank Herbert's novel was everything fans hoped it would be: mesmerizing, stunning, and action-packed.
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- No Time to Die
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- 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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- Free Guy (80%) Video games often surpass movies in the terms of the kind of wild action they can feature. However, Free Guy embraces the endless possibilities of video game worlds with its story taking place inside one.
- Copshop (82%) There have been many great action movies that take place largely in a single location and Copshop is 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.
- Nobody (84%) 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.
- No Time To Die (84%) 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.
Dec 2, 2021 · Release date: April 23, 2021 (in theaters and on HBO Max) Starring: Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada. Why ...
Dec 25, 2021 · 8. Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of the best movies of 2021 overall. If there’s a reason it’s not higher on this list, it’s simply that the movie’s action isn’t ...
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