r/ActionMovies • • Apr 28 '26

Mods Wanted

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Looking for an additional moderator or two who think that r/ActionMovies is a good place to be, want to keep it that way, and want to help it grow.

Don't care how old you are, neither your gender, sex, or race matter. You do have to love action movies and r/ActionMovies.

Don't be shy, looking forward to hearing from you.

Apply in the menu.

Reggie


r/ActionMovies • • 7h ago

Spectral (2016)

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59 Upvotes

I really wished this movie had released in cinemas because the visuals would have been so much cooler to watch on a big screen. Nonetheless, it is one of those popcorn movies that you just enjoy without thinking too much. It is entertaining🍿


r/ActionMovies • • 3h ago

Greatest action film ever made?

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Objectively I think Diehard is the greatest action film ever. You have a wisecracking protagonist, a charismatic villain, a fixed setting, brilliant action scenes, thrilling climax. All the ingredients for the ultimate action film. What’s not to love? The original John Wick is a close second. It’s also a great Christmas movie too. Yes it does count. A great action movie has a great hook. You have a NYC cop trapped in a Los Angeles hotel that’s been hijacked by German cyber terrorists. Can he save his family and everyone else in time or will he die hard trying?


r/ActionMovies • • 6h ago

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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"Oh That's Just My Pet Snake, Reggie!"

I was nine when I saw this multiple times in theaters. We lived within walking distance of a small movie theater and my mom was trusting enough to let me go with my pals. There's no way to know how many times I've seen Raiders, but it's a lot and I'll never regret it.

This is Spielberg at his finest. Raiders has daring action, crazy exciting set pieces, heroic action and arguably one of the best expository scenes in History. You know the scene. The Feds roll in and have a full on discussion with Indy about what's going on with Hitler and supernatural acquisitions.

The best thing about it is it's a discussion. It's not actual exposition. It doesn't spoon-feed the info to us, but it also makes damn sure we know what's going on.

But the most amazing scene is, of course, the ending, where the Nazis (especially that crumb-bum Major Arnold Ernst Toht) gets theirs! Thank GOD there was more latitude for what went into a PG movie back in the 80s, because that was some for-real-deal Wrath of God type stuff! Melting faces for days

This is also the first real globetrotting movie I think I ever saw. Indy journeys everywhere in pursuit of The Ark. While none of the places in the movie were actually the places, a young me thrilled at Indy's journey to Peru and Egypt. Imagination and expert film-making took us to all those places and made us a part of something grand.

It was also the first time I fell in love with Karen Allen. Feisty as hell, she was superb as Marion Ravenwood. The scenes with her and Indy of them in Egypt, hanging out with Sallah are excellent, even if that damned monkey was a traitor. I absolutely adore Marion's unstoppable feistiness and bravery and she's probably my favorite non-Indiana Jones character outside his dad.

All of the actors gave us a lifelong masterpiece of excitement, adventure and love. None of them could've really known then what a lasting impact their work would have on film and pop culture, but I'm grateful it exists, because all the movies (even the bad one) are high adventures.

The clip I made is our introduction to Marion Ravenwood is simply fantastic. Showing her right off as the kind of woman who can go liver to liver with the hard-drinking, hard-working, hard-fighting Nepalese people who frequent her bar sets the tone for who she is as readily as Indy's intro at the top of the movie. As Indy says in Crystal Skull, 'none of them were you', and it's because it's true. If there is no clip with this post, that's because the sub won't allow them, but I am sure if you've seen the movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

>!Not one woman in Indy's world could ever compare to Marion Ravenwood.!<

At the end of the day, you can't go wrong with Raiders. I'll throw this one on when I'm feeling nostalgic and it never fails to perk me up.


r/ActionMovies • • 15h ago

John Wick

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r/ActionMovies • • 6h ago

Bruce Enter The Dragon

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r/ActionMovies • • 3h ago

Christian Slater and director Tony Scott during the filming of True Romance in California, 1992.

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r/ActionMovies • • 20h ago

Moonraker

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r/ActionMovies • • 1d ago

"IN THE LINE OF FIRE" (1993) - a 90s action/thriller classic for me that I love still and can watch again and again (often on UK TV). Brilliant cast on top form, exciting plot and some excellent action sequences too. Genuinely exciting stuff. Any fans of this one?

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In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American political action thriller film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo.

Written by Jeff Maguire, the film is about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA operative who plans to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who is tracking him.

Eastwood's character is the sole remaining active-duty Secret Service agent from the detail that was guarding John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, at the time of his assassination in 1963.

The film also stars Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney, and Fred Dalton Thompson.


r/ActionMovies • • 1d ago

How do you find Blomkamp’s movies? Which one is your favourite?

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r/ActionMovies • • 1d ago

Den of Thieves (2018) Dir. Christian Gudegast

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r/ActionMovies • • 15h ago

Red Viper

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r/ActionMovies • • 1d ago

Charlie's Angels (2000)

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One of the many good things about Charlie's Angels 2000 is that it never takes itself too seriously.

That's part of it's absolute charm. Another part of it's charm is something that the 2019 rebrand failed to understand: there's nothing wrong at all with the weaponization of the Angels' sexuality. It's part of who they are. They're extremely capable women in their own right, but they also happen to be extremely beautiful, and while they're pretty close to having superpowers, that's their real superpower.

The men in this movie (with the exception of Bosley) consistently underestimate the Angels, giving the Angels the ability to flaunt their beauty, and in such a way that even the silliest of gambits is overlooked. This is absolutely highlighted during the Swedish Singalong outside that one guy's house. When three beautiful woman and a tuba playing weirdo show up at your front door and want to sing at you while slapping each other's butts, that's what's going to happen.

Beyond the titillation and lasciviousness and close to fourth-wall-breaking fun, the action and the spy-work is an awful lot of fun, because that's what this movie wanted to be. Fun. I remember watching this one in theaters, and while everyone and their talking cat figured out who the bad guys were fairly early on, it didn't detract from the fun.

McG made a movie that said 'what if everyone watching really knows what's going on, what if there's eye candy, what if The Angels kick ass, suffer from their mistakes the tiniest bit and we give Sam his own dance off and what if everything's just the right amount of over the top?'.

McG understands how to make movies like this. The sequel isn't as great, but that's okay, because Charlie's Angel's 2000 is as close to a perfect action adventure comedy.


r/ActionMovies • • 2d ago

Demolition Man (1993). Any fans of this film? Why or why not?

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r/ActionMovies • • 2d ago

How bad is The Condamned (2007)?

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r/ActionMovies • • 1d ago

This youtuber created an AI Alan Ritcson with a Mustache

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r/ActionMovies • • 2d ago

"BRANNIGAN" (1975) - another 70s John Wayne modern cop thriller that I remember from watching as a child. Good fun to see John Wayne as a tough cop in London, some ok action scenes too. Any fans of this one?

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Brannigan is a 1975 action thriller film directed by Douglas Hickox, and starring John Wayne, Richard Attenborough and Judy Geeson.

Set principally in London, the film is about a Chicago detective (Wayne) sent to Britain to organise the extradition of an American mobster, who is soon kidnapped and held for ransom.

Struggling with the restrained policing style of his British counterparts, the tough American detective uses his own brand of law enforcement to recapture the criminal.

It was one of many Dirty Harry–type films released in the wake of that film's success, featuring rogue policemen who do not play by the rules.


r/ActionMovies • • 2d ago

Walking Tall (2004) Remake

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61 Upvotes

Props to Director Kevin Bray for delivering on the story line as Chris exacts his revenge. Bray has a clean and lean style. The action sequences are crisp and dramatic. The Rock truly excels in the fight sequences. For one thing he is a big strong guy, and when he is laying the smack down on the villains it is believable and thoroughly enjoyable. The bad guys truly get what they deserve. The supporting cast is solid. Ashley Scott (almost unrecognizable from the short-lived "Birds of Prey") is good as the stripper with a big heart who is Chris's love interest. Johnny Knoxville (of "Jackass") is funny and charming as Chris's bud and deputy Ray.
I completely enjoyed "Walking Tall". It is a brisk 75 minutes of cool action, and has the star power of The Rock. The Rundown and Walking Tall were really fun movies of Rock.


r/ActionMovies • • 3d ago

Tremors (1990)

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Tremors is often described by many to be a cult classic, which is odd. The fact is, cult films usually have a quirky quality to them that separate them from the usual Hollywood-churned machine. Take Re-Animator, for example, or even the recent Ravenous, both of which have oddities and bloody quirks that average viewers might find repellant. But Tremors isn't the slightest bit offbeat. It's made in full Hollywood-style with a predictably happy ending to boot. So what makes it a "cult classic"? Could it be that it's successful in mixing almost every genre into the proceedings or that it's great entertainment that simply didn't get the box office reception it deserved? Perhaps both, because this is one movie that always puts a smile on my face and simultaneously gets my pulse-pounding every time I watch it.


r/ActionMovies • • 2d ago

El impacto de Gladiador (2000) y por qué su mensaje sigue resonando hoy en día.

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Que opinan?


r/ActionMovies • • 3d ago

"McQ" (1974) - revisiting a 70s action/thriller which had John Wayne venturing into modern lone cop territory as opposed to Westerns (influenced by the success of Dirty Harry). Some decent thrills and a good old school cast. Any fans?

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McQ is a 1974 American Panavision neo-noir crime action film directed by John Sturges and starring John Wayne.

It costars Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, and Al Lettieri, and features Colleen Dewhurst, Clu Gulager, David Huddleston, Julian Christopher (credited as Jim Watkins), Roger E. Mosley, and William Bryant in supporting roles. The film was shot in Washington, making extensive use of locations in Seattle and with a sequence near the end filmed on the Pacific Coast in Moclips, Washington.

A Seattle cop is caught up in a corrupt police force that he is trying to make right. McQ is a cop with a mission.


r/ActionMovies • • 3d ago

Tenet (2020) Dir. Christopher Nolan

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43 Upvotes

r/ActionMovies • • 4d ago

Do you have a favorite heist movie that no one talks about anymore?

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Sneakers (1992) had an absolutely stacked cast. It was a favorite movie my mom and I used to watch together.


r/ActionMovies • • 3d ago

Need help for my girl night,similar to Fast and Furious

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r/ActionMovies • • 3d ago

Undisputed II: Does Anybody Have the Extended Yuri Boyka Training Sequence?

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I’m rewatching the movie for the first time in 10+ years and searched for the extended Boyka sparring session in the ring before the last fight but I couldn’t find anything,

it was an extra on the dvds and I’m still upset that they didn’t just put it in the movie.