Top Action Movies


The Top Action Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Action List". Lists are calculated daily.

251. Shaolin Soccer ( Siu lam juk kau )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stephen Chow
Actors: Stephen Chow, Man Tat Ng, Wei Zhao, Yin Tse, Hui Li, Chi Ling Chiu
Plot: A lowly man seeks to combine his loves of soccer and kung-fu. Can he manage to assemble a soccer team that feels his passion and can tap into their true skills? Hold on for a fabulous adventure!

252. Why Don't You Play in Hell? ( Jigoku de naze warui )

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Jun Kunimura, Fumi Nikaidô, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino, Tomochika
Plot: A renegade film crew, dubbed The F*%k Bombers, finally realizes their decades-long passion to make a film - as long as they don't mind being embroiled in Yakuza clan feud where several parties will surely wind up dead.

253. Highlander

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, Jon Polito, Beatie Edney
Plot: As he tries to keep one step ahead of the New York City police, who believe him to be a suspect in a murder in the parking garage of Madison Square Garden, a man born in the 1500's battles another immortal who tried to kill him centuries ago.

254. Fist of Legend ( Jing wu ying xiong )

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gordon Chan
Actors: Jet Li, Shinobu Nakayama, Siu-hou Chin, Billy Chow, Yasuaki Kurata, Paul Chun
Plot: Chen Zhen leaves Shanghai for Kyoto and finds nothing but insult and abuse
from the Japanese, especially after pursuing Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of
the director. Yet when he learns of the death of his old kung fu master -
he returns home determined to prove his master died not in a fight, but
through poisoning. The honor of Chen and Japan are at stake, leading to
one final, epic battle that will settle the score once and for all.

255. 22 Jump Street

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Actors: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube, Dave Franco, Nick Offerman, Peter Stormare
Plot: Surviving high school (twice), officers Schmidt and Jenko take on a new undercover assignment targeting the local college.

256. Ip Man 2 ( Yip Man 2: Chung si chuen kei )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wilson Yip
Actors: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Siu-Wong Fan, Darren Shahlavi
Plot: Ip Man continues his journey to Hong Kong where he will spread his Wing
Chun martial arts style.

257. The Incredible Hulk

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Louis Leterrier
Actors: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell
Plot: In this comic book movie based off of the same name of the Marvel hero (and a new version to the 2001 release) a scientist whose experiment goes wrong is forced to try to cope with his anger and the mysterious after affects of what he has become and what he can become. He must try to control his anger but use it wisely enough to destroy a more deadly, out of control version of himself.

258. Treasure Planet

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Actors: Roscoe Lee Browne, Corey Burton, Emma Thompson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Laurie Metcalf, David Hyde Pierce

259. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Actors: Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Angela Bassett, Simon Pegg
Plot: A rogue computer programs has infiltrated the world's intelligence agencies, financial intuitions, military and more. Named The Entity, it has the power to control everything - including what constitutes the truth itself for the future and every nation wants to have this power for themselves. A special key - made up of two parts - can open the door to this power, but only if one knows what it unlocks. Ethan Hunt is once again called upon as the fate of the world hangs in the balance with old friends, new faces and one unexpected enemy going along on the most important mission yet.

260. El Dorado

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Edward Asner, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix
Plot: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

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