| Season 2 Top 40 All Time Favourited Action Films – 07/10/2020 Welcome to Find Me A Film |
| You know there are thousands of old and new films out there every day, but at times it’s just not always easy to find an excellent movie when you really need it and more so on the genre you want! Considering there is the likes of Netflix and Amazon and Sky and cable and a whole host of variety and YET when we want to find a film to watch – what happens? We can spend up to an hour flicking through options and then losing interest …. but there are some truly excellent films out there … so what are they in your eyes? |
Todays Topical Genre is – …
Top 40 All Time Favourited Action Films
My thanks to the following readers for casting their votes and selections …
| Paula of Light Motifs II All the 007s! |
| Jenna Kirkpatrick Vantage Point, Entrapment, The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Angie of King Ben’s Grandma The Underworld Series, The Matrix Series, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Shaun of the Dead, Lara Croft Series, Rush Hour Series, The Bourne Series, X- Men movies… |
| Lauren of ISS Attitude of Gratitude The Matrix |
| Kitt Wolf of Crap Kitten Writes The Thomas Crowne Affair |
| Sadje of Keep it Alive All the 007s! |
| Gary of Bereaved Single Dad Marvel Movies, Avenger Movies, Captain America Civil War, Indxependence Day,Terminator 3, The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones – The Last Crusade, Mission Impossible – Fallout, Dirty Harry, Die Hard, Commando |
| Suzanne of Ellie894 Die Hard, The Avengers [Orig], Highlander [Orig], The A – Team [Neeson], Gladiator, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Escape from New York, Robin Hood [Crowe], All 007’s, Skyfall, |
| Lisa of Lismore Paper Raiders of the Lost Ark series |
| Melanie of Sparks from a combustible mind RED, Expendable Series, Bruce Willis Action, Jason Staham films, Die Hard series, Fifth Element, |
| A Guy Called Bloke Crank, Lucy, The French Connection, Assault on Precinct 13, Mr and Mrs Smith |
Now we have some absolute crackers here for the Action genre, but also some crossovers too which will be better awarded to their own genres later on in Season 2 – such as Top 24 James Bond Movies, Top 40 Sci-Fi Films and the Top 40 Horror Movies and Top 40 Sci-Fi Fantasy although l will show a small selection of each of those genres today but worry not for the films not listed today – they soon will be and my thanks for taking part and contributing,.
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| 1 | Die Hard – 1988 |
Die Hard is an American action film series that originated with Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever.
| 2 | Die Hard 2 – 1990 |
When a team of terrorists threaten to destroy an airport and demand the release of the drug lord Ramon Esperanza, detective John McClane tries to stop them.
| 3 | Die Hard with a Vengeance – 1995 |
John McClane must enlist the help of Zeus Carver, a local shop owner, to stop Simon, a former colonel from East Germany, from detonating bombs across New York.
| 4 | Live Free Or Die Hard – 2007 |
The Director of FBI’s Cyber Crime Division assigns John McClane the task of tracking down a hacker. John ends up working with Thomas, an ethical hacker who helps him deal with the cyber criminals.
| 5 | A Good Day To Die Hard – 2013 |
Set in his ways, no-nonsense cop John McClane travels to Moscow, Russia to help his wayward son, Jack. But, when Jack turns out to be an undercover CIA agent, father and son team up to gun down goons.
| 6 | Mission Impossible -Fallout – 2018 |
A group of terrorists plans to detonate three plutonium cores for a simultaneous nuclear attack on different cities. Ethan Hunt, along with his IMF team, sets out to stop the carnage.
| 7 | The A – Team – 2010 |
After succeeding on a special mission in Iraq, four American soldiers may face a court martial for losing important evidence. Six months later, they get a chance to clear their names.
| 8 | Escape from New York – 1981 |
Gruff Snake Plissken, an ex-soldier turned convict, is sent to Manhattan, now a maximum security prison, to rescue the stranded US President.
| 9 | RED – [Retired Extremely Dangerous] – 2010 |
Frank Moses, a former black-ops agent, learns that his life is under threat from an assassin. In a bid to protect himself, he reunites with his old team to nab the man who has vowed to kill him.
| 10 | The Fifth Element – 1997 |
Korben Dallas, a cab driver, tries to secure four mystical stones and a mysterious fifth element that alone can defeat a cosmic evil force during an apocalyptic war.
| 11 | Dirty Harry – 1971 |
In the year 1971, a police detective ignores the orders of his superiors and gambles with innocent lives to capture a sniper terrorizing San Francisco
| 12 | Crank – 2006 |
Chev, an assassin-for-hire, is injected with a serum that requires him to always keep his adrenaline levels high in order to survive.
| 13 | Lucy – 2014 |
Lucy is a 2014 French science fiction action film written and directed by Luc Besson and produced by his wife Virginie Besson-Silla for his company EuropaCorp. It is an English-language film shot in Taipei, Paris, and New York City. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, and Amr Waked.
| 14 | Entrapment – 1999 |
Virginia, an insurance agent, sets out to nab MacDougal, a master thief who steals exquisite pieces of art. To do so, she masquerades as a thief herself and together they steal priceless artefacts.
| 15 | Vantage Point – 2008 |
US President Henry Ashton attends a summit in Spain to sign a treaty but is shot by an unknown sniper. Subsequently, an explosion takes place in the square, which leads to absolute chaos.
| 16 | Mr & Mrs Smith – 2005 |
A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realise they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.
| 17 | The Thomas Crowne Affair – 1999 |
Billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of his luxurious life and starts stealing precious works of art. However, he meets his match in Catherine Banning, an insurance investigator looking into the thefts.
| 18 | The Matrix – 1999 |
The Matrix is an American media franchise created by the Wachowskis. The series primarily consists of a trilogy of science fiction action films beginning with The Matrix and continuing with two sequels,
| 19 | The Bourne Identity – 2002 |
A man with a bullet-ridden body is found and looked after by strangers. He wakes up with a blank memory and begins a journey to learn his identity, unaware that the road ahead is full of danger.
| 20 | The Bourne Supremacy – 2004 |
When he is falsely framed in a CIA operation, Jason Bourne is forced to return to his old ways as an assassin, in order to figure out why they are still after him.
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| 21 | The Bourne Ultimatum – 2007 |
Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin who suffers from amnesia, sets out to track down a CIA official whilst trying to retain memories of a forgotten past.
| 22 | The Bourne Legacy – 2012 |
The US Department of Defense, which runs covert operations, offers stimulants to its field operatives for better results. When discovered, an English reporter plans to expose these secret activities.
| 23 | Jason Bourne – 2016 |
Jason Bourne, a former CIA agent, is drawn out of hiding by CIA director Robert Dewey. He then sets out to discover more about his past, family and his father’s death.
| 24 | Raiders of the Lost Ark – 1981 |
Archaeology professor Indiana Jones ventures to seize a biblical artefact known as the Ark of the Covenant. While doing so, he puts up a fight against Renee and a troop of Nazis.
| 25 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – 1984 |
Indiana Jones, a legendary archaeologist, finds himself in India, where a bunch of poor villagers reach out to him to track down an ancient stone that has been stolen by an evil priest.
| 26 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – 1989 |
Archaeology professor Indiana Jones ventures to seize a biblical artefact known as the Ark of the Covenant. While doing so, he puts up a fight against Renee and a troop of Nazis.
| 27 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – 2008 |
A renowned archaeologist and explorer, Indiana Jones, teams up with a young man in order to unearth the mystery behind the legendary crystal skulls.
| 28 | Skyfall – 2012 |
An ex-MI6 agent steals a hard drive with top secret information to carry out a vendetta on Bond’s overseer, M. Bond must face his past in a bid to try and save M.
| 29 | Spectre – 2015 |
James Bond receives an obscure message from M about a sinister organisation, ‘SPECTRE’. With the help of Madeleine, he uncovers the conspiracy, only to face an ugly truth.
| 30 | Commando – 1985 |
Ex-black ops commando John’s daughter Jenny is kidnapped by a band of revenge-seeking thugs. With only a few hours to find and rescue his girl, he sets out on an explosive mission.
| 31 | The Count of Monte Cristo – 2002 |
Dantes, a sailor is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes’ girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d’If for 13 years.
| 32 | Rush Hour – 1998 |
When a Chinese consul’s young daughter is kidnapped, Hong Kong Detective Lee must team up with Carter, a loud-mouthed LA detective. Distinctive work styles and cultural differences pose hiccups.
| 33 | Rush Hour 2 – 2001 |
Detective James Carter and Inspector Lee are vacationing in Hong Kong. Things take a turn when a bomb explosion at the US Consulate kills two undercover customs agents and Lee is assigned to the case.
| 34 | Rush Hour 3 – 2007 |
Inspector Lee and LAPD detective James Carter travel to Paris to protect a French witness from the attacks of the Chinese triads. The two battle it out against the world’s most deadly criminals.
| 35 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – 2001 |
Lara Croft, an adventurer, embarks on a journey to find an artefact that possesses the ability to control time. A secret society wants to lay its hands on the relic for its own immoral purposes.
| 36 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life – 2003 |
Lara Croft races against time to locate the legendary Pandora’s box before it falls in the hands of the evil Jonathan Reiss, who plans to use the box to make weapons of mass destruction.
| 37 | Gladiator – 2000 |
Commodus takes over power and demotes Maximus, one of the preferred generals of his father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius. As a result, Maximus is relegated to fighting till death as a gladiator.
| 38 | The Expendables – 2010 |
A group of mercenaries are tasked with a mission to overthrow a Latin American dictator. But they soon discover that he is a mere puppet controlled by a ruthless ex-CIA officer.
| 39 | The Expendables 2 – 2012 |
All hell breaks loose when Barney, along with his band of old-school mercenaries, sets out on a path of carnage after one of their comrades gets killed during a simple task assigned by Mr Church.
| 40 | Assault on Precinct 13 – 1976 |
A group of individuals trapped in a police station are attacked by a horde of street gang members.
So there we go folks our Top 40 All Time Favourited Action Films!
Were your choices in here?
What would your choices be?
Next time – Top 24 James Bond Movies – which ones are your favourites?
Love, love love Jackie Chan movies! And certainly the Indiana Jones movies. Never seen any of the others I’m afraid (well, maybe the 1st or 2nd James Bond). I hate to say this but I get a big kick out of the “Deadpool” movies. (And yes, ‘Gladiator’ was a great movie but I wouldn’t call it an action but rather in the same category as ‘Braveheart’ – historical??)
Well all good movies Grace —
Interestingly enough Braveheart is classed under the genre of War Drama by IMDB and yet described by Wiki as Historical Drama and l wouldn’t class it as Historical as it ‘s pretty far fetched from actual events but good audience capture.
Gladiator thankfully had the sense to not class itself as historical but rightfully under action and adventure because as historically ambient as it may have been it was historically and grossly inaccurate but again great audience fodder.
Now Deadpool is a great flick for action and comedy and luckily had the foresense to only class itself as those genres and not something silly like Scientific or Drama – but it’s a Marvel which is mostly Fantastical Action Adventure and mixed in with Sci-Fi Fantasy – so it’s always a hard one to grapple when there are so many film genres 🙂
i guess I like my ‘action’ movies with great gooey gobs of humor!
I think that also makes for a good action movie 🙂
Oh you reminded me of a whole raft of films that I’ve enjoyed over the years! The Jackie Chan movies are some of my favorites (well anything he has starred in, he’s an excellent comedian, let alone action star!!) I’d forgotten about the Indiana Jones series and that certainly was excellent! There was another, far shorter lived ‘series’ (two movies) which starred a younger Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner “The Jewel of the Nile” and a sequel (the name to which I’ve forgotten), which were great action films too. And the “Mummy” series starring Brenden Fraser was another really good one, as was “National Treasure” (the first movie, I didn’t care too much for the 2nd one) with Nicholas Cage. You’ve proven that action films don’t have to be about mindless violence and gore.. Thanks Rory!!
Oh you have mentioned some real good ones there Melanie, some that Grace too would love with their comedy aspect – one series l always liked pre- series for TV was The Librarian movies 🙂
Romancing The Stone was the other MD & KT movie. They were good!
Yes it was excellent, there were three weren’t there?
Great list of movies, I’m glad others added the ones I missed. I think I’ve seen all but 2 or 3 of these.
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It was a good listing 🙂
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