There are dozens of films about firefighters and firefighting, including many documentaries, silent movies and comedies. In other words, as long as movies have been made, firefighting has been one of the subjects.
Note: Many of the screenplays will differ from the final cut of the movies due to film editing, shooting draft changes, and the fact that some are earlier drafts. Also, some of the scripts don't adhere to the general contemporary guidelines and expectations that novice screenwriters should abide by. When in doubt, always err on those guidelines and expectations. Some scripts follow a dated format while others are written by established professionals that have format leeway and are allowed to go beyond the general 90-120 page count guideline.
From the taciturn classics of the seventies, through the one-man-army trope of the eighties, the mismatched-buddy duos of the nineties and the universe-saving superheroics of the present day, allow Empire to guide you through 50 of the best action movies of all time.
Steve McQueen is the all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop who becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. It's a movie with sequences that that all future car chases would be measured by, and under the sure direction of Peter Yates, most would be found wanting. Rubber-burning action around (and over) the city's hilly streets makes this a defining landmark in vehicular chaos. The Fast movies might have the scale, but Bullitt has the grit.
2018 saw Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise's collaboration on the M:I movies blossom into the most successful entry yet. It's full of the bananas action Cruise has become known for in this franchise: literally throwing himself into harm's way in search of the most breathtaking action beats. It might not have done much for McQuarrie's stress levels (or Cruise's body), but for audiences it's an adrenaline rush like few others.
In the 1980s, action movies tended to be the preserve of muscle men, chain-gunning their way to body-counts of infinitude. At the decade's close, a TV comedy star and a sci-fi/horror director made an action movie about a regular joe in the wrong place at the wrong time... and inadvertently made the greatest action movie of all time (read our ultimate viewing guide to understand the full extent of its majesty). It's sometimes easy to forget that John McClane was a product of the eighties (only Holly McClane's hair and Ellis' coke habit really signpost the era), but that's what you get for being a timeless classic. Yippee ki, and indeed, yay.
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