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Whether you're a fan of wild Westerns, cunning detectives, high-swinging superheroes, ravenous zombies, charming assassins, or hard-hitting heroines, Netflix has a movie pitch-perfect for every kind of adrenaline seeker. But scrolling through the app can be a chore when all you want to do is Netflix and chill. We've taken out the hard step, highlighting the most stunt-stuffed, battle-powered, high-speed films the streamer has to offer.
Netflix has invested big in Millie Bobby Brown. Not only has the English ingenue been leading Stranger Things for years, but also she's becoming an outright action star through movies she has headlined and produced for the streamer, including a pair of Enola Holmes adventures and this fearsome fairy tale: Damsel. Here, Brown stars as Elodie, a dutiful damsel destined to wed a handsome prince (Nick Robinson)! But rather than happily ever after, her deceitful groom pitches her into a dragon's pit. However, that's far from the end of her story. She'll fight her way to salvation and vengeance, one fiery sequence at a time.
It might be a cliche to say "This is the role they were born to play!" But when you witness the storming glory of Viola Davis as a hard-fighting general in The Woman King, that thought hits hard, fast, and repeatedly, like one's heartbeat as this historical epic kicks into action mode.
You've never seen an action movie quite as bombastic or as bromantic as RRR. Director S.S. Rajamouli draws loosely from history to tell the story of Indian freedom fighters Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.). Over the film's three-hour runtime, the two unwittingly face off in the search for a kidnapped girl, become the best of friends, and square off against villainous English colonizers.
This Netflix adventure has Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal coming together as a group of former Special Forces who plan an elaborate heist in South America. But after things get out of hand, their survival skills are put to the ultimate test.
Folks looking for that summer blockbuster thrill, search no further than The Old Guard. Based on the superhero comic books of the same name, director Gina Prince-Bythewood's movie sucks viewers into a slick, well-crafted world of action and narrative that isn't particularly unique but delivers its formulaic pieces with enough precision to keep you invested.
Long before she was kicking butt in the Star Wars prequels or the MCU, Natalie Portman played Mathilda, a precocious young girl who befriends a hitman in Leon: The Professional. Directed by Luc Besson, what might have been another '90s action flick splashed with blood and a preposterous plotline has an unexpected sweetness. This was thanks in no small part to French actor Jean Reno, who plays the titular assassin with an enchanting gentleness.
You don't know Godzilla until you see Godzilla Minus One. The American movies featuring the classic kaiju go for huge monster-versus-monster face-offs, bogged down by tedious human characters. But writer/director Takashi Yamazaki reclaims the Japanese icon with a movie that gets the balance between rampaging monster action and human drama just right.
Kristy Puchko is the Film Editor at Mashable. Based in New York City, she's an established film critic and entertainment reporter, who has traveled the world on assignment, covered a variety of film festivals, co-hosted movie-focused podcasts, interviewed a wide array of performers and filmmakers, and had her work published on RogerEbert.com, Vanity Fair, and The Guardian. A member of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA as well as a Top Critic on Rotten Tomatoes, Kristy's primary focus is movies. However, she's also been known to gush over television, podcasts, and board games. You can follow her on Twitter.
Extraction 2 is a definite improvement on the first, with positive reviews and a nomination for a Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Award under its belt. The movie has so much gunplay and brutal fighting, along with numerous mind-blowing set pieces, that your arm will get absolutely ripped from all the fist-pumping. Hemsworth injects his performance with endless charm, and in this second go-around, he gets to really dig into the layers of the character, exploring the mental and physical toll of being a black ops mercenary and the strain of his near-death experience.
From the uncovering of dark agency secrets to tense hostage situations, The Gray Man is everything you want from a flick like this. The movie did receive its share of negative reviews, but the ensemble cast and slick action sequences make up for what The Gray Man lacks in terms of narrative. The film did extremely well with viewers, with over 250 million hours watched on Netflix.
From director Timo Tjhajanto, the Netflix action pic The Night Comes for Us features a cast packed with familiar faces for action fans, especially fans of The Raid films, who will recognize Joe Taslim, Julie Estelle, Zack Lee, and, of course, Iko Uwais, who takes a supporting role but still shows up to work in some incredible fight scenes. The film follows a Triad enforcer who, after meeting a young girl and experiencing a change of heart, returns to his hometown to find himself targeted by ruthless fellow gangsters.
You may think you know all the ways you could inflict violence on the human body in a fight, but The Night Comes for Us still has something to teach you about the art of the splatter scene. The film is packed to the brim with bloody, brutal combat. The best feature film from Tjahjanto to date, The Night Comes for Us is a relentless showcase of action and carnage, rooted in the story of a criminal looking for a little redemption. The movie received nearly universal acclaim from critics, with the only complaint being that it might just be too violent.
Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, Red Notice stars Ryan Reynolds as Nolan Booth, the world's second-best art thief, who is forced to team up with FBI profiler John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) after they are both framed by the world's best art thief, a woman known only as the Bishop (Gal Gadot). What ensues is an international game of cat-and-mouse as Booth and Hartley compete with the Bishop to find a priceless artifact.
One of the most highly-watched Netflix movies ever, Red Notice is, in a word, awesome! Now, to be fair, the plot isn't all that well-thought-out, but the heist movie does score high for its humor and the performances by the lead actors. Though critically panned, Red Notice is an enjoyable movie with great action and a ton of hilarious scenes, and it has two sequels already in the pipeline.
The kicker of Triple Frontier is that there's actually a good amount of brains under all that brawn. The movie received largely positive reviews from critics, with praise for its direction and script. Sure, it's an explosions-and-helicopters flick first, but it also has a lot to say about what happens to professionally violent men once the gunfire stops. If Triple Frontier isn't your dad's favorite movie, that just means your dad hasn't seen it yet.
Written and directed by Jeremy Rush, Wheelman stars Frank Grillo as a getaway driver who is double-crossed during a bank robbery. With his family now in danger, the titular Wheelman must navigate a labyrinth of backstabbing and violence in order to survive. Besides Grillo in the lead role, the movie also stars Garret Dillahunt, Shea Whigham, and Caitlin Carmichael.
The movie is not perfect, of course. The police chase scenes do look rather slow when you compare them to other, err, bigger budget films, and the tiny-town action scenes can be a bit comical. Nevertheless, I found myself rewinding to make sure things were real and not CGI, and I was truly impressed.
Is there a genre that better epitomises the popcorn-ready blockbuster than action? So many Hollywood leading men have made their name irreverently shooting down bad guys, toppling monuments or blowing up remote missile solos. Just ask one Bond, James Bond.
The perfect way to get your adrenaline kicks without having to do anything in the way of physical exertion, action movies are a gateway into the room-rumbling, lens-flared world of stunts, fights, car races and cool guys walking away from explosions.
One of the best phenomenons of film is when an actor commonly associated with prestige gravitas or wholesome acclaim decides to kick ass all of a sudden. In 2014, Denzel Washington teamed up with longtime collaborator Antoine Fuqua to adapt the 80s crime show The Equalizer, about a vigilante hero balancing the books of good vs bad guys. Washington is part Sherlock Holmes, part Batman as he assesses each attack like a game of probability. Needless to say, we all love seeing Denzel beat up cronies so much we got two more films and then a TV show (sans Washington) was greenlit off the back. You can watch The Equalizer on Netflix.
Before Matthew Vaughn was spending $200m of Apple's money to invent gun ballet in Argylle, he cut his teeth as an auteur of the British gangster movie. After coming up alongside Guy Ritchie, his directorial debut was Layer Cake with a pre-007 Daniel Craig. It's your classic London drug lord underbelly film - cocaine gangs, dodgy dealers, witty banter between quirky geezers and a pinch of violence. It's rumoured this is the film that led to Craig's Bond casting, so if you want to see where it all began, look no further. You can watch Layer Cake on Netflix.
Jake Gyllenhaal, once the weirdo, unsettling king of indie cinema, is in a fun phase of his career right now which just seems to be dumb (complimentary) action movies where he has to get swole and punch people in the face. No complaints for us. Perhaps in the greatest meeting on lunatics ever (again, complimentary), in Ambulance, Gyllenhaal teams up with Michael Bay for some good old-fashioned Bayhem. The scene: a multi-million dollar heist has gone wrong and the only vehicle to commander is an ambulance full of hostages. As we said, classic Bay. You can watch Ambulance on Netflix.
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