Action moviesare often associated with hollow plots and are rarelyconsidered masterpieces or award-worthy.

Dreddis set in the dystopian and futuristic Mega City One.

If you might handle some gore,Dreddis the ideal action movie for a night in.

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Craig’s first Bond feature,Casino Royale, is the best action movie of the franchise.

Casino Royalefollows Bond after he first gets his ‘license to kill,’ aka his 007 title.

Entering a poker game,Bond becomes entwined in a cat-and-mouse chase with Le Chiffreand his associates.

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The movie has raw and visceral fight scenes, including great parkour and car chases.

Yet, Welsh directorGareth Evansconceived, wrote, and directed the movie and its sequel.

Uwais and Ruhiancreated the fight sequences, and Evans served as action supervisor on set.

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The actors went to military bootcamp to prepare for the role and embody real-life SWAT officers.

Vengeful and angry,Wick returns to his old ways in a hyper-stylized story with relentless actionand heavy combat.

The stunts are, of course, perfect.

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An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters who killed his dog and stole his car.

Fury Roadstill follows Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) as he wanders the desolate, desert world.

Heat has an extensive runtime, butits intensity and action-packed scenesmake it easy to watch (and rewatch).

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Scott’s vision was truly unique when he directedBlack Hawk Down.

The movie was full of firsts, including a bullet time scene that was filmed with plenty of cameras.

It’s OK; one guy lost a flash drive with 8,000 Bitcoins on it.

Le Chiffre, played by Mads Mikkelsen, glowering in ‘Casino Royale’

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He was arguably much worse off than some studio hotshot.

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Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, and Donny Alamsyah fighting in The Raid

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Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt HALO jumping out of a plane in Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters who killed his dog and stole his car.

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Max stands on top of a car facing the camera, preparing to jump, an explosion behind him in Mad Max: Fury Road

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Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer running with weapons down the middle of a street in Michael Mann’s Heat

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A group of soldiers next ot a fallen plane in Black Hawk Down.

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Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) offers Neo a blue pill and a red pill in The Matrix (1999).

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When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

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