The Top Ten Action Movies Ever Made
Here's what I consider the ten top action movies from the past thirty-five years
. Please notice that I have left out westerns, comic book superheroes, action comedies (such as "Ghostbusters"), and war ,ovies, each of which I think is a category all by itself. In order from the oldest to the most recent, we have:
1. Mad Max (1979)
George Miller directed this first of his three-film vision of an apocalyptic near-future. Mel Gibson was only 23 when he took the role of Max Rockatansky, a motorcycle cop out to take vengeance on the biker gang that killed his wife and baby son. The whole film is a wild ride of fights and chases on vehicles out of madman's nightmare.
2. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
The second Mad Max movie is all about gasoline: who has it, who wants it, and what will be done to get it. Once Mad Max starts barreling that eighteen-wheeler down the highway through a mob of crazies out to stop him with an army of whacked-out cycles, trucks, and hot rods, there's no end to the action.
3. The Terminator (1984)
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the unstoppable killer robot from the future sent back from the future to eliminate Earth's hope, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), the mother-to-be of the man who will become the leader of the resistance to the cyborg rule. It's one long explosive chase, with no way to stop an invincible robot.
4. Aliens (1986)
The first movie was great, but it was more a "haunted house" story. This sequel is the return of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) to a colony planet infested with the aliens -- and here come the Space Marines! There's more desperate combat than you'd ever imagine. And you'll love watching Paul Reiser get eaten.
5. Lethal Weapon (1987)
It's the first of the cop buddy movies, with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as an unlikely team. Gary Busey is over the top as the bad guy's enforcer, and the stunts and martial arts set this film apart from all the others.
6. Die Hard (1988)
It's Bruce Willis' turn to fight the terrorists -- he just keeps coming back, no matter what they throw at him. In this first film of the series, the bad guys have hijacked a skyscraper, and wisecracking John McClane becomes the monkey-wrench to their plans.
7. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The second Terminator film puts Arnold in the same role as a cyborg, but here, he's a good guy. Robert Patrick is the liquid-metal T-1000 sent from the future to take out Arnold and Sarah. Chases, Stunts and special effects are all fantastic.
8. Speed (1994)
A bus? Yeah, a bus. But, Dennis Hopper's the creepy bad guy, and Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock have to survive his devious plans, which somehow involve a fully loaded speeding bus that, if stopped, blows up. It's a stunt-filled chase with no pursuer and very little gunfire, but the tension is unbelievable.
9. The Matrix (1999)
This Wachowski brothers film is a landmark for special effects, martial arts, and sheer ingenuity. There's "bullet-time" to puzzle you, and Keanu Reeves is so cool as Neo. What is real? At the end, do we really know?
10. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Jason Bourne wants to live a simple life with his girlfriend, but the CIA wants him back -- or do they simply want him dead? The action is quite intense and really well done, and the plot is filled with surprises; camera work is fast-paced and gritty.
Just bubbling under these ten top action movies, we find all the "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon" sequels, 2010's "Avatar," 1987's "Predator," Eddie Murphy's "Beverly Hills Cop" films, and Brendan Frasier's "Mummy" movies. And we do have to mention all the films in both the STAR WARS and the STAR TREK universes (with some obvious exceptions, which I leave as an exercise for the reader), and any movie starring either Jean-Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal. Left out completely (for good reason) are "Speed 2," and any movie that stars a vampire, a werewolf, or both.
by: Ray Lewis
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