Great action movies also have stakes that feel real. They break genre conventions, use fights to flesh out characters, and balance out frenetic action with quieter moments. With these factors in mind, ...

From Atomic Blonde to Drunken Master II, these action movies have the greatest, most exhilarating, and all-around impressive fighting in the genre.

Daniel is a 27-year-old List Writer for Collider living in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. As an avid film buff, he watches and analyzes many films and TV shows, especially in the horror genre ...

Everyone likes a good action movie, but everyone loves a great one. The art of the action genre has evolved in the last few decades, as visual effects have shoved human on-set accomplishment to the ...

What do we do when we start making a movie? We yell “action!” because that’s what this medium is all about. On a basic, primal level, we’re just watching people do stuff. The cooler that stuff is, the ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

Much like earlier decades, the 2000s had plenty of movies and characters that became household names and defined genres. The differentiator for the action genre here, though, came down to certain ...

Looking back at the past year in film, action remains a reliable genre both at the box office and on streaming. Action occupies six spots on the list of the 12 highest-grossing movies of 2024. From ...

We’re looking at the best of the best when it comes to 2025 movie action sequences. They didn’t have to come from straightforward action movies, meaning genre-blenders were equally subject to ...