The 25 Best Action Movies to Get Your Blood Pumping

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Gem Seddon and GamesRadar present The 25 Best Action Movies to Get Your Blood Pumping.  Seddon has come up with a great list.  It was hard to pick just three, so depending on my mood, my choices could change.  But for now, here they are (with some thoughts to follow)…

5. Aliens (1986)
Action hero: Ellen Ripley

The film: Ridley Scott’s atmospheric opener saw Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) trapped on a spaceship with a single Xenomorph, so it made sense for James Cameron’s sequel to try and up the ante: an abandoned space colony, a unit of gung-ho marines and an entire hive of acid bleeding bugs.

Most action-packed scene: Confronting the queen in the bowels of the industrial complex, Ripley has a few nice mother-to-mother moments before later strapping into the power loader and fighting her claw to claw.

 

2. Die Hard (1988)
Action hero: John McClane

The film: New York cop John McClane picks the first of many wrong places and wrong times to visit his wife at work, but for star Bruce Willis and director John McTiernan, the timing couldn’t have been better. Putting an ordinary Joe in the middle of a firefight, confining a terrorist takeover to a single, claustrophobic building, and balancing quip-smart dialogue with hard and heavy action set-pieces, Die Hard set the mold and broke it at the same time.

Most action-packed scene: A rooftop bomb. A short fire hose. A plate glass window. The rest is history.

 

8. John Wick (2014)
Action hero: John Wick

The film: Director Chad Stahelski overcomes first-time jitters in his filmmaking debut, largely due to his experiences as a martial arts stunt co-ordinator. This revenge actioner throws in some dark motivating factors for Keanu Reeves leading man. His vendetta kill mission is the most dazzling work Reeves has accomplished since his first time tackling Neo.

Most action-packed scene: Wick enters a club wherein he punches, kicks, headbutts and shoots anyone who crosses his path. Each strike hits with an eerie precision.

I was glad to see Stallone made the top 25 with First Blood. I was also happy to see both John Wick films made the cut.  If it was my list I would have found room for Rambo and Enter the Dragon.