Top 10 Best Action Movies of All Time

10. Air Force One

United States President James Marshall, portrayed by Harrison Ford, is returning from a diplomatic visit to Russia aboard Air Force One, a Boeing 747 specially designated for presidential travel. The purpose of his trip was to commemorate the successful overthrow of Kazakhstan’s dictator. Alongside President Marshall on this journey are members of his presidential staff, his wife, and daughter. Unusually, a small group of journalists have been invited aboard the aircraft for the trip.

The journalists soon reveal themselves as Russian terrorists in disguise, receiving covert help from a Secret Service agent named Gibbs, who supplies them with weapons to hijack the aircraft and its occupants. The crew attempts to evacuate President Marshall, but he refuses to leave, choosing to stay onboard with his family and staff.

With control of Air Force One, the terrorists demand the release of General Radek, the imprisoned dictator of Kazakhstan. President Marshall, forced into action, systematically combats the terrorists to regain control of the aircraft. This intense confrontation leads to casualties within the presidential team and exposes traitors among them. Ultimately, President Marshall manages to retake control, surviving the dramatic destruction of Air Force One and safely reuniting with his family.

9. Lethal Weapon

Martin Riggs played by Mel Gibson is a CIA-trained LAPD officer who was suicidal after the death of his wife in a car accident. Riggs was trained to perform secret operations, with great experience and recklessness, which made him a man to fear. While Roger Murtaugh, played by Danny Glover, is just the opposite. He is a very responsible and mature homicide cop, a good family man who is Riggs’ partner on the job. Both hate working together, but are forced to share in order to survive. When a routine murder investigation leads them to an international heroin trafficking organization. Far more dangerous and difficult than they could have imagined.

This peculiar couple of police officers will forge a great and close friendship between many shots, chases and jokes. This spectacular film ends with a great confrontation without limits between Riggs and his angel of death (Gary Buses), this exceptional final scene includes three different styles of martial arts.

8. The Equalizer

Robert McCall played by Denzel Washington is a former special operations commander. He faked his death years ago in order to have a quiet life in Boston. Robert is a mysterious, quiet, and highly perfectionist man who works dutifully at a Home Mart like anyone else. He lives alone and spends his free time reading and helping others. He maintains a low profile, but little by little, we begin to see who he truly is.

All this changes when Robert meets an underage prostitute named Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz) and slave of a Russian mafia. Robert tries to pay the Russian mafia for Teri’s freedom. They obviously don’t accept his deal, and he decides to kill them. From this moment on a literal war breaks out between Robert and the Russian mafia led by Vladimir Pushkin who has no choice but to send his best man to investigate who caused these deaths, this man is Teddy (Marton Csokas) a rather cruel and ruthless person.

Robert not only managed to finish off Teddy and the Russian mobsters in Boston, he freed Teri and then traveled to Russia, entered Pushkin’s mansion and killed him. In the end McCall continues to use his skills to help those in need, offering his service through online ads where he identifies himself as “The Equalizer”.

7. Fast Five

The fifth film in the Fast and Furious saga. Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) is being transported to prison, but Mia and Brian (Paul Walker) hijack the bus and free him. They escape to Rio de Janeiro.

While waiting for Dom, Mia and Brian team up with Vince to steal cars from a train. They learn the cars are seized by the DEA. Mia takes one car, and they soon discover it contains a chip. The chip holds financial details of Hernan Reyes’ criminal empire—including the location of $100 million in cash.

Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and his team arrive in Rio to capture Dom and Brian. With help from officer Elena Neves, Hobbs arrests them. But Reyes’ men ambush the convoy. A violent shootout kills Hobbs’ entire team. Dom and his crew save Hobbs and Elena. Vince is shot during the escape and later dies.

Hobbs vows revenge and joins Dom’s crew to steal Reyes’ money. The vault is inside a police station. Dom’s team pulls it out with two cars, leading to a massive chase.

Hobbs joins the chase and kills Reyes. He gives Dom and Brian 24 hours to escape—but tells them to leave the vault behind. They agree and drive off. When Hobbs opens the vault, it’s empty. Dom’s crew had switched it. They split the cash and send part to Vince’s family. Then, they all go their separate ways.

6. Die Hard

John McClane (starring Bruce Willis) is a New York City cop who visits his wife in Los Angeles. She attended a company Christmas party held in a skyscraper in Los Angeles called Nakatomi Plaza on the 30th floor. And McClane decides to go see her there. While he changes his clothes in a bathroom, a group of terrorists arrive at the building and take the guests hostage. John being the only person in the building without the terrorists knowing about it.

This building is taken over by 13 very well armed terrorists. They go to the 30th floor to try to find Mr. Takagi and give Nakatomi Corporations a greedy one. John is armed with a simple gun and starts following them. He heads up to the roof and tries to contact the police for help, but instead, he picks up their radio channel. Over the broadcast, he’s told that he must use a phone to reach them, or they’ll have to report him for a serious violation.. Seeing that he has no way to communicate for help, he decides to take the law into his own hands. This generates a true and epic fight to the death between the terrorists and Lone John, resulting in a victorious McClane and freeing all the hostages from the hands of these terrorists.

5. The Matrix

The Matrix is about a simulated world, where people are the source of energy that sustains “a world” that is dominated by intelligent machines. Neo is the one choose to save men (man outside the Matrix world) from those machines.

Is the world what it seems? Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), a programmer for a major software company and a computer hacker by the name of Neo will find out that it is not. He will be contacted by a strange group led by Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne), who will show him the true reality behind the apparent: a world dominated by machines, which enslave Humanity to use our bodies as a simple source of energy. But, and our mind, where is it then? the answer is in the Matrix.

4. Taken

Former elite special forces operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) becomes entangled in a dangerous plot involving a criminal organization specializing in human trafficking and prostitution. His mission becomes urgent when his only daughter, Kim, is kidnapped, leaving him with only 96 hours to locate and rescue her before she disappears permanently.

Kim travels to Paris with her friend Amanda, where she witnesses Amanda’s abduction by unknown assailants while on the phone with her father. The kidnappers soon capture Kim as well, taking her phone. Bryan overhears the kidnapping and delivers a threat to the abductors, promising severe consequences if they harm his daughter.

Bryan immediately travels to Paris and uncovers that the kidnappers are members of an Albanian crime syndicate involved in the human trafficking of young women. Utilizing his elite skills and experience, Bryan systematically dismantles the criminal operation, ultimately rescuing Kim within the critical 96-hour timeframe.

3. John Wick

John Wick (Keanu Reeves), a retired legendary hitman, finds peace after marrying the love of his life, Helen. When she dies of a terminal illness, her final gift to him—a puppy named Daisy—helps him cope with the loss. But after a chance encounter at a gas station, a group of Russian gangsters led by Iosef Tarasov target John, steal his 1969 Mustang, and kill his puppy.

Their mistake? Leaving John alive.

Fueled by grief and rage, Wick comes out of retirement, igniting a brutal war with the Russian mob. As Iosef’s father, crime boss Viggo Tarasov, places a bounty on his head, John systematically takes down anyone in his way—until he exacts revenge on both Iosef and Viggo.

2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Sarah Connor, mother of 10-year-old John Connor, is locked in a mental hospital after claiming her son will lead humanity in a future war against machines—a truth revealed to her by a time traveler. Trained by Sarah in survival, John becomes the target of a deadly new android, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), sent from the future to kill him. His only protector: an older model T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

What follows is a fierce battle between two machines—one to end the future, the other to save it. In the end, the T-800 defeats the T-1000 by destroying it in molten metal. To ensure Skynet is never created, the T-800 chooses to self-destruct, eliminating all traces of its technology and seemingly averting doomsday.

1. Batman: The Dark Knight

atman returns to fight Gotham’s crime with help from Lt. Gordon and DA Dent, forming a strong alliance for justice. Their efforts gain momentum until a new threat appears—the Joker, a chaotic anarchist with no desire for power or money. The Joker spreads terror, pushing Batman to his limits and demanding he reveal his identity or face endless destruction. He aims to plunge Gotham into chaos and expose the hidden darkness within its citizens and their masked protector.