These crowd-pleasing punches are the best for you if you need action right away.‘em-ups on Netflix, from the impossible gravity-defying stunts of “Inception” to Tom Cruise dramatically dangling, running, and gunning in the “Mission: Impossible” films, and maybe a few action flicks you haven’It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.
Mission: Impossible
Relive the thrills of Ethan Hunt’s precarious hacking-while-hanging from the first film in the franchise and one of our favorite installments of Tom Cruise Running Away From Things, in this case, A deadly flood of water following the explosion of a large fish tank at a restaurant.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Another death-defying stunt: climbing Burj Khalifa, and then running away from a sandstorm. Ethan Hunt is just another day.
Inception
Our mind is still blown by the stunning set pieces in Christopher Nolan’s 2010 elaborate heist movie, including the disorienting hallway fight in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes on determined dream assassins while, on another level, the van full of sleeping thieves falls in excruciating slow motion. You can hear Hans Zimmer’s shiver-inducing score just by looking at this photo.
Spider-Man
Would we have so many great superhero films today if Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire hadn’t totally delivered with this still great comic- book movie? (And we’re not just talking pizzas, which happens to be Peter Parker’s day job.) Willem Dafoe’s cackling Green Goblin is suitably villainous, but we love the insanity of the unmasked Norman Osborn even more.
Spider-Man 2
One of the rare superhero sequels that improves upon the original with Alfred Molina’s sympathetic (but totally deranged) villain Doc Ock. The brilliant surgery scene that went wrong, the standoff with the bank and the train battle sequence where New Yorkers come together to protect Spidey when he is at his most vulnerable are some of the highlights.
Casino Royale
Daniel Craig’s terrific first outing as 007 is refreshingly back to business as he goes up against one of the best Bond villains ever, Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), and romances the elusive Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). The film’s outstanding parkour, high-speed car chase (and crash) and the deadly stairwell battle are just a few of the reasons why it is our favorite.
Léon: The Professional
Jean Reno’s ultra-stealthy assassin takes out an entire room of bodyguards — and that’s just the opening to Luc Besson’s eminently rewatchable follow-up to “La Femme Nikita.”We love Natalie Portman’s learning of how to “clean” (we’re still waiting for that grown-up Mathilda movie) and of course Gary Oldman’s sociopathic, Beethoven-loving cop and that (ahem) blowout finale.
Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan’s intense World War II epic about the 1940 Battle of Dunkirk, in which more than 330,000 British soldiers were left stranded on the beach without transport while being strafed by German airplanes, takes place on four fronts: On the beach with the increasingly desperate troops, at sea as British civilians rush to their rescue, behind the lines as military officers make the hard decisions, and in the air with Tom Hardy’s heroic pilot.
RRR
This 3-hour Indian action drama features two revolutionaries taking on British colonizers and a tiger! India of the 1920s has to be seen in order to be believed.
We Are Here for the Night
If you’re looking for action that is literally bone-breaking — and some of the bloodiest battles ever put on film — queue up this Indonesian crime flick from director Timo Tjahjanto. If you’ve got the stomach for it.
The Paper Tigers
This comedy is a hidden gem that features three middle-aged men who used to be in the same dojo when young. They team up with their Kung Fu master to solve the murder. Their new friendship is rough and their martial arts skills are rusty, but they can still kick some ass when needed.
The Dirty Dozen
During World War II, Lee Marvin’s Army major is tasked with training a dozen convicted soldiers to infiltrate a Nazi stronghold. John Cassavetes and Jim Brown are among the misfits who were also murderers. (Fair warning: Telly Savalas’s character is an unreformed rapist.) This Robert Aldrich film remains a classic, for good reason.
Ip Man
If you’ve only seen Donnie Yen in “Rogue One,”Check out his “Ip Man”Film series in which he plays the title character, who was later to train martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
The more they fall,
Regina King and Lakeith Stanfield are badass Outlaws. Jonathan Major, Jonathan Major, Idris Elba and Delroy Lindsayo are the Black U.S. Marshalls. Bass Reeves is seen in this irreverent revisionist western by Jeymes Samuel (aka The Bullitts).
Triple Frontier
Retired special forces experts team up to rob a druglord’s millions in this high-stakes heist flick that brings together the dream team of Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Charlie Hunnam, and Garrett Hedlund.
