![]() ![]() ![]() They might not be fully realistic, and their plots might not exactly be even remotely logical, but that'd more than made up for with how entertaining the movies are. Kingsman: The Secret Service & Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Kingsman 1 & 2), as well as the Hitman's Bodyguard films - they're good if you want action comedies. It's mostly story/character based but the action that does emerge is next level and episode 5 is, treated as a mini movie, one of the greatest action films I've ever seen. It is a gangster saga TV show with a good story, great acting, and it is made by Gareth Evans who directed The Raid. It has more ferocity and more elaborate choreography than the ode to it. One of the JW sequels even remade the bike sequence, and great as it is, they couldn't actually match the original in sheer chutzpah. It is so spectacular and propulsive when it moves, that the dragging of the way it chooses to dole out not very interesting plot information can be forgiven because as action, it's an absolute must see. The Villainess has a boring convoluted story, with action as genuinely innovative as it is ferocious. You will feel the character's exhaustion. By today's standards the spectacle is still top tier, teeth tightening, and crisply paced.Ītomic Blonde has a fun, convoluted story, and several all timer action scenes like a rawer John Wick. Even today, very few are doing stunts and action as flawlessly, and none as funnily. Mad Max Fury Road is well complimented by Buster Keaton's equally perfect The General (1925) with a similar "there and back again" vehicular chase structure. SPL2 is an operatic melodrama with wonderful long takes, choreography to classical music, with multinational martial arts stars. The Night Comes For Us is a martial arts movie, owing some stylings to The Raid, that goes so hard it becomes the best choreographed slasher film ever made. If you want to include action comedies, I'll never not recommend Kung-Fu Hustle or Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Surviving The Game is campy af, but also super entertaining. Blood Simple if you want to keep scratching the Coen itch, though it's not really an "action" movie. No Country for Old Men if you want a "neo Western". If you want to include westerns, I recommend Unforgiven and the 3:10 to Yuma remake. Enter The Dragon is a blatant Bond knockoff, but also undeniably entertaining. Going a little deeper, Point Blank (1967) is a precursor to the revenge movies like Wick. As bad as Steven Seagal was, Under Siege is legit entertaining because of Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones. There's the obvious stuff like Predator, Terminator 1 & 2, Matrix, Tombstone, Die Hard, and the Wick series. ![]()
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