Top 250 2024

We are back with a new Top 250* of the greatest action movies of all time after ten years.
*Technically a Top 253 because of a 5-way tie at 249.

13 discord members gave a total of 4252 votes on the 531 movies that were nominated. The minimum amount of votes required for a movie to be qualified was 4.

All the movies have links embedded to their respective letterboxd pages so you can read up on them some more and add them to your watchlist.

Or you can check out the full list on letterboxd here.

Other movies to consider adding to your watchlist while you’re at it are these highscoring movies that were one vote removed from meeting the minimum number of votes requirement:
Battles Without Honor And Humanity: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973, Kinji Fukasaku)
Knights (1993, Albert Pyun)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy)
Superfights (1995, Tony Leung Siu-Hung)
Vengeance! (1970, Chang Cheh)

27 of the movies on the list have been released after the previous list came out. It’s only fitting that one of the movies to kick us off is the most recently released entry. *Tied movies are listed alphabetically.

253-249 [7.571429]

The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938, Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)
Bad Boys: Ride Or Die (2024, Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah)
Chocolate (2008, Prachya Pinkaew)
The Getaway (1972, Sam Peckinpah)
Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky (1991, Lam Nai-Choi)

248 [7.583333]

Team America: World Police (2004, Trey Parker)

247-244 [7.6]

Action Jackson (1988, Craig R. Baxley)
The Fugitive (1993, Andrew Davis)
The Living Daylights (1987, John Glen)
The Mercenary (1968, Sergio Corbucci)

243-241 [7.625]

Lone Wolf And Cub: Sword Of Vengeance (1972, Kenji Misumi)
Police Story 4: First Strike (1996, Stanley Tong)
Triple Threat (2019, Jesse V. Johnson)

240-238 [7.636364]

Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg)
The Protector [Tom Yum Goong] (2005, Prachya Pinkaew)

237-231 [7.666667]

Avatar (2009, James Cameron)
Extraction (2020, Sam Hargrave)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, Brad Bird)
Mission: Impossible II (2000, John Woo)
Nemesis (1992, Albert Pyun)
Spartan (2004, David Mamet)
Zulu (1964, Cy Endfield)

230-229 [7.692308]

The Avengers (2012, Joss Whedon)
Crank: High Voltage (2009, Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)

228-226 [7.7]

Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear (2013, Isaac FLorentine)
Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)
The Suicide Squad (2021, James Gunn)

225-218 [7.714286]

Dillinger (1973, John Milius)
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008, Kim Jee-Woon)
Iron Angels [Angel] (1987, Teresa Woo)
Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart In Peril (1972, Buichi Saitõ)
Miami Connection (1987, Y. K. Kim & Richard Park Wu-Sang)
No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987, Corey Yuen)
Three Kings (1999, David O. Russell)
Versus (2000, Ryûhei Kitamura)

217-215 [7.727273]

Army Of Darkness (1992, Sam Raimi)
Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Taratino)
Escape From New York (1981, John Carpenter)

214-205 [7.75]

Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973, Kinji Fukasaku)
Enter The Eagles [And Now You’re Dead] (1998, Corey Yuen)
Exit Speed (2008, Scott Ziehl)
The Expendables 2 (2012, Simon West)
The Man From Hong Kong (1975, Brian Trenchard-Smith)
Parole Violators (1994, Patrick G. Donahue)
Project A (1983, Jackie Chan)
Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964, Hideo Gosha)
Violent Cop (1989, Takeshi Kitano)

204 [7.769231]

Taken (2008, Pierre Morel)

203-198 [7.777778]

Extraction 2 (2023, Sam Hargrave)
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (2011, Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine)
Hardcore Henry (2015, Ilya Naishuller)
Logan (2017, James Mangold)
Stone Cold (1991, Craig R. Baxley)
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009, John Hyams)

197-187 [7.8]

1917 (2019, Sam Mendes)
Assault On Precinct 13 (1976, John Carpenter)
Drug War (2012, Johnnie To)
Five Fingers Of Death [King Boxer] (1972, Jeong Chang-Hwa)
The Hitcher (1986, Robert Harmon)
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998, Richard Donner)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood)
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves (1991, Kevin Reynolds)
Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973, Bo Arne Vibenius)
Walking Tall (1973, Phil Karlson)
Zatoichi The Fugitive (1963, Tokuzõ Tanaka)

186-184 [7.818182]

Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990, Renny Harlin)
Ong-Bak (2003, Prachya Pinkaew)
Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow)

183-175 [7.833333]

Dead Heat (1988, Mark Goldblatt)
Demolition Man (1993, Marco Brambilla)
El Topo (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Exiled (2006, Johnnie To)
The Exterminator (1980, James Glickenhaus)
Fearless (2006, Ronny Yu)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, George Miller)
Royal Warriors (1986, David Chung)
Sister Street Fighter (1974, Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)

174-172 [7.846154]

Bad Boys II (2003, Michael Bay)
Batman (1989, Tim Burton)
Predator 2 (1990, Stephen Hopkins)

171-169 [7.857143]

A Bittersweet Life (2005, Kim Jee-Woon)
Revenge Of The Ninja (1983, Sam Firstenberg)
Superman II (1980/2006, Richard Lester/Richard Donner)

168-166 [7.875]

The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)
Road House (1989, Rowdy Herrington)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, Steve Barron)

165-162 [7.888889]

Battle Royale (2000, Kinji Fukasaku)
Day Of The Dead (1985, George A. Romero)
High Plains Drifter (1973, Clint Eastwood)
The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent)

161-155 [7.9]

Bloodsport (1988, Newt Arnold)
The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023, Christopher McQuarrie)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016, Gareth Edwards)
Showdown In Little Tokyo (1991, Mark L. Lester)
The Street Fighter (1974, Shigehiro Ozawa)

154-152 [7.909091]

Black Dynamite (2009, Scott Sanders)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969, Peter R. Hunt)
V For Vendetta (2005, James McTeigue)

151-150 [7.916667]

The Crow (1994, Alex Proyas)
Safe (2012, Boaz Yakin)

149-147 [7.923077]

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017, Chad Stahelski)

Nobody (2021, Ilya Naishuller)
Rambo III (1988, Peter MacDonald)

146-110 [8]

Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Avatar: The Way Of Water (2022, James Cameron)
Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993, Bruce Timm & Eric Radomski)
Big Trouble In Little China (1986, John Carpenter)
Braindead [Dead Alive] (1992, Peter Jackson)
Brother (2000, Takeshi Kitano)
Carlito’s Way (1993, Brian De Palma)
Den Of Thieves (2018, Christian Gudegast)
Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995, John McTiernan)
Fast Five (2011, Justin Lin)
Glory (1989, Edward Zwick)
Hot Shot! Part Deux (1993, Jim Abrahams)
The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird)
Jawan (2023, Atlee)
Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)
Keoma (1976, Enzo G. Castellari)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Stephen Chow)
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996, Renny Harlin)
The Longest Day (1962, Ken Annakin & Bernhard Wicki & Andrew Marton & Gerd Oswald & Darryl F. Zanuck)
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003, Gore Verbinski)
Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992, Stanley Tong)
Raising Arizona (1987, Joel Coen)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985, George P. Cosmatos)
Rapid Fire (1992, Dwight H. Little)
Red Cliff (2008-2009, John Woo)
Sanjuro (1962, Akira Kurosawa)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg)
Speed (1994, Jan De Bont)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith (2005, George Lucas)
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023, Jeff Rowe)
Thief (1981, Michael Mann)
Tombstone (1993, George P. Cosmatos)
Undisputed III: Redemption (2010, Isaac FLorentine)
Vera Cruz (1954, Robert Aldrich)
Wheels On Meals (1984, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo)
The Wind And The Lion (1975, John Milius)

109-106 [8.083333]

Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell)
Desperado (1995, Robert Rodriguez)
Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel)
Dredd (2012, Pete Travis)

105-103 [8.090909]

Face/Off (1997, John Woo)
Marked For Death (1990, Dwight H. Little)
On Deadly Ground (1994, Steven Seagal)

102 [8.1]

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003, Peter Jackson)

101-100 [8.111111]

The Mask Of Zorro (1998, Martin Campbell)
The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black)

99 [8.125]

The Warriors (1979, Walter Hill)

98-97 [8.142857]

In The Line Of Duty 3 (1988, Arthur Wong & Brandy Yuen)
Millionaires’ Express [Shanghai Express] (1986, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo)

96-93 [8.153846]

First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff)
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)
Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
Skyfall (2012. Sam Mendes)

92-90 [8.166667]

Death Wish 3 (1985, Michael Winner)
High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
In The Line Of Duty 4 (1989, Yuen Woo-Ping)

89-88 [8.181818]

Out For Justice (1991, John Flynn)
Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning (2012, John Hyams)

87-82 [8.2]

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004, Ryûhei Kitamura)
Licence To Kill (1989, John Glen)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002, Peter Jackson)
Rough Riders (1997, John Milius)
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982, Nicholas Meyer)
Surviving Edged Weapons (1988, Dennis Anderson)

81-80 [8.222222]

Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski)
Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa)

79-78 [8.230769]

John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski)
The Raid 2 (2014, Gareth Evans)

77-66 [8.25]

A Fistful Of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone)
Akira (1988, Katsuhiro Otomo)
Born To Fight (2004, Panna Rittikrai)
Extreme Prejudice (1987, Walter Hill)
GoldenEye (1995, Martin Campbell)
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018, Christopher McQuarrie)
The Mummy (1999, Stephen Sommers)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End Of Evangelion (1997, Kazuya Tsurumaki & Hideaki Anno)
Righting Wrongs [Above The Law] (1986, Corey Yuen)
Compañeros [Vamos A Matar, Compañeros] (1970, Sergio Corbucci)
War (2019, Siddharth Anand)

65 [8.272727]

Blade (1998, Stephen Norrington)

64-62 [8.285714]

Kingdom Of Heaven (2005, Ridley Scott)
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson & Joaquim Dos Santos)
SPL: Kill Zone (2005, Wilson Yip)