01 Reinvented what an animated superhero film could look like.
15 Best 2010s Action Movies
By Vlad Zakh · May 12, 2025
Mad Max: Fury Road redefined what a practical-effects action film could look like decades into the genre, while Avengers: Endgame closed out the biggest blockbuster experiment ever attempted.
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02 The film that made the character, and Gal Gadot, a global star.
03 A mercenary-rescue premise built around one astonishing long-take sequence.
04 A superhero send-off that plays more like a bleak Western.
05 The Bond entry that finally gave 007 real emotional stakes.
06 A messy but ambitious close to Nolan's Batman trilogy.
07 A time-loop war movie that's smarter than its marketing suggested.
08 A spy parody with genuinely great action underneath the jokes.
09 A war film told across three timelines, tense from the very first frame.
10 A getaway-driver movie choreographed entirely to its soundtrack.
11 Proved a shared cinematic universe could actually work at scale.
12 A heist movie built entirely inside layered dreams, and it still holds together.
13 Built a whole new kind of stardom for Keanu Reeves on precision and grief.
14 The payoff to a decade-long blockbuster experiment, and it mostly sticks the landing.
15 A nearly two-hour chase sequence that redefined practical action filmmaking.
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