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welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
action movies you forgot were awesome
for this list we'll be looking at the
badass flicks that have been unfairly
overlooked
please note we'll be leaving out martial
arts films because they deserve a list
of their own
is there another action-packed movie you
wish got more attention
let us know in the comments now on to
the top 10.
number 10 310 to yuma a decade before he
made the definitive wolverine movie with
logan
james mangold got batman together with
superman's dad for a bit of good
old-fashioned gun slinging
russell crowe is a dangerous outlaw who
lawmakers will pay good money to see
brought to justice
christian bale is a rancher too poor to
say no to a payday no matter how
dangerous the assignment
and in an old west setting where
everyone has a score to settle and a gun
to settle it with
their journey is far from easy
like a lot of modern westerns it didn't
really get the attention it deserved but
thanks to two magnetic leads and
six shooters of plenty 310 to yuma is a
fantastic throwback to a bygone era
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number 9 the man from uncle another
modern take on old school
action the man from uncle is a cold war
caper about a pair of elite spies from
either side of the divide who
are forced to work together he said
don't kill your partner on your first
day
i know what he said what does it mean
of course when agents the size of henry
cavill and armie hammer butt heads
they're liable to level entire city
blocks and the two
end up crashing their way through italy
so it's no trouble unless you continue
to question my actions so you've
actually thought this through
would you like to finish what we started
even when they aren't throwing haymakers
at each other
the constant bickering and
one-upsmanship between this herculean
odd couple
makes the man from uncle an absolute
riot and with a supporting cast that
includes alicia vikander
elizabeth debicki jared harris and hugh
grant
this is well worth seeking out but i've
um spoken to your superiors and now that
we're all such good friends they've
kindly agreed to let me
keep the team together for a while we
leave in an
hour where are we going number eight fx
the action genre is overflowing with
tropes and cliches but that creates
plenty of room for meta movies like
fx to turn the whole thing on its head
how was i
you're great nobody dies like you roland
tyler is a special effects expert
stuck plying his trade on low budget
gore fests
everything changes however when the
justice department offers him a fat
stack of cash to help stage the
assassination of a mob informant
so he can disappear into witness
protection just think about it
just think about it please however after
a sneaky double-cross
tyler finds himself in the middle of his
very own b-movie where the bullets in
the blood are far
too real
widely praised by critics for its smart
take on the genre
fx never quite seemed to find the
audience it deserved
number seven haywire steven soderbergh
has pretty much proven that he can make
a stone cold classic
in any genre from heartwarming tales
about male strippers
to eerily accurate pandemic predictions
and basketball-centric sports dramas
shot entirely on iphone
so when he decides to make a
no-holds-barred action flick
you know it's going to be good
mma star gina carano brings her
bone-breaking talents to this tale of a
former black ops agent on a bloody quest
for revenge
how a film that sees carano ragdolling
the likes of channing tatum ewan
mcgregor and michael fassbender
didn't become a smash hit we'll never
understand still
it's one of the slickest action
thrillers in recent years
number six shoot em up action cinema
like all of cinema is in a constant
conversation with itself as newer movies
reuse remix and subvert those that came
before
while watching john woo's seminal action
thriller hard-boiled
michael davis was so struck by a scene
in which the hero takes part in a gun
battle while protecting a baby
that he decided to build a whole new
film around it the result sees clive
owen's badass drifter teaming up with
monica bellucci's prostitute with the
heart of gold
to protect a little one from a crew of
assassins and henchmen
led by paul giamatti it's amped up all
action style divided critics at the time
and saw it struggle at the box office
but fans of wu's over-the-top gung-fu
stylings would be remiss
not to check it out i am dead
that part of it you go right number five
the rundown
back in 2003 dwayne johnson was still
trying to crack hollywood with movies
like the rundown which saw him playing a
bounty hunter who travels to brazil for
one last job
using johnson's wwe days to full effect
the rundown boasts some truly
bone-crunching fight scenes while
offering an early indication of the
comedy chops and charisma
that would one day make him pure box
office gold
thunder lightning ears
sadly that wasn't the case in 2003 and
the film failed to recoup its budget
but it's a fun jungle romp that is even
more interesting in retrospect
number four smoking aces like horror
films the great thing about action
movies is that their casts are often a
fascinating grab bag of up-and-comers
ailing stars a-listers and non-actors
smoking aces is one of the best examples
of this bringing together
all stars like ray liotta ben affleck
chris pine and ryan reynolds
along with the likes of common and
alicia keys for a good old-fashioned
bounty hunt
bond on buddy israel expires in 18 hours
at this
jump bowl who posted the bond same guys
who hired me
former law firm walked out the door
after he made bail as we see
an informant with a one million dollar
price on his head and a whole bunch of
folks on his trail
that's all the plot the movie really
needs to set up a thrilling series of
high octane collisions
worth checking out for the cast alone
doubly so for all the fun they have
trying to murder each other
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number three cliffhanger when you've
already got one of the most beloved
action franchises of all time to your
name it's easy to imagine how your other
efforts might get overlooked
but though it may not have been a
titanic franchise like rocky or rambo
sly stallone's cliffhanger still has an
awful lot to recommend it
this includes a zany rock climbing
related heist plan
john lithgow playing a psychotic british
crime boss
and some great set pieces from action
maestro renny harlan
who brought those same talents to the
long kiss goodnight a few years later
the whole film is a goofy blast and
stallone's star power at the time was
enough to make it a commercial hit
but it seems to have been somewhat
forgotten since remember
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number two last action hero you want to
be a farmer
here's a couple of acres
like fx but a bit more family friendly
last action hero uses the unwritten
rules tropes and cliches of action
cinema to provide a clever
deconstruction of the genre
while also serving up plenty of
explosive action
when a young boy is sucked into an
arnold schwarzenegger movie the
muscle-bound super cop
is the only one that can save him holy
cow
i'm in the movie
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essentially a schwarzenegger movie about
schwarzenegger movies
last action hero is able to skewer the
silliest aspects of 80s action cinema
while also acting as a heartfelt tribute
to it
if god was a villain
he'd be me it failed to land with
critics or audiences at the time
but has been undergoing a steady
re-evaluation in the years since
no secret for you
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few other action-packed honorable
mentions
red cliff aka chibi an epic reminder
that john woo
is still one of the greatest action
filmmakers
ever
rolling thunder a bleak bloody story
about a vietnam vets eventful return
home
ricochet a criminal tale of revenge that
goes
to some shockingly dark places this is
no fun
that's better city on fire chow yun fat
became a star with this undercover
thriller
the gray liam neeson fighting wolves
that's
it that's the movie
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number one edge of tomorrow groundhog
day is a classic movie in which bill
murray relives the same day
over and over and slowly learns to
better himself
but you know what groundhog day didn't
have giant mech suits fighting weird
squid-like aliens in a battle for
humanity's survival
that's what
fortunately edge of tomorrow is here to
correct that oversight
tom cruise plays a hapless media
relations professional who finds himself
on the front lines alongside an iconic
super soldier-like officer played by
emily blunt
i'm sorry i'm trying to save you we're
getting slaughtered you need to get us
off this beach
each time cruz dies the day resets
giving the pair plenty of chances to
work out a way of ending the war
with some stunning battle sequences that
mix world war ii
iconography with sci-fi weaponry edge of
tomorrow is one of the best
action movies of the last decade
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