Ultimate Action Movies

From all the movies I saw I created a category that I called Ulimate Action Movies. These movies are not just any action movies. For me they epitomize action, so without further a do and hoping this thread does not get merged with action movie threads, I present the following list and hope to hear what you consider ultimate action movies:
American Yakuza
Above The Law ( Segal )
Across 110th Street
Angel Of Evil
Assault On Precinct 13 ( Ethan Hawke )
Assassination Games ( Van Damme )
Blood Out ( Vinnie Jones )
Boondock Saints
Bonnie And Clyde
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Bourne Ultimatum
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Brooklyn's Finest
B- 13
The Chase ( Brando , Redford )
Charlie Warrick
City Of Industry
City Of Men
The Code
Colombiana
Con Air
Cop Land
Crimson rivers 1 and 2
Die Hard 1-4
Dark Blue
Dead Bang
Death Sentence
The Departed
Dirty ( Cuba Gooding Jnr. )
Dirty Harry 1-5
Dog Eat Dog
Domino
Eagle Eye
Edge Of Darkness
Elite Squad
Enemy Of The State
Eastern Promises
Escape From New York ( Kurt russel )
Excessive Force
Extreme Prejudice
Face/Off
Fast And Furious (1, 3, 4,5 )
Faster
Fort Apachi The Bronx ( Paul Newman )
48 Hours 1, 2
French Connection 1, 2
From Paris With Love
15 Minutes
Firestorm
Four Brothers
44 Minutes
The Getaway (Alec Baldwyn)
The Getaway (Steve McQuin )
Ghost Dog
Grind House: Death Proof, Planet Terror
Hard Target ( Van Damme )
Hard Times ( Charles Bronson )
Hard To Kill ( Segal )
Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man
Heat ( Burt Reynolds )
Heat ( De Nero )
Heaven's Prisoners
Heist
The Hord
A History Of Violence
Hitman
Hostage (Bruce Willis )
The Hunted (Benicio Del Torro )
Inside Out
Internal Affairs ( Richard Gere )
Into The Sun Segal )
In Too Deep
Jackal
Johnny Handsome
Kill Bill
Kill Shot
Killer ( Chu Yan Fat )
Kill The Irishman
Killer Elite ( Caan, Duval )
Killer Elite ( DeNero )
La Famme Nikita
The Last Boyscout
The Last Marshall
The Laughing Policeman ( Walther Mathau )
Law Abiding Citizen
Legionaire ( Van Damme )
Leon: The Professional
Lethal Weapon 1-4
Lionheart ( Van Damme )
Loaded
Lucky Slevin
A Man Apart
Man On Fire
Marked For Death ( Segal )
The Marine
Maximum Risk ( Van Damme )
Mesrine 1, 2
Miami Vice
Mission Impossible 1, 2, 3
Narc
Natural Born Killers
Navy Seals
No Mercy
Nowhere To Run ( Van Damme )
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
One Man's Justice
One Tough Cop
007 ( All Of Them )
The Outfit ( Robert Duvall )
Out For Justice ( Segal )
The Package
Payback
Phoenix
Pit Fighter
Point Break
Point Of No return
Prayer For the Dying
Pride And Glory
Pulp Fiction
The Punisher
Raindeer Games
Revenge
Road To Perdition
The Rock
Rockaway
Rush
Saint
Running Scared
Rundown
Salt
Scarface ( Al Pacino )
Scarred City
Score
Shaft ( Samuel L. Jackson )
Shooting Gallery
Sin City
Sinners And Saints
16 Blocks
Smoking Aces 1 and 2
The Sorcerer ( Roy Sheider )
The Russian Specialist
Speed
Spy Game ( Redford )
State Of Grace
Steal
Stick Up
Stone Cold
Street Kings 1, 2
Sword Fish
Taken
The Taking Of Pelham 123
The Taking Of Pelham 123 ( Denzel Washington )
Taxi Driver
Things To Do In Denver
To Live And Die In LA
The Town
Training Day
XXX
300 Miles To Graceland
12 Rounds
Ulterior Motives
The Untouchables
US Marshalls
Walking Tall ( Joe Don Baker
Walking Tall ( Dwayne Johnson
Waist Deep
Wake Of Death ( Van Damme )
Wanted Wanted Dead Or Alive
We Own The Night ( Mark Wallberg )

I tried to stick with mostly American movies, throwing in an occassional foreign movie. Some of the movies mentioned could croos into another category. It would be impossible for me to compile an all inclusive list so I stuck to my basic list. Whatever you consider an ulltimate action movie is fine with me and can be foreign to be inclusive, so feel free to add.

How could I forget to list City Of God? Come on guys ( or girls ) surprise me!

An obvious addition would be Hard Boiled

Lists like that make my brain hurt. Can't we just narrow it down to about 20 or so? My ADD won't let me read all those titles. I swear, I even tried.

At least Die Hard and Lethal Weapon are on there, though I wouldn't go so far as to say that the 4th of either of those should be included. Yuck.

Did you not see Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol? I hear from lots of sources that it's the best one or second best at least.

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Yes, thank you for oppening that door. Love John Woo's action, which brings to mind:
A Better Tomorrow I and II, although I must admit that I was more impressed by the Korean re-make.
And Chow Yun Fat did go on to make a few movies in the US: The Replacement Killers
The Corruptor
Bulletproof Monk

It's been a while since I have seen it but I think that B-13 Ultimatum had more action then the first.

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Agreed.

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Umm...no Ong-Bak?!?!?!?!

Believe me, I hate the long lists,too. I'm the one making them.
And doing so mostly beacuse I feel that there might be just a few movies someone from that list has not seen, so if they do see them as a result of my mentioning them, I feel it's a worthwhile contribution.

I have not seen Ghost Protocol and I'm looking forward to it. It's in my unseen movie area and that is roughly about 10% of my total library.
I'm never out of movies to watch, but do have internal war all the time as to what will I watch now, no matter what mood I'm in.

I think Drive Angry should be on that list, the movie blew me away I mean from watching the trailer you would have no idea what the movie is really about and how great it is for all the gore and violence.

Oh yeah and I refuse to watch anything with Segal in it, if that makes me a bad person then so be it.

I tried to stay away from the strict martial arts stuff, since many would label it as such category but yeah it qualifies as action.
Ong Bak 2 would be my vavorite in the sceries bur if you realy want to see some interesting costume, choreography and cinematagrophy, I highly reccomend Bangra Jan, which you could probably put in Thai war action.

P.S. Over the last decade, Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone have really taken an interest in the Asian movie market and are arranging co-distribution for the States so now Americans have access to movies that they would never see unless they went to those specific countries and even then, they would have to watch it in native language, without subtitles.

Thanks. I will check Drive Angry. What's with you and Segal? His first few movies were as good action as you would ever see ( Out For Justice will absolutely blow you away ).

I preferred the original. It was more compact and focused and the story line was better. But, that's just me.

The Long Kiss Goodnight
Terminator 2
Aliens
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Face/Off
Kung Fu Hustle
Kiss of the Dragon
Black Mask
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Speed
Rush Hour
Legend of Drunken Master
Lethal Weapon
The Big Hit
The Matrix
Kill Bill
Desperado
Equilibrium
V for Vendetta
The Dark Knight
Tomb Raider
Hellboy 2
Smokin Aces
Blade 2
The Rundown
Blind Fury
Shoot Em Up
Sudden Death
Hollow Point

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Thanks for the effort. I have all that. Blind Fury is with Rutger Hauer ( makes me think him wit Stalone in another movie, where he plays a terrorist)
Stand corrected, haven't seen Hollow point and I love Thomas Ian Griffith - Excessive Force, Ulterior Motives.

I'm with akatemple on Drive Angry, silly but fun over the top action.

Some others that are good and that I like that fall under Action or a hybrid like Action/Sci-Fi:


The Nest



^ Some excellent action sequences in this film, especially towards the end.





^ Exciting film from South Korea, and if you like this, try the more mellow:



A French film starring Vincent Cassel, I believe he is taking up the role again for a sequel:



More on the Thriller side:


Point Break

Have to have this sci-fi/action neo noir on the list:



and same for:



Yet to see the 4th film, but so far I've only liked the third out of the series, brilliant:

Point Blanck, The Tube, The Nest and Exiled I have, as well as the rest.
I'm not a big fan of Johnny To's direction and the start of Exiled was just too slow and I couldn't get into it but I'll give it another look.
Thanks for the Dobermann. That looks like my cup of tea.

Hanna is in my recently seen batch of movies so I haven't yet categorized it so I forgot to list it. Loved that movie. Saoirse Ronan, the sky's the limit. She will be a super star.