Best Action Movies

Compiled 2026-10-24. The main table is the action-movie countdown published on 2025-12-15, all 140 films. No. 1 is George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). No. 2 is John McTiernan’s Die Hard (1988). No. 140 is Peter Hyams’s Running Scared (1986). The publish date, the archive date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The countdown

All 140 rows follow the countdown. Years and directors are copied from the guide.

How this ranking was built

Compiled 2026-10-24. Rotten Tomatoes published the countdown on 2025-12-15, and the page was modified the same day. Alex Vo wrote it. The main table is all 140 ranks. The page runs from No. 140 down to No. 1. This table runs from No. 1 to No. 140. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows. Their numbers stay as printed.

On 2026-10-24 the live page left all 140 title blocks empty. Titles, years, directors, and ranks were read from the Wayback capture of 2026-02-07. That capture still carries the publish date 2025-12-15. Ranks 8 and 46 are blank in it. The 2025-10-17 capture of the same URL matches the other 138 titles and ranks, so those two cells come from 2025-10-17: No. 8 Mission: Impossible - Fallout, 2018, Christopher McQuarrie; No. 46 Braveheart, 1995, Mel Gibson.

The page says an editor chose the films and that the Tomatometer was not a condition for getting in. This table does not copy those scores. Chinese and Russian titles are the Wikidata labels matched by the English title and year. Chinese labels are simplified. Director names stay as printed on the guide.

These ranks have no Russian Wikidata label, so the Russian cell keeps the English title: No. 69 Full Contact.

The picture, and the other movie pages

Rows S through D hold all 140 films in rank order, 28 a row. The drag-and-drop pool is the same 140.

The 2000s: 100 best movies of the 2000s. The 2010s: 100 best movies of the 2010s. The 21st century: best movies of the 21st century. IMDb voter ratings: IMDb Top 250. Each page keeps its own order.