Action Bucket List

A motorbike off a Norwegian cliff and a train falling into a ravine, carriage by carriage.

A Vietnam veteran hunted through Washington woods; the film before the sequels.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as an arms dealer, an ambush on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and a swing between Shanghai rooftops.

McClane goes to Moscow for his imprisoned son, who turns out to be CIA, and the two end up at Chernobyl.

Cruise on the outside of the Burj Khalifa, and the sandstorm chase.

A bomber calling himself Simon walks McClane and a Harlem shopkeeper through riddles while the Federal Reserve is emptied.

The Entity story ends with a dive into a sunken submarine and a fight between two biplanes.

Khan takes a starship and the Genesis device, and Spock dies in the reactor room; the film that saved the franchise.

John Woo takes over: free climbing above Utah, a stolen virus and a motorbike duel outside Sydney.

Mercenaries seize the control tower at Washington Dulles on Christmas Eve and start bringing aircraft down.

Hanging off an Airbus at take-off, and an assassination staged at the Vienna opera.

The stairs at Sacre-Coeur and a duel at dawn; three hours and worth it.

The Borg follow the Enterprise-E back to 2063 to stop Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight; the best of the Next Generation films.

A Comanche hunter against a Predator in 1719; the series at its leanest.

A surgeon learns magic and the buildings fold; Marvel's Inception.

Ip Man travels to San Francisco with a throat cancer diagnosis to find his son a school; the last of the Donnie Yen run.

Abrams recasts Kirk and Spock, and a Romulan arriving from the future splits the timeline in two.