Action Movies Bucket List

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

Linda Hamilton and Schwarzenegger back for the only sequel Cameron produced after T2, with the target now in Mexico City.

A liquid-metal T-X hunts John Connor, and Judgment Day happens anyway.

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

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

Three centuries after Caesar, a young ape and a human woman cross a coastal kingdom built in his name.

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

De Palma's heist: the wire drop into Langley and a train through the Chunnel.

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

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

Fifteen years before Fury Road, and how she lost the arm.

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

A developer moves on the school and Mike Tyson turns up as his boss; the fight in the lift is the set piece.

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

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

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

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

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

A coordinated attack shuts down American infrastructure and McClane escorts the programmer who wrote part of the code.

The Avengers split at an airport; the crossover that worked.

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

The 1984 timeline is rewritten: Sarah Connor has been raised since childhood by an ageing Terminator.

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

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

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