Wakanda, Killmonger and the first superhero film nominated for Best Picture.
Brad Pitt as a veteran driver back in Formula One, shot at real Grands Prix.
Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary hunted by Sean Penn; PTA's Pynchon action film.
Jeremy Renner as another programme agent while Bourne is elsewhere; Manila motorbike chase.
Tom Cruise back in the cockpit thirty-six years later, with real jets; the film that reopened cinemas.
A 1970s paranoid thriller inside a superhero film; the elevator fight.
Robert Downey Jr. builds a suit in a cave and the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins.
A getaway driver who times every chase to his playlist; Edgar Wright's musical heist.
A London supercop in a Gloucestershire village where accidents happen; Wright's action parody.
Aliens in a Johannesburg township; Blomkamp's apartheid allegory as documentary sci-fi.
Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk together for the first time; the Battle of New York.
Ryan Reynolds' foul-mouthed mercenary breaks the fourth wall; the R-rated superhero hit.
Gal Gadot crosses No Man's Land in 1918; the first superhero blockbuster directed by a woman.
Tom Cruise dies and repeats a D-Day against aliens; Groundhog Day as a war film.
Taika Waititi turns Thor into a comedy with a gladiator Hulk and Led Zeppelin.
Gosling's stunt driver in a scorpion jacket, synth-pop and a lift; Refn's neon LA.
Gordon-Levitt hunts his older self, Bruce Willis; Rian Johnson's time-travel noir.
A South London gang fights aliens on Bonfire Night; John Boyega's debut.
John McClane barefoot in Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve; the template for every action film after.
Burton's Gotham, Nicholson's Joker and the film that made superheroes dark.
Schwarzenegger as an unstoppable machine from 2029; "I'll be back".
Kurt Russell as a trucker in a Chinatown sorcery war; Carpenter's cult comedy.
Schwarzenegger's commandos hunted by an invisible alien in the jungle; "get to the chopper".
Liquid metal, a good Terminator and the biggest budget yet spent; the sequel that beat the original.
A dead Detroit cop rebuilt as a machine; Verhoeven's satire wrapped in an action film.
Keanu Reeves undercover with surfing bank robbers in president masks; Bigelow's action classic.
Waterloo station, a Tangier rooftop chase and the end of Treadstone.
An amnesiac assassin pulled from the sea; the spy film that made Bond change.
Schwarzenegger on Mars, a three-breasted woman and an eyeball-popping ending; Verhoeven and Philip K. Dick.
A hitman and a 12-year-old Natalie Portman in New York; Gary Oldman's "EVERYONE".
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