Greatest Action Movies

The greatest action movies of all time keep you at the edge of the seat. Your heart keeps racing and an adrenaline rush pumps up and down your blood stream. You cannot move your eyes off the screen even for a minute, while watching some of the greatest action movies ever made in Hollywood.

So what is that catches your eye in these greatest action movies? It is the element of action, that captivates your mind and gives your imagination an all new high. The action packed world where good always overcomes evil is a tempting plot, even though it has been played over and over again in every movie.

Arnie's 'I'll be back', resonates your mind even though you must have watched Terminator over a hundred times. Or maybe, put yourself in the shoes of Matt Damon and imagined yourself as the amnesiac agent who is begin hunted down by his superiors. The greatest action movies of all time are so intense and dynamic that one is addicted for more. You wish you could be there to help Keanu Reeves when the bus is out of control and get the bomb diffused.

The strong story lines, the realistic characters, the heart pounding background score and the mind blowing action sequences keep the pulse on a high mode. Most of the best action movies of all time have a hero who has lost a love one to the bad guys bullet or its about a cop who is avenging his partner's death. Many times he is the only man who can save the city from the gun welding gangsters or maybe a virus that can cause a pandemic leading to human death.

A different plot on the same lines was seen in the movie 'I am Legend'. Will Smith plays an army doctor who is immune to a virus infecting humans making them total animal like savages. He spends months living alone in city cordoned off to human settlement. This and many such movies have a story line that weaves you into its action packed magic. This is what makes an action movie one of the great action movies. The following list of greatest action movies will help you find some of the best movies that you should rent for an action packed weekend. Find out more information from our movie reviews.

Greatest Action Movies Ever Made
•Black Hawk Down
•Enemy At The Gates
•The Terminator
•Batman Begins
•Blade Runner'
•First Blood
•Gladiator
•Lethal Weapon
•The Dark Knight
•The Great Escape
•Hard Boiled
•Goldfinger
•The Bourne Ultimatum
•Kill Bill: Vol 1
•Speed
•Die Hard
•Matrix
•The Killer
•The Professional
•Ronin
•Desperado
•Mission: Impossible
Greatest Action Movies of All Time
•Enter the Dragon
•The Killer
•Spider-Man 1
•Spider-Man 2
•Casino Royale
•Seven Samurai
•Iron Man
•The Bourne Supremacy
•The Bourne Identity
•Rambo First Blood
•Mission Impossible II
•Terminator 2: Judgment Day
•Rumble in the Bronx
•Tomorrow Never Dies
•The World is Not Enough
•Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
•The Wild Bunch
•Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
•Saving Private Ryan
•Behind Enemy Lines
•The Hurt Locker
•Brave Heart
•300
•Ben-Hur
•Inglorious Bastards
•Raiders of the Lost Ark
•Apocalypse Now
•The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
•The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
•The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
•Commando
•The Road Warrior
•Max
•True Lies
•Con Air
•Face Off
•Aliens
•Independence Day
•Minority Report
•Clear and Present Danger
•Akira
•Hard to Kill
•The Delta Force
•Ong-Bak
•Death Wish
•The Rock
•The Long Kiss Goodnight
•Hard Rain
•Raging Bull
•Taken
•Oldboy
•Blade
•Crank
•Bad Boys
•Tango and Cash
•The Great Escape
•Transformer: 1, 2, 3
•The Last of the Mohicans
•The Incredibles
•I Am Legend
•I Robot
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These are just a few of the mentionable greatest action movies. The injustice melted out by the villains, one man standing up for what is right and after a lot of bloodshed he manages to save the world are the ingredients to make the greatest action movies. These were some of the greatest action movies ever made that will surely make your weekend full of thrills and punches.