The Best Action Movies of 2024 (So Far)
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Not too long ago, action movies only cared about explosions. Transformers led the box office and the Fast & Furious crew went from driving cars to becoming tactical mercenaries. No disrespect to Optimus Prime, but sometimes I just want to watch someone punch someone else n the face. Thanks to last year’s slate of action films, including Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning, Part One and John Wick: Chapter 4, the art of stunt work is making a big comeback.
So, it’s fitting that this weekend’s summer blockbuster, The Fall Guy, is an action film about a stunt double. For my money? It’s always great to get the stunt man involved. Case in point: Chad Stahelski was Keanu Reeves’s stunt double on The Matrix before he directed four amazing John Wick flicks. Until the Oscars finally add a category for Best Stunt—which they absolutely should!—let’s celebrate the movies this year (so far) that did it best.
The Fall Guy (In Theaters May 3)
Finally, some appreciation for the stuntman. Starring Ryan Gosling, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emily Blunt, and Winston Duke, The Fall Guy follows a stuntman (Gosling, of course) who inexplicably ropes himself into a conspiracy on a film set for the sci-fi movie MetalStorm.
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Monkey Man (In Theaters)
In Monkey Man, star (and first-time director!) Dev Patel creates his own John Wick-type hero, who is on a mission for revenge across India. Inspired by the tales of Hanuman, Patel's bloody and violent action flick is easily one of the best films of the year so far.
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Road House
It’s hard to top a masterpiece like Patrick Swayze’s Road House. So, Jake Gyllenhaal and co. didn’t even try to recreate the magic of the original '80s classic. Instead, the new Road House is a slugfest between a ripped Gyllenhaal and an often butt-naked Conor McGregor. What more can you ask for?
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Dune: Part Two
The sci-fi epic returns to continue the story of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a reluctant messiah in a galactic conflict over resources. With giant sandworms and Austin Butler's brilliant turn as the film's the sadistic villain, Dune: Part Two certainly lived up to the hype.
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The Beekeeper
The Beekeeper is built on an incredibly odd premise. Jason Statham plays a beekeeper who is actually part of a secret clandestine organization called the Beekeepers. Everyone in the Beekeepers isn't necessarily a beekeeper in real life, but the complexities of The Beekeeper's world-building fade away the second that Statham threatens to burn a whole building to the ground... and then does exactly that. Plus, he's surrounded by real bees.
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Boy Kills World (In Theaters)
Bill Skarsgârd sets out on a Deadpool-esque rampage of violence in Boy Kills World. The action-comedy also stars H. Jon Benjamin (Bob's Burgers), as the internal voice for our deaf-mute hero. Inspired by the art of video games and graphic novels, Boy Kills World will satisfy anyone's need for fast-paced action.
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Badland Hunters
Badland Hunters is a standalone sequel to last year's Concrete Utopia, following survivors of a zombie apocalypse as they attempt to escape post-earthquake Seoul. Produced in Korea, Badland Hunters stars Ma Dong-seok (Train to Busan) performing some of the year's best fight choreography so far.
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The Ministry of Ungentlemany Warfare (In Theaters)
It's not a hot take to say that Guy Ritchie movies are very hit or miss. Oftentimes, the problem with his films is that his eccentric characters don't really have a mission—other than driving each other crazy. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (mouthy title!)fixes all of that. Why? Because Henry Cavill, Reacher's Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding, and the rest of their ragtag bunch of soldiers are out to kill Nazis. Classic.
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