Centurion
Action movies have convert a lot over the years . The cameras have gotten closer , the fight stage dancing more elaborate , the explosions adult , the missions more unsufferable , etc . but our requirement has n’t changed . People like watching people quetch the the pits out of people . And now it ’s become gentle than ever .
Vin Diesel looks just as convincingly immense while driving a gondola into a whirlybird on the small screen as on the large . But if you ’re look for something new and different , something you might have missed on the big screen , Netflix has you breed .
Here are 10 Underrated Action Movies Streaming on Netflix .
Centurion (2010)
Director Neil Marshall paid enraptured court to his favorite activity movies in 2008’sDoomsday , but a few years later he proved better and more watchable when listen to his own voice rather than John Carpenter ’s or Walter Hill’s . Centurion , his follow - up , is much more pleasantly business - like .
Michael Fassbender leads a small contingent of soldier turn a loss in enemy dominion in 2010’sCenturion , a plastic film that play likeLord of the Ringswith all the spill the beans trees , elves and monsters cut out of it . Olga Kurylenko play a mute warrior tasked with tracking the extant Romans down , one of the most memorable villains in recent story . Centurionis all momentum , running and fighting and glowering and Marshall is so good at filming all three thing that you never languish for more .
Headhunters (2011)
Jo Nesbø , touted by some as the inheritor toGirl With the Dragon Tattoo - scribe Stieg Larsson on the toilet of internationally popular Scandinavian mystery , threw down a vocation carte in the form ofHeadhunters , a wild book about shortened - throat corporatism . Norwegian Morten Tyldum , later the director of the extremely - gas but inferiorThe Imitation Game , tried his hand at turning Nesbø ’s voluminous thriller into cinema and come through inasmuch as his film ofHeadhunterstakes a hard left turning into crazy and never veers back onto the route .
Aksel Hennie play a recruiter who like to steal art from potential candidates . He pick the wrong bozo in Nikolaj Coster - Waldau ’s Clas Greve , a former special force operative . When Hennie goes through with his looting , he initiates a virulent game of true cat - and - mouse that involves earth-closet , utter animals , tractors , adultery and lots of collateral damage . Headhuntersmay not have won the awards thatThe Imitation Gamedid , but it ’s gaga fun and remains the highest gross Norse film of all time .
The Guest (2014)
Dan Stevens decided to exuviate hisDownton Abbeydo - gooder sheen in manner when he agreed to star in Adam Wingard’sThe Guest . A semi - remaking of the fad filmDeathdream , Stevens hold on at the firm of a midwestern folk , claiming to be a friend of their deceased Iraq War stager son .
The menage is charmed by Stevens ( who would n’t be ) and let him stay , but something is ever so slightly off about him . It ’s in the way he asterisk into space like Malcolm McDowell inA Clockwork Orange , the way he starts murdering whoever he disagrees with , the way he has some kind of perverse design on the family ’s teenage daughter ( Maika Monroe ) . When some regime agent show up looking to take him in , that just makes him demented .
The Guesthas atmosphere to burn but it never blank out that it ’s here to shock , thrill , scare and entertain the hell out of you . add up for Dan Steven ’s brilliant performance , stay for the fireworks .
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
In Quentin Tarantino’sDeath Proof , several car chase films are name - dropped , but none more importantly thanDirty Mary , Crazy Larry , thene plus ultraof the musical style . Larry and Deke ( Peter Fonda and Adam Roarke ) soak a supermarket and have their getaway programme cinched . What they do n’t depend on is Mary ( Susan George ) stowing away in their backseat . Now they have a third political party to split the loot with and interest about as the constabulary hone in on them .
lousy Mary , Crazy Larryis basically 90 minutes of railway car pursuit , with a few scenes in between where the characters sterilize the car or wait to force it some more . It ’s an ode to the beautiful machines that take us to the speed of immortality , a film that never wants to stop driving .
13 Assassins (2010)
Takashi Miike is a film maker like no other , part cinephile philosopher , part sadistic scientist run experiment on his consultation . When he require you to be sickened and confounded ( as inGozuandIchi The Killer ) , he reach certain you feel the need to shower down and call someone immediately to tell them of the blighted actions you saw performed by human existence . When he wants you to spellbind your chair , jump up and down and scream at the screen because you ’re get a full time , that ’s just what you ’re going to do .
Miike ’s 2010 remake of Eichi Kuudo’s13 Assassinsis , quite simply , the gravid action film of the modern era , and the superlative samurai film in over 40 years . When a move back warrior is ask by a citizens committee of concerned citizen to kill a derange lord , he recruits the most skilled fighters he knows and specify him a baneful trap . To say more would be to fuck up the fun .
The Hunter (2011)
Willem Dafoe survive on a trip inside the philia of darkness inThe Hunter . hire to find a miraculously not - extinct Tazmanian Tiger , Dafoe ’s illegal big game poacher takes off for a outside jungle townspeople hostile to outsiders . He lies to a mob he squats with and becomes friendly with them , jeopardise to distract him from his lucrative but mortal mission .
Dafoe , whose facial expression has haunted some of the good literary genre films of all time , is the perfect match for the stark landscape he scours , looking for both the tiger and his own limitation . The Hunterhas the bleakness one expects from Australian cinema but the lean and virile pacing of an American thriller . You will get word not to trust anything in the vastness ofThe Hunter’streacherous universe .
The Hunted (2003)
FromThe HuntertoThe Huntedas L.T. Bonham ( a grizzled Tommy Lee Jones ) is called out of retreat ( a popular base in American action films ) to chase after AWOL US Army Sergeant First Class Aaron Hallam ( Benicio Del Toro ) . Bonham used to discipline special military force to be invisible , unstoppable putting to death political machine , and Hallam , his protege , has fit rogue after being forced to kill one too many impeccant people .
Jones and Del Toro , both men of few language and weathered , forceful charisma , are mesmerizing as admirer who do n’t want to be adversaries but have no choice . William Friedkin , director ofThe French Connection , has a perfect idea of how to frame , cut and degree action sequence that remained entire from his ' 70 heyday , makingThe Hunteda tense viewpoint - off told in tongue fight , elevator car chases and gunplay . One of Friedkin ’s estimable , but least seen .
Drug War (2013)
Director Johnny To has been realise excellent study for days without mainstream acceptance , cranking out one unloved far-out musical style film after another . Drug Warlooked like it might have been his US find ( his latest , Office , had a small-scale manifold run in the states ) but even if To never becomes the household name like , say , fellow countryman John Woo , he ’ll never stop blaze a trail of his own making .
Drug Waris one of his serious and most exciting films , though it ’s also one of the most exciting films of the last ten years , full stop . Showing the privileged working of a Chinese drug task force using a captured witness as their way into a combine , To ’s edit is sleaker and faster than a hobo camp African tea . end with the good gunfight in a dog ’s age , Drug Waris dark , miserly and flat out amazing .
The Seven-Ups (1973)
Producer Phil D’Antoni was responsible forBullittandThe Gallic Connection , but only ever directed one pic , The Seven - Ups , a semi - continuation to the latter picture show , written by former pig Sonny Grosso .
Roy Scheider plays the head of a team of misfit cops who recreate as dingy as their quarry . When one of the crew is gunned down , Scheider and co. get serious . The motion picture is best remembered for its jaw - dropping centrepiece , a car pursuit across New York . D’Antoni designed one of the greatest high speed chases in story , micturate certain he ’d never have to channelize anything ever again . Scheider , ashen knuckling a Pontiac across grubby ' seventy New York , is the stuff of legal action moving-picture show legend while Grosso ’s history keep its theatrics grounded .
The Man From Nowhere (2010)
Lee Jung - beom’sThe Man From Nowherewas relatively unheralded when it was released in 2010 , but it ’s made monumental rippling . Look for it ’s influence in bothThe Raid 2andJohn Wick , both about military man ( in dark clothes ) with wispy past cut their way through a deplorable army . Neither hasThe Man From Nowhere’sfocus or purity of vision .
The Man From Nowhereconcerns a man with no name who spring into legal action to protect a child being held by unpitying , eccentric mobster for crimes her mother charge . The scrap choreography is flawless , the filmmaking vivid and the script just funny enough to make you forget how unremittingly joyless the material is .
The Man From Nowhereis more trial impression that no one is make more joyfully derange action , crime , repulsion and everything in between than the South Koreans .
