The 100 best action movies: film critics and experts, A-L

Ben Sin

Ben Sin is the former film editor of Time Out Hong Kong

1. Police Story (1985)
2. Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)
3. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
4. Hard Boiled (1992)
5. Exiled (2006)
6. Fist of Fury (1972)
7. Drunken Master (1978)
8. Police Story 3: Supercop (1992)
9. City on Fire (1987)
10. The Legend (a.k.a. Fong Sai-yuk) (1993)

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Cath Clarke

Cath Clarke is the deputy film editor of Time Out London

1. Police Story 
2. Seven Samurai 
3. Once Upon a Time in the West 
4. The General
5. The Wild Bunch 
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark  
7. Point Break  
8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  
9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day 
10. The Bourne Ultimatum  

Christopher Rouse

Christopher Rouse is a film editor best known for his work with Paul Greengrass on The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
3. The Wild Bunch (1969)
4. Hard Boiled (1992)
5. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
7. Raging Bull (1980)
8. From Russia with Love (1963)
9. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
10. The Dark Knight (2008)

Colin Geddes

Colin Geddes is a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival.

1. Hard Boiled (1992)
2. Project A (1983)
3. Ong-bak (2003)
4. Enter the Dragon (1973)
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
6. The Wild Bunch (1969)
7. Kill Bill (2003/2004)
8. The Great Escape (1963)
9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
10. Aliens (1986)

Dave Calhoun

Dave Calhoun is the global film editor of Time Out.

1. The General (1926)
2. The Wages of Fear (1953)
3. North by Northwest (1959)
4. From Russia with Love (1963)
5. The Wild Bunch (1969)
6. Kill Bill (2003/2004)
7. RoboCop (1987)
8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
10. “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat” (1896

Eoin Friel

Eoin Friel runs a website called the Action Elite. The site is dedicated especially to old-school films from action heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

1. Die Hard (1988)
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
3. Predator (1987)
4. RoboCop (1987)
5. Lethal Weapon (1987)
6. The Raid (2011)
7. Enter the Dragon (1973)
8. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
9. Ip Man (2008)
10. The Rock (1996)

Grady Hendrix

Grady Hendrix is a writer and co-founder of the New York Asian Film Festival, which The New York Times has called “one of the city’s most valuable cultural events.”

1. Dragons Forever (1988)
2. Full Contact (1992)
3. Bullet in the Head (1990)
4. The Blade (1995)
5. The Mission (1999)
6. Heroes of the East (a.k.a. Shaolin Challenges Ninja, 1978)
7. The Tournament (1974)
8. Nowhere to Hide (1999)
9. Aachi and Ssipak (2006)
10. Ong-bak (2003)

Harvey O’Brien

Harvey O’Brien is the author of Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back and The Real Ireland: The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film.

1. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
2. Aliens (1986)
3. The Terminator (1984)
4. Die Hard (1988)
5. The Killer (1989)
6. Enter the Dragon (1973)
7. Dirty Harry (1971)
8. Commando (1985)
9. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
10. Last Action Hero (1993)

Helen Gynell top ten (in alphabetical order)

ActionMovieFreak.com is a fan site created to promote the genre, featuring everything you love about action movies.

• Aliens (1986)
• Commando (1985)
• Die Hard (1988)
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• Predator (1987)
• Rambo III (1988)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Rock (1996) 

Joshua Rothkopf

Joshua Rothkopf is the film editor of Time Out New York

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3. Face/Off (1997)
4. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
5. The Fugitive (1993)
6. Hard Boiled (1992)
7. Enter the Dragon (1973)
8. The Wild Bunch (1969)
9. Police Story 3: Supercop (1992)
10. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)