The 100 best action movies: film critics and experts, M-Z
The world’s leading action stars, directors and critics pick the best action movies ever, including martial-arts movies, explosive stunts and the best action thrillers
How did we choose the 100 best action movies of all time? We went straight to the experts and polled people who have created some of the greatest action films ever made. We asked each of them for their ten favorite action movies. From there we calculated the top 100 overall best action movies. Here, you'll find the personal selections of film critics and experts including Outlaw Vern and Matt Singer.

Marc Walkow
- Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)
- Hard Boiled (1992)
- Lone Wolf & Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx (a.k.a. most of Shogun Assassin) (1972)
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Eastern Condors (1987)
- Dragons Forever (1988)
- Zulu (1964)
- Crazy Thunder Road (1980)
- A Bittersweet Life (2005)

Matt Prigge
- Die Hard (1988)
- Hard Boiled (1992)
- Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Seven Chances (1925)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
- Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Matt Singer
- Die Hard (1988)
- Drunken Master II (1994)
- Hard Boiled (1992)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- The Driver (1978)
- The General (1926)

Ross Chen
- Police Story (1985)
- Hard Boiled (1992)
- Pedicab Driver (1989)
- The Blade (1995)
- Peking Opera Blues (1986)
- The Mission (1999)
- Dragons Forever (1988)
- The Killer (1989)
- Yes Madam! (1985)
- The Big Heat (1987)

Tim Arthur
- Die Hard (1988)
- 300 (2006)
- Enter the Dragon (1973)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Oldboy (2003)
- The Raid: Redemption (2011)
- Police Story (1985)
- First Blood (1982)
- Mad Max (1979)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Tim Dirks
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- Aliens (1986)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Speed (1994)
- True Lies (1994)
- Face/Off (1997)
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Tom Huddleston
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1980)
- 13 Assassins (2010)
- Point Break (1991)
- Harakiri (1962)
- The Wages of Fear (1953)
- Escape from New York (1981)
- Death Race 2000 (1975)
- The Warriors (1979)
- Predator 2 (1990)