When the President’s plane goes down behind the walls of the nation’s most dangerous, maximum-security penal colony - a.k.a. Image Credit: ©Avco Embassy /Everett Collection Taking a break from his Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur franchises, Guy Ritchie reminds you that he can put together some mean fights scenes and chase scenes - several, in fact - and make the sight of Cavill casually eating a sandwich before driving a cargo truck off a ramp and landing on top of a boat seem like the most natural thing in the world. Eventually, the three of them team up to fight a common enemy. They’re both fighting over who gets to bring Alicia Vikander, as well as her scientist dad’s plans, back to their respective bosses. Henry Cavill is Napoleon Solo, the C.I.A.’s suavest agent a pre-scandal Armie Hammer is Ilya Kuryakin, his KGB counterpart.
You don’t need to be familiar with the original 1960s spy show - the one where Robert Vaughn and David McCallum got into Bond-lite adventures (though to be fair, Ian Fleming was a creative consultant for the series) - to dig Guy Ritchie’s big-screen adaptation, which channels the era’s espionage-a-go-go style while adding a dash of Cold War grit. Image Credit: Daniel Smith/©Warner Bros/Everett Collection These are the films we go to when we want an uncut dose of that kinetic-cinema rush. Not all it-blowed-up-real-good films are created equal, however, so we’re shouting out the 50 best action movies of all time - the crème de la crème of martial arts flicks, bullet ballets, men-on-a-mission adventures, swashbucklers, superhero franchises, sci-fi spectacles, wuxia epics, and a whole lot more. And once the Age of the Blockbuster really kicks into gear in the early 1980s, you couldn’t throw a rock at a multiplex without hitting something that hyped up the “motion” into motion pictures. thrills, chills and spills, has been a main attraction of the medium for decades.
Action has been a part of the movies since the days of Keystone Kops and mustache-twirling villains tying up heroines on railroads tracks you could even argue that the Lumiere brothers’ short of a train pulling into the station, which allegedly caused audiences to scream and flee the room, was the world’s first example of an action movie. It helps, of course, if you throw in a few explosions, several car chases, some knockdown mano a mano fistfights, a smattering of kung fu and any number of swordfights as well. All you need to make a movie, a wise French man once said, is a girl and a gun.
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