Ahh, the first list of many to come for yours truly, the jaded viewer. Actually, this is a Top 5 Action Movies I SAW in 2010. I can already hear I left out this movie and that movie. So I just had to clarify. This is all solid mainstreamy flicks that were filled with alpha male artillery shells and explosions galore.And one that had me toppling over....seriously for real (pun so intended).
Click on the title to read my full review. Well on to the list!
5.) The TournamentThe moment I saw the premise of The Tournament I was like this is an awesome idea. Throw in the poor town that has to hold a tournament of the world's best assassins and you got all hell breaks loose.
Starring Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu and other familiars you'll be rocking and rolling through this mish mosh of guns and sniping and car chases.
The assassins just don't kill each other, they fuck each other up beyond recognition. In this new age of action flicks (as Rambo illustrated beautifully) it's not just capping yr ass, it's obliterating the enemy.
The Tournament is an apex in action porn, where guns are blazing, body counts are mounting and parkour and martial arts are needed to win and be called the greatest assassin ever.
The Expendables was the most hyped up action movie of the year. The Big Three was suppose to turn every alpha male action fan into drooling idiots.
The movie wasn't perfect but it showed we can check the egos and put an all star cast of action heroes and still make a good action flick.
I mean the plot is a little contrived and Stallone a little slow but Jason Statham steals the show and is probably the air apparent of the action movie (umm he's not in any Disney movies that I know of)
Seeing Jet Li and Dolph and Stone Cold and Terry Crews reminded me of the original Predators. Just massive huge men kicking and annihilating entire countries.
Good times.
3.) MacheteThey say Danny Trejo has played a killer in 62 movies. He's played a rapist in 25 movies. And he's played a killer who is a rapist in 19 movies. Talk about being typecast.
But that's all over now for Danny Trejo. He is Machete and boy can he fuck up people badly as a good guy as he does a bad guy. Machete is mega-tastic and hits on all cylinders. As a grindhouse/exploitation film, as an action film and as a comedy. It even works as Skinemax!
It's bar none one of the best movies this year. Full of the Times Square grindyness I adore it has so many WTF moments you can't help but fuckin applaud. Robert Rodriguez takes the Tarantino formula into exteeeminess, pure of adrenaline knife slaughter, side Jessica Alba boobage and a stoned out Lindsay Lohan.
I will never think of intestines the same way again.
2.) InceptionInception is probably the best movie of the summer blockbusters. It's made like a bajillion dollars already and the critics are dry humping this movie.
Sure not your traditional "action movie" but it did have your standard heist plot colored in within dreams. Car chases, shootouts and mind tripping layers and you got an action cinema for the mind.
It's a thinking man's movie filled with ideas and layers and more layers. But at its core, Inception is original and different. So many movies these days are remakes, sequels or stories from other mediums.
Christopher Nolan wrote the story over 8 years or so and though it draws from what's been done before, it's cleverly unique. Don't call it The Matrix meets something.
I hate when critics do that.
1.) Kick-AssThis is one of the best movies of 2010.
Kick Ass kicks so much fuckin ass, I wanted to put on some spandex, fight crime and spew witty vulgarities with my 11 yr old female cousin dressed as Hit Girl. Which brings us to why Kick Ass is awesome-tastic.
It's not the titular character that blows you away (though he does have his hilarious moments) but it's Hit Girl, the potty mouth pre-pubescent tween daughter of Big Daddy (Nic Cage doing his best Adam West impersonation) that steals the show. Chloe Moretz is so fantastic as Hit Girl you sincerely believe she loves ice cream sundaes and switchblades and can assassinate an army of mafiosos with a blink of an eye.
Never has a little girl been so lethal with guns, yo yo string MacGyver devices and a blade.
Kick-Ass turned the superhero genre upside down and had fun doing it. You won't see anything like it again...until Kick-Ass 2.
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I only saw a handful of action movies this year. I did miss a few. So let me know what was your favorite action movie of 2010.
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Good list. Can't really disagree. Maybe I would put them in a different order. I didn't see Tournament. Machete was definitely one of my favorite movies I saw this year. If there are sequels to the Expendables, and Machete, hopefully they don't disgrace the good work done in the originals.
ReplyDeleteGotta see The Tournament, always meant to rent it, never did. I'll definitely check it out with this recommendation. Rest of the list rules, saw them all.
ReplyDeleteInception over Kick-Ass, by far.
ReplyDeleteAt best we'll get a straight to video Kick-Ass 2. The film did break even in theaters, but nothing special. Kinda sad to think that $40 million at the box office is weak.
ReplyDeleteIts a decent argument to have Inception over Kick Ass but I kinda liked the anti comic book, comic book movie Kick Ass made.
ReplyDeleteAs far As Inception goes, you know its good, I don't have to buy an entire airlines to tell you its awesome.
right on. good list.
ReplyDeleteMy Ranking For this Movie are :--
ReplyDelete1. Inception
2. Kick-Ass
3. The Expendables
4. Machete
5. The Tournament
My Personal List of Best Action Movies