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Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Action Films

(found at: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20042607,00.html?iid=recirc-20071203-pg400-actionmovies)
1. Die Hard
by John McTiernan
  
2. Aliens (Special Edition)
by James Cameron
  
3. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Widescreen Edition)  
4. The Road Warrior
by George Miller (II)
  
5. The Matrix
by Larry Wachowski
  
6. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition
by Akira Kurosawa
  
7. Gladiator - Extended Cut (Three-Disc Special Edition)
by Ridley Scott
  
8. Saving Private Ryan
by Steven Spielberg
  
9. Hard Boiled - Criterion Collection  
10. Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by James Cameron
  
11. Speed (Widescreen Edition)
by Jan de Bont
  
12. Star Wars, Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen Edition)
by Irvin Kershner
  
13. The Wild Bunch [Blu-ray]
by Sam Peckinpah
  
14. Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)  
15. Enter the Dragon
by Robert Clouse
  
16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  
17. The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen Edition)
by Paul Greengrass
  
18. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
  
19. Goldfinger
by Guy Hamilton
  
20. Kill Bill, Volume 1
by Quentin Tarantino
  
21.
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 Spider-Man 2 (Full Screen Special Edition)  
22. Predator (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by John McTiernan
  
23.
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 Jui Kuen II [Drunken Master 2] (1994, Chia-Liang Liu & Jackie Chan)  
24. Lethal Weapon (Director's Cut)
by Richard Donner
  
25. The Incredibles (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
26. The Terminator
by James Cameron
  
27. The Professional
by Luc Besson
  
28. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by George Roy Hill
  
29. Kung Fu Hustle (Full Screen Edition)  
30. Gunga Din
by George Stevens
  
31. Mission - Impossible III (Full Screen Edition)
by J.J. Abrams
  
32. True Lies
by James Cameron
  
33. The Fugitive
by Andrew Davis
  
34. Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
by Tony Scott
  
35. Rambo: First Blood, Part 2
by George P. Cosmatos
  
36. Twister
by Jan de Bont
  
37. The Rock
by Michael Bay
  
38. X2 - X-Men United (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)  
39. The Crimson Pirate
by Robert Siodmak
  
40. Independence Day (Single Disc Widescreen Edition)
by Roland Emmerich
  
41. Desperado (Special Edition)
by Robert Rodriguez
  
42. La Femme Nikita (Special Edition)
by Luc Besson
  
43. Total Recall
by Paul Verhoeven
  
44. Escape from New York  
45. Apocalypto
by Mel Gibson
  
46. Pitch Black (Widescreen Edition)
by David Twohy
  
47. Assault on Precinct 13 (Special Edition)  
48. Under Siege
by Andrew Davis
  
49. Point Break (Pure Adrenaline Edition)
by Kathryn Bigelow
  
50. Battleship Potemkin
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
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Created by lifemakeoverat30 on Jan 06, 2008.