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I wanted to disagree with you, but checking the data almost all of the best action flicks I could have sworn were fairly recent actually came out in the early-mid noughts. Seems like after The Matrix blew up the genre, nobody ever figured out how to put it back together.
Even if I wanted to quibble and argue for the best my personal favorite action flicks within a precise “2 decade” window… it’s a depressingly short list:
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2004
- Hellboy (technically a comic movie, but I’m keeping it because Doug Jones and Ron Perlman just rocked)
- Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Vol 1 missed the cutoff)
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2006
- Crank
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2007
- Hot Fuzz
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2009
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- District 9
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2017
- Baby Driver
… Almost every single other action flick I thought of came out between 1998 and 2004. (Also, 2000 was a weirdly good year for action fans in retrospect)
Sigh. I’m gonna go bemoan the world getting lame and shake my cane at the kids out on my lawn.
Edit: JOHN WICK! How TF did I forget those? But yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s it now.
Ho-ly shit… I had forgotten this particular bit.
But yeah, me too. Undead Mummy Ernie…