The 8 Best Action Movies of the 2020s

Ranked by the movie.guru score, the blend of critics and audiences. The math put a biography on an action list. We didn't fight it. Much.

Number one is the biggest movie here, and movie guru isn't fully sold.

1. 8
   The Cycle of Love (2025)9.3

   The Action tag is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

   100% on Rotten Tomatoes, but IMDb has just 450 votes and it made $248,653 worldwide. The data adores it. Your group chat has never heard of it.
2. 7
   Godzilla Minus One (2023)9.3

   Best Godzilla movie, because the humans actually matter.

   99% on Rotten Tomatoes and an A CinemaScore on $113.9 million worldwide. That's pocket change for a kaiju movie, and it still shows up the big-budget ones.
3. 6
   RRR (2022)9.4

   Physics filed a complaint. RRR ignored it and won.

   Only $15.2 million domestic but $166.6 million worldwide. Audiences beat 96% of movies. If subtitles kept you away, that's a you problem.
4. 5
   Dune: Part Two (2024)9.4

   Gorgeous and huge, but it still feels like half a book.

   Audiences beat 100% of movies, and it made $714.8 million worldwide on a reported $190 million budget. Critics were cooler: a 79 on Metacritic.
5. 4
   Jailer 2 (2026)9.5

   Rajinikanth walks slowly and the score goes up.

   No critic data at all. Audiences beat 98% of movies and pushed it to 9.5 on 16,381 IMDb votes. That's fan math, and fans run this list.
6. 3
   Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye (2025)9.5

   Fun, but this 9.5 is a fan club with a calculator.

   Guru's Take is 7.4, over two points under its movie.guru score. Only 2,427 IMDb votes and $6.9 million worldwide. The loudest fans showed up first.
7. 2
   Top Gun: Maverick (2022)9.5

   The plot is a video game mission. Nobody cares.

   A+ CinemaScore, $718.7 million domestic, $1.5 billion worldwide. Tom Cruise made a legacy sequel feel like a dare, and audiences beat 99% of movies.
8. 1
   The Odyssey (2026)9.5

   Number one by the data. Movie guru would rank it lower.

   Metacritic 88 and $1.8 billion worldwide on a reported $250 million. But Guru's Take is 8.6, nearly a full point under its 9.5. Nolan fans, form a line.

$643.29 says the first comment is someone asking where John Wick went.

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