3 insane action movies to stream on Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video right now

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Is there anything better than a beautiful, well-paced period drama with Oscar-worthy cinematography? Well, yes… explosions and helicopters!

Explosions and helicopters will always be better.

There are few things better than big, stupid action movies – films that push boundaries and put a huge army boot-style kick into your adrenal gland. For pure escapism, an action flick can deliver absolute puerile entertainment – all wrapped up in an hour or two.

Here we suggest three of our favourites of recent times that you can watch on the majorstreaming servicesright now.

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At the end of the Chris Hemsworth action vehicleExtractionwe see our main character, Tyler Rake, dead. He is deceased… a goner… expired… departed… no more… shot multiple times, blown up, then fallen from a bridge and drowned. However, in the world of movies when should a little thing like that get in the way of a follow up?

Obvious he got better.

I’m pretty sure there is some kind of story and plot inExtraction 2, and I’m pretty sure that at some point they sat down and wrote a script of sorts. What they didn’t do was let things like that get in the way of making an absolutely insane and completely nonsensical action movie.

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Helicopters explode, people get shot millions of times, things burst into flames and all that usually happens while falling from high things.

Hemsworth is great – he throws himself fully into the franchise and comes across as a very likeable and dependable action hero. His obvious physicality carries well and action scenes are choreographed almost to perfection. They are brutal, visceral and raw, never holding back and using single shot runs and dutch angles to create a unique and memorable style.

Extraction 2isn’t going to win any awards, but it never intends to. It does exactly what is intended and I have no doubt will just be the second in a raft of future instalments.

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Alita: Battle Angel

Based on the 1990s Battle Angel Alita manga series, the big screen adaptation gives us a glimpse into a far future where humanity has fully embraced cybernetic augmentation and the lines between man and machine have become blurred. Law and order has seemingly collapsed, with huge corporations ruling things and the separation of rich and poor being not just a social construct but also a geographical issue. The rich live in gleaming, perfect, floating cities, the poor down in the slums where life is cheap and murder is commonplace.

However, that’s in spite of the fact that it’s a really solid action film with some amazing and insane set pieces, so shouldn’t put you off.

It looks great, has a fantastic cast, and features some jaw dropping action sequences that, despite its cartoonish appearance, are surprisingly graphic and mature.

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John Wick 4

What can be said about John Wick that hasn’t already? It’s quite possibly the biggest action movie franchise in the world right now, andJohn Wick 4is even bigger, louder, longer and more intense than its predecessors in almost every way. It also brings the story of the titular John Wick to an end… although I think we all know that won’t happen.

Instead of boring you with a synopsis, I’ll focus on one particular scene where I fully believe the film shows itself to be more than just a shoot ‘em up and becomes simply art.

The entire scene is played out like a dance, like ballet, with each step and movement perfectly choreographed and every frame over-saturated and torn between dragged-out slow motion and sped-up, hyper-realised celluloid. The intensity of the scene and the level of talent and work that must have gone into it is mind-blowing.

It is an absolutely beautiful scene, one worthy of being released simply on its own.

John Wick 4is the best in the franchise so far. It’s indulgent, makes very little sense, is poorly paced, and about an hour too long, but all of this means nothing when watched for what it is. It is, quite simply, the best example of modern action cinema.

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