Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT John Wick has raised the bar for modern action movies, and some have really risen to the challenge of meeting its standards. Keanu Reeves was first introduced as the eponymous anti-hero in 2014's John Wick, in which the legendary Baba Yaga comes out of retirement to avenge the killing of his beloved dog. John Wick would spawn three sequels , multiple spin-offs, and set an overall new standard for action movies to aspire to.
10 Sisu Jalmari Helander's Sisu plugs the John Wick formula into a World War II setting, following Aatami Korpi as he singled-handedly battles Nazis during the Finland's Lepland War of 1944. It turns out that Aatami is a legendary one-man army known as "Koschei", or "The Immortal", something that comes across loud and clear in Sisu's hard-hitting action scenes.
8 Kate Netflix's 2021 actioner Kate centers on Mary Elizabeth-Winstead as the movie's eponymous assassin trying to get out of the game after one last mission and finding herself protecting Ani , the niece of a Yakuza boss. Winstead brings a wounded grit to her performance as Kate, with the film sending her on a redemption story in her reluctant but committedly maternal relationship with Ani.
5 Extraction When the world was first on lockdown in 2020, Chris Hemsworth's Tyler Rake was on a harrowing rescue mission in Sam Hagrave's Extraction, which become the year's big action hit with its incredible 11-minute one-shot action scene. Hemsworth trades Thor's hammer for guns, blades, and fists, and shows himself to be a worthy action hero as the grizzled Tyler Rake, with the character himself a true equal to John Wick.
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