The best action movies on NEON

Let the fists, bullets, and blades fly: Daniel Rutledge has picked the very best of the adrenaline-pumping action category on NEON, guaranteeing you all the fatal one-liners and car chases you could ever dream of.

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Fast & Furious 7 (2015)

The last great Fast & Furious movie before the franchise switched gears from silly fun to silly shit, this one also served as a gorgeous farewell to Paul Walker. Before all that emotional goodbye stuff, we get to enjoy our two main boys in dapper suits pilot an ultra-luxurious Lykan HyperSport and fly it between the opulent Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi. The final chase and battle sequence through LA is also pretty sweet.

Lethal Weapon (1987)

This is one of those giddily great classics in which all the right elements came together. There’s Richard Donner’s rousing direction; Shane Black’s dynamite script; Eric Clapton and Michael Kamen’s super cool score; and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover’s amazing chemistry as the leads. Buddy action comedies don’t get better.

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Almost Terminator 2 levels of near-perfect action movie sequel, this betters the set pieces of the original, throws Joe Pesci into the mix, has a guy get a surfboard through his head, and throws in the best toilet explosion ever.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)

The first Christopher McQuarrie-directed Mission Impossible is one of the franchise’s highlights, getting the tone just right with its combination of comedy and drama in between awesome fights and stunts. We get an amazing car chase in Morocco, the crazy underwater breath-holding bit and of course the opening Tom Cruise-hangs-off-a-plane-as-it-takes-off bit, among other thrills.

Monkey Man (2024)

Dev Patel’s directorial debut is a gritty, ultraviolent revenge thriller that blends Indian folklore with western action sensibilities. Set in Mumbai, Monkey Man crackles with raw intensity and social fury. Patel is fantastic in the lead, and while the action isn’t perfect, it goes for the jugular and savagely gets it.

Nowhere to Run (1993)

Few things are cooler than Jean Claude Van Damme in his prime. As an escaped convict who comes to the aid of rural single mother being victimized by evil property developers, he stars as a Clint Eastwood sort of guy carrying out righteous justice. Nowhere to Run is sexy in ways films these days aren’t, delivering solid violence with a classically American, almost fairytale like vibe.

The Terminator (1984)

Few films have had as big an impact on the action genre as this 1984 classic. But regardless of its legacy and what it did for Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron’s careers, it’s also just a bloody good movie—and great to rewatch every year or so. Darker and more sinister than you might remember, it absolutely rules.

This guide is regularly updated to reflect changes in NEON’s catalogue. For a list of capsule reviews that have been removed from this page because they are no longer available on the platform, visit here.