10 Best Action Movies on Max
Max brings some of the best action blockbusters to your screen. In fact, it’s The Streamable’s choice for Best Streaming Service for Action Movie Fans. Check out these great flicks!
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The Dark Knight
July 16, 2008Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
December 18, 2001Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
HBO Max is also home to The Two Towers and The Return of the King, so it’s definitely worth your time to delve into the world of hobbits, elves, orcs, and wizards.
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The Matrix
March 31, 1999Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
The entire Matrix Trilogy is on HBO Max, so you can enjoy all the cyberpunk shootouts you want.
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Wonder Woman
May 30, 2017An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Superman
December 14, 1978Mild-mannered Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane (Margot Kidder). Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) launches a plan to take over the world.
A phenomenal cast is buoyed by an iconic John Williams score in a superhero film that still ranks among the greatest ever.
This is perhaps the gold standard of superhero movies, more than 40 years later. Christopher Reeve is perfect. Although the effects may have aged, the story still holds up. Superman II is also on HBO Max, and it features one of the greatest supervillains in movie history.
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Edge of Tomorrow
May 27, 2014Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again… and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
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F9
May 19, 2021Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they’ve ever encountered: his forsaken brother.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
December 13, 2014The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
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The Terminator
October 26, 1984In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the “Terminator” back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
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Men in Black
July 2, 1997After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) and new recruit Agent Jay (Will Smith) find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld with a driving Danny Elfman score, this sci-fi comedy will appeal to fans of Ghostbusters or Guardians of the Galaxy. Vincent D’Onofrio also deserves praise for his role as a human possessed by a giant bug.
