10 Best Action Movies on Peacock
Peacock dials up the action with some gold standard butt-kickers! Check out our picks for 10 worthwhile cinematic thrill rides.
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Jurassic Park
June 11, 1993A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
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The Bourne Identity
June 14, 2002Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
You can see most of the Bourne movies on Peacock, so if you like this first film, keep on watching for more crazy stunts.
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Casino Royale
November 14, 2006Le Chiffre, a banker to the world’s terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Daniel Craig jumps into the role of James Bond and gives the franchise a much-needed revamp. This Bond is more grounded, and clearly influenced by the Jason Bourne movies.
- Director: Martin Campbell
- James Bond: Daniel Craig
- Villain(s): Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen)
Mr. White (Jesper Christensen)
Adolph Gettler (Richard Sammel) - Bond Girl(s): Vesper Lynd (Eva Green)
- Theme Song: “You Know My Name” by Chris Cornell
- Soundtrack Composer: David Arnold
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Kick-Ass
March 22, 2010Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
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Conan the Barbarian
April 2, 1982A film adaptation of the classic sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.
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Fast & Furious 6
May 21, 2013Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.
The Fast & Furious franchise is splintered across several streaming services, but you can watch the sixth film on Peacock.
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Non-Stop
February 26, 2014Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today’s flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.
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Lucy
July 25, 2014A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Hulk
June 19, 2003Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
This Ang Lee and Eric Bana movie arrived five years before the official start of the MCU, but the finale still packs a mean, green punch.
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Quantum of Solace
October 31, 2008Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
- Director: Marc Forster
- James Bond: Daniel Craig
- Villain(s): Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric)
Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) - Bond Girl(s): Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton)
- Theme Song: “Another Way to Die” by Jack White and Alicia Keys
- Soundtrack Composer: David Arnold
