Sometimes, action movies can be great without being particularly intense.

Thats a statement that shouldnt alarm anyone, nor sound anything close to controversial.

Marshal on his tail.

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It’s alsoaremarkably linear action movie, owing to that sense of things being like one long chase.

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Bruce Willis as John McClane looking down from a broken window in Die Hard

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Aki Maeda and Tatsuya Fujiwara as Noriko and Shuya wearing bloodstained school uniforms and collars around their necks in Battle Royale (2000)

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Harrison Ford as Dr. Kimble in The Fugitive

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The infamous torture scene from Casino Royale - 2006

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Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) stands holding a machine gun as orange light shines through smoke in ‘Aliens’ (1986).Alien

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Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Zoe Kravitz as Toast in Mad Max Fury Road looking back.

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Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer armed with assault rifles in Heat

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William Peterson and John Pankow in To Live and Die in L.A.

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