Action on Netflix

Two useless cops go undercover in high school and discover they were not cool the first time either. Loud, dumb, and very funny. On Netflix and Paramount+.

They go to college this time, and the movie knows it is a sequel. Same pair, bigger budget, same joke, still works.

A billionaire fakes his death and funds a team of ghosts to take down a dictator. Michael Bay, on Netflix, all motion and very little quiet.

Ripley goes back, this time with Marines who think guns will be enough. James Cameron turns the nightmare into a war film, and both halves still work.

Jennifer Lopez has to trust an AI she hates in order to stop the one she built. A 2024 Netflix science-fiction action film, big and straightforward.

Chris Hemsworth's mercenary gets one more impossible rescue, this time from a prison. On Netflix, and it does not slow down.

Postwar Tokyo, a pilot who already survived one disaster, and Godzilla treated like a real catastrophe. The 2023 film, on Netflix.

An assassin and her mother try to protect a kid, with a library that is also an armory. On Netflix, stylized and bloody.

Assassins in the present kill targets sent from the future, until one of them is sent himself. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, on Netflix.

The same couple, now private detectives, and a kidnapping at a wedding. The sequel, also on Netflix.

A pill gives you five minutes of a superpower, and it might also kill you. Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, on Netflix.

A man comes to a small town to post bail and the police take his money. Jeremy Saulnier's 2024 film is a thriller that becomes a fight. On Netflix.

An FBI profiler, the world's most wanted art thief, and a third person who is lying. Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, on Netflix.

Miles Morales learns there are other Spider-People, and the movie looks like a comic that learned to move. On Netflix.

A pilot from the future crash-lands in his own childhood and has to team up with the kid he used to be. Ryan Reynolds, on Netflix.

The reformed animal criminals get pulled into one more job. The 2025 animated sequel, on Netflix, built for a loud living room.

A quiet man in a hardware store helps a girl and then takes apart the people who own her. Denzel Washington, on Netflix.

A Viking prince spends his life trying to kill the uncle who took his father's throne. Beautiful, brutal, and on Netflix.

Immortal mercenaries discover someone is hunting the thing that keeps them alive. Charlize Theron, on Netflix.

Two desk cops get a real case and are completely unprepared. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, on Netflix.

Maverick is still flying, and he has to teach a generation that thinks he is a relic. The 2022 film, on Netflix and Paramount+. The flights are the reason.

Santa is real, he used to be a warrior, and a heist team picked the wrong house on Christmas Eve. On Netflix. Not for the kids' pile.

The children of captured superheroes have to save them, and they are better at it than the adults expected. A Netflix family action film.