Ilana Gordon is an entertainment, culture, and comedy writer originally from Connecticut. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Welcome to your mental vacation, we hope you enjoy an action-packed itinerary. Your trip will take you from the dunes of Arrakis to CIA headquarters, and everywhere in between.
The characters you'll meet on your journey have little use for small talk and prefer to lead with their feet and fists, but don't be offended: It's not you, it's them. With denouements set around the world and redemption arcs that eschew the erudite in favor of pure, physical effort, this list of the best action films currently streaming on Netflix has something for everyone on your couch to enjoy.
Where to watch Apollo 13 : Netflix. EW grade: B read the review. Director: Ron Howard. An action crime movie two decades in the making, director Edgar Wright puts the pedal to the metal with Baby Driver , transforming what could have been just another heist film into a stylistic masterpiece with a soundtrack to match. The movie follows a young getaway driver named Baby Ansel Elgort whose attempts to extricate himself from a life of crime go awry after he is forced to participate in a post office robbery.
Baby is a fantastic character β a young, Southern kid with tinnitus and a tragic past β surrounded by violent sadists, and the film is part mixtape, part love story, and part Reservoir Dogs -style murder romp.
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Wars and wounds collide in Spike Lee 's film Da 5 Bloods , a meditation on race, generational trauma, and American intervention. Toggling between the past and present, the film follows four Black war veterans as they return to Vietnam, intent on recovering a locker of gold bars and the body of their fallen friend and squad leader, Stormin' Norman Chadwick Boseman , both of which were lost during a napalm strike.
