Are you searching for some action-packed thrill rides featuring one-man armies? Then, we got you covered. After an online entertainment community asked for the best examples of said films, here is what they recommended.
1. Upgrade (2018)
After a brutal attack, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) is left paralyzed in the hospital, and his wife is dead. In the wake of this horrible ordeal, a tech mogul offers Grey a lifeline, an artificial intelligence implant that enhances his physical abilities. Grey Takes this newfound power and exacts revenge on those who did him wrong.
2. Lucy (2014)
After her boyfriend tricks her into delivering a mysterious briefcase, Lucy (Scarlett Johannson) is dragged into a seedy underworld against her will. She is used as a drug mule to carry a high-tech new drug that somehow leaks into her blood and changes her forever.
3. Road to Perdition (2002)
An enforcer (Tom Hanks) for a powerful mob in the Midwest during the Great Depression has become good friends with his mobster boss. But the mobster’s son doesn’t approve of their bond. When the enforcer’s oldest son witnesses a murder, the mob goes after his family. After that, nothing will stop this enforcer from exacting his revenge.
4. Payback (1999)
A thief named Porter (Mel Gibson) is shot in the back, left for dead, and betrayed by his partner in crime and his wife as they double-cross him after a big heist. As you can tell by the title, Porter goes on a mission of revenge after he makes a full recovery from his wounds. Intent on getting what he is owed and no more, Porter employs a lady of the night to assist him, and they soon learn his ex-crime partner is no longer his biggest concern.
5. Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)
A gun-toting, carrot-munching sharpshooter (Clive Owen) rescues a baby from assassins and elicits the help of a street walker (Monica Bellucci) to keep the baby safe. Their efforts to keep the little tot out of harm’s way are regularly thwarted by a gun-dealing hitman (Paul Giamatti) who is always hot on their trail. In the pursuit of safety, the unlikely pair discover corruption and evil on a level no one could believe.
6. Atomic Blonde (2017)
If you like high-octane, fist-flying, nonstop action, Atomic Blonde is one to check out. Charlize Theron play’s Lorraine Broughton, MI6’s best agent preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. During her most dangerous mission ever, Broughton must employ every tactic and strategy she has learned to stay alive in the world’s deadliest game of keep away!
7. Elysium (2013)
On a dying planet Earth where the overgrowing population is forced to fend for themselves, the uber-rich live on a space station called Elysium, orbiting just outside of the planet’s gravitational pull. After accidentally receiving a lethal dose of radiation at work, an Earth-dweller named Max (Matt Damon) is left with no choice but to take on a dangerous mission that would not only benefit him but the remaining population of the dying planet Earth.
8. The Book of Eli (2010)
Thirty years after nuclear war turns the world into a desolate wasteland, a man named Eli (Denzel Washington) makes the trek from the east coast to the west coast in order to protect and preserve the one thing that will restore humanity’s hope. On his trek, Eli encounters one man who understands what he is carrying and wants it for himself to control the people. As a man who chooses nonviolence, he will fight to the death to safeguard his precious cargo.
9. Dredd (2012)
In this remake of the comic strip Judge Dredd, Dredd is a cop known as a Judge in a lawless city where criminals and thugs run the streets, and the cops are the judge, jury, and executioner. Karl Urban plays the title character, who is paired with a gifted individual to investigate a drug lord’s territory, and it’s not an easy mission.
10. The Punisher (2004)
Frank Castle (Thomas Jane), a newly retired FBI agent, watched his entire family killed and left for dead himself, all on the orders of a ruthless crime boss named Howard Saint (John Travolta). While on the mend, Castle becomes the heavily armed and highly motivated vigilante known as The Punisher. The Punisher won’t let anything deter his path from revenge.
11. Blind Fury (1989)
Nick Parker (Rutger Hauer) is blind, but he is skilled at swordsmanship. As this Vietnam vet makes his way across the country to meet with a fellow war vet, Parker discovers that his buddy is in bad with the wrong people. Nick formulates a plan to rescue his friend, and his adversaries have made the poor decision of underestimating him.
12. The Rundown (2003)
Beck (The Rock) is a bounty hunter who doesn’t talk much, accepts any job without question, and, get this, doesn’t like using guns! Beck’s employer sends him to recover his free-spirited son from an escapade in the Amazon. Upon his arrival, Beck learns of the oppression and exploitation of the local population. In order to stay alive and to help the people, Beck teams up with his boss’s son, and they give this tyrant The Rundown!
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Source: Reddit.