Who's the greatest action movie star ever?
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Tom Cruise, although weird beyond comprehension, and annoying as a butt boil in real life, is probably the best. Bruce Willis is a close second.
I went with Stallone as well, but it is a tough choice.
I love Willis in Die hard, but other than that franchise I am not sure he has a lot of other memorable action roles to me. Last Boyscout? Red? Hostage? Lol I mean I don't know.
I think Stallone and Arnold have the most best known action franchises/films.
Armageddon, Last Man Standing, The Fifth Element, Sin City, Lucky Number Sleven, Pulp Fiction. Mercury Rising, Looper are others.
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Bruce Willis has a ton of movies and it seems he’s pumping out 3-4 a year still. Some are garbage but his top end stuff is great.
i don’t get the love for arnold here. He has some great movies but not many and old Arnie and Stallone are tough to watch. Jcvd is better in his later years IMO than those two.
i have to go with statham honestly. He has some of the best movies. I mean lock stock is one of my favorites. The transporter movies laid the ground work for lots of scenes in fast and furious movies. Cruise has some great work too and may have the best catalogue of movies of any listed but i can’t roll with him on any list. He’s too much a head case. I’d say statham and Keanu are neck and neck and as I type this I changed my answer to Keanu because he has been doing it a very long time and still has the juice. Point Break anyone to John wick. Idk his catalogue may trump cruises now I think about it. Bill and teds.
also need to give a shout out to friggin Harrison Ford. I mean come one Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Air Force one and many others. He’s gotta be on the list
Outside of the Mission Impossible movies (which I enjoy), most of Tom Cruise's roles are not in action movies. Eye Wide Shut, Born on the Forth of July, Risky Busness, Color of Money, Rainman, Cocktail, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky, Tropic Thunder, Rock of Ages, Valkyrie, etc. He also is badly miscast as action badass Jack Reacher in two movies and is being replaced.
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Good calls there. I guess I just had a brain fart on some of those.