The Greatest Action Movies of 2022


20 Nope

Nope

A man and his sister discover something sinister in the skies above their California horse ranch, while the owner of a nearby theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.

Director: Jordan Peele
Writer: Jordan Peele
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea
Budget: $68 000 000
Box office: $171 235 000

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19 Fall

Fall

For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter’s expert climbing skills will be put to the ultimate test as they desperately fight to survive the elements, a lack of supplies, and vertigo-inducing heights in this adrenaline-fueled thriller.

Director: Scott Mann
Writers: Jonathan Frank, Scott Mann
Starring: Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding
Budget: $3 000 000
Box office: $17 377 000

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18 The Gray Man

The Gray Man

When the CIA’s most skilled mercenary whose true identity is known to none accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins.

Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Writers: Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $454 000

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17 The Adam Project

The Adam Project

In a dystopian 2050, fighter pilot Adam Reed steals a time jet to escape to 2018 to save his wife, Laura. In the process, he gets injured and crash-lands in 2022. The story then shifts to 12-year-old Adam in 2022, whose father Louis died a year previously. He is bullied at school, gets suspended for fighting in school, and is distant from his mother Ellie. When he is home alone one night, he finds the injured future Adam. The younger Adam refuses to trust the stranger, but future Adam inadvertently mentions the names of both the younger Adam and his dog, Hawking. The younger Adam soon realizes that the stranger in front of him is his future self.

Director: Shawn Levy
Writers: Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell, Mark Ruffalo

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16 The Black Phone

The Black Phone

Finney, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Director: Scott Derrickson
Writers: Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, Joe Hill
Starring: Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke
Budget: $16 000 000
Box office: $161 204 000

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15 The Northman

The Northman

In AD 895, King Aurvandill returns to the island of Hrafnsey, reuniting with his wife, Queen Gudrún, and his heir, Prince Amleth. To prepare Amleth for his eventual ascension, the father and son participate in a ceremony overseen by Aurvandill’s jester, Heimir. Heimir tells Amleth that his destiny is fixed and cannot be escaped, and Amleth vows to avenge his father if Aurvandill is ever slain, rather than live his life in shame. The next morning, Amleth’s bastard uncle Fjölnir stages a palace coup, personally beheads Aurvandill, sacks the hillfort and carries away Gudrún. Amleth narrowly escapes Fjölnir’s assassins and flees by boat, swearing vengeance.

Director: Robert Eggers
Writers: Sjón, Robert Eggers
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang
Budget: $90 000 000
Box office: $69 633 000

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14 The Witch: Part 2 — The Other One (Manyeo 2 | 마녀 Part2. The Other One)

Manyeo 2

After a mysterious girl emerges as the sole survivor of a bloody raid on the research facility behind the top-secret Witch Program, she is rescued by a pair of civilians who soon realize the girl is both very powerful and in very grave danger. However, as the assassins tasked with locating and silencing the girl move ever closer, the lives of everyone around her fall under increasingly great peril.

Director: Park Hoon-jeong
Writer: Park Hoon-jeong
Starring: Shin Si-ah, Park Eun-bin, Seo Eun-soo
Budget: $7 000 000
Box office: $23 068 000

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13 Uncharted

Uncharted

Street-smart thief Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor «Sully» Sullivan to recover a fortune lost by Ferdinand Magellan 500 years ago. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Moncada, who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world’s oldest mysteries, they stand to find $5 billion in treasure and perhaps even Nate’s long-lost brother…but only if they can learn to work together.

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Writers: Arthur Marcum, Matt Holloway, Rafe Judkins
Starring: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas
Budget: $120 000 000
Box office: $401 748 000

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12 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Nicolas Cage stars as… Nick Cage in the action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones. With a career built for this very moment, the seminal award-winning actor must take on the role of a lifetime: Nick Cage.

Director: Tom Gormican
Writers: Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish
Box office: $29 116 000

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11 Bandit

Bandit

In 1985, Gilbert Galvan Jr, a charming career criminal, escapes from a US prison in Michigan and crosses the border into Canada where he assumes the identity Robert Whiteman. After falling in love with Andrea, a caring social worker he can’t provide for, he turns to robbing banks and discovers that he’s exceptionally good at it. Under the guise of a security analyst, Robert begins flying around the country robbing multiple cities in a day, eventually catching the attention of national news outlets that dub him The Flying Bandit. Addicted to the rush and money that provides his double life, Robert eventually turns to loanshark and reputed gangster Tommy Kay or bigger opportunities. But with Robert’s notoriety growing in record time, he is put into the direct sights of a ruthless detective who will stop at nothing to bring him down.

Director: Allan Ungar
Writers: Kraig Wenman, Robert Knuckle
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert, Mel Gibson
Box office: $470 000

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