10 Best Action Movies On Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Videohas a wide range of movies on its platform, but the best action movies on Prime Video offer some of their most exciting options. Prime Video has built one of the biggest libraries of content out of all the streaming services. While it is known for original movies and shows as well, its extensive collection of acquired movies features everything from modern hits to older classics from genres of all kinds. This includes a great offering of action movies.

Action movies provide thrilling stories of all kinds for audiences to enjoy and have been a huge draw for streaming audiences over the years. Among the movies on Prime Video right now, the action genre is well-represented with a variety of options. There are movies from some of the biggest franchises around like Mission: Impossible. There are older classics like The Great Escape. There are even the most recent favorites, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Action fans can check out those exciting titles and other great movies on Prime Video now.

10 G20 (2025)

The U.S. President Has To Defend Her Family From Terrorists

Viola Davis took the lead in the Prime Video original action thriller G20. Davis stars in the film as United States President Danielle Sutton, and the plot sees her attending the world G20 summit in Cape Town, South Africa. However, when terrorists take over the event, Sutton won't go into hiding as she takes control of the situation when she has to protect her family (husband Anthony Anderson and daughter Marsai Martin) from the terrorists trying to take her out.

Early reviews of the Prime Video action movie are mostly positive, although many critics say that the best part about the film is that it is ridiculous, and it knows it. While called a guilty pleasure by some critics, they also praised Davis's acting skills as well as the throwback aspects of the action scenes, calling back memories of the big-budget action flicks of the 1980s.

9 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

The Ninja Turtles Encounter A Gang Of Vengeful Mutants

The latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie also happens to be the best one in the franchise's long history. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem finds Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo living in the sewers with their adoptive father, Splinter, with a desire to live like real teenagers with the humans. When they discover a band of mutant thugs, they are forced to decide between acceptance or saving the world.

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The movie is the first time the Ninja Turtles felt like real teenagers which infuses the movie with a sense of humor and a lot of energy. There is a fantastic soundtrack and some stylish animation, but the movie really comes alive in its action sequences. These sequences embrace the fun of the movie, being inventive, wild, and thrilling. From the montage of the heroes taking on bad guys to the mid-car chase fight to the climactic battle, it is a fun ride from beginning to end.

8 Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)

An American Soldier Returns To Afghanistan To Rescue His Interpreter

While Guy Richie is mostly known for his British crime movies, 2023's The Covenant saw the filmmaker venture into a modern war movie with surprisingly effective results. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim, telling the story of a US Army Green Beret sergeant named John Kinley (Gyllenhaal) and his Afghan interpreter, Ahmed (Salim). Kinley and Ahmed are ambushed by Taliban forces during the War in Afghanistan, starting the film off on an action-packed note.

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This action movie on Amazon Prime Video is an interesting look at the real-world failure of the War in Afghanistan and how many of local interpreters were left to fend for themselves when the American forces left. However, it is also just a gripping story between these two men who don't particularly like each other but feel as though they owe each other a debt. Ritchie proves himself a versatile action director with intense shootouts and combat sequences.

7 Fall Guy (2024)

A Stunt Man Sets Out To Find A Missing Actor

Fall Guy is inspired by the classic Lee Majors television series, but it really has almost nothing to do with that story. In the film, Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) is not a bounty hunter, but is only a stuntman for major movies. However, when his film's leading man disappears, he is sent to find the actor, only to end up falling into a dangerous criminal circle where he has to run for his life, while trying to ensure that his director (and former lover) doesn't have her movie fall apart.

The film was a box office disappointment thanks to an inflated budget, but it was also a film that received a lot of praise for its humor, action, and actual stunt scenes. Various critics groups honored it for its practical stunt work, which was a huge part of the film's promotion. While disappointing at the box office, it ended up finding a new life at home on streaming and it has become a pretty big hit on services like Prime Video.

6 Highlander (1986)

Immortals Fight Until Only One Remains

Highlander is an action movie on Prime Video that also plays as a fantasy epic. Christopher Lambert stars as Connor MacLeod, an immortal from the 16th Century who lives in New York in 1985. There is a long-lasting competition going on with other immortals hunting down and killing each other in combat (only by beheading). When one immortal kills another, they gain their powers and become stronger. When only a few remain, they will battle in the Gathering, where only one will survive with all the power.

The movie is older, and in some ways it is a product of its time, but the sword battles and fight scenes are all top-form, and the entire mythology was beloved enough to spawn a franchise, with more installments and even a TV show with one of Connor's relatives carrying on his story. Critics were unimpressed, but audiences loved the movie and, in later years, critics reassessed the original film and awarded it better reviews looking back on its legacy.

5 Monkey Man (2024)

A Man Seeks Revenge On The People Who Killed His Mother

Monkey Man is Dev Patel's (Slumdog Millionaire) directorial debut, where he also stars as Kid, a young man seeking vengeance. A man named Baba is a racist spiritual guru who works with corrupt police officials to remove members of a religious minority, often by killing them. When the police chief murders Kid's mother and burns her body, the boy plans vengeance and finally starts the plan when he grows up and infiltrates the club where the crooked cops and politicians frequent.

The movie is full of action, with Patel proving to be a masterful student of martial arts. This was also a personal film for Patel, with themes including corruption, discrimination, the caste system, and more in India, and he used actual news footage from real protests in the country. The movie was a small box office success and received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. It is now available to stream on Prime Video for fans of action movies and martial arts.

4 The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Seven Cowboys Agree To Help Save A Village From A Corrupt Cattle Baron

In 1954, Akira Kurosawa made one of the greatest samurai movies in history with Seven Samurai, where seven Ronin warriors gathered to help save a village from a corrupt overlord. In 1960, John Sturgis directed an American Western remake called The Magnificent Seven. On Prime Video, the remake of that movie is available to stream, with the 2016 Antoine Fuqua Western The Magnificent Seven. Fuqua re-teams with his Training Day actor Denzel Washington, whose Sam Chisholm leads the seven outlaws into action.

The action is great, the gunfights are masterfully choreographed and all the actors bring their A-game, which is no surprise under the guidance of Fuqua.

While this is a remake of a remake, it is still a great action movie and worth watching. Joining Washington is an all-star cast, including Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio and Peter Sarsgaard. The action is great, the gunfights are masterfully choreographed and all the actors bring their A-game, which is no surprise under the guidance of Fuqua. It was a box office success and received mixed to positive reviews from critics.

3 Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

A Truck Driver Battles Bandits In Chinatown

Kurt Russell was on a role in the 1980s, with horror masterpiece The Thing and action movie masterpiece Escape from New York. What those two movies had in common was John Carpenter directing them. There is a third John Carpenter and Kurt Russell collaboration that is on Prime Video as one of the most iconic action movies of the 1980s. In Big Trouble in Little China, Russell plays Jack Burton, a truck driver who agrees to help his friends battle some bandits in the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco.

As with most of Carpenter's films, it wasn't a big hit at the box office when it came out, but later became a massively popular cult classic. The movie received mostly positive reviews, and its critical reception in later years was even better, with the film's legacy as that of a great movie that didn't get a fair chance when it came to the studio system. It even spawned a video game, comic book series, action figures, and more, showing its true lasting power.

2 The Great Escape (1963)

Allied POWs Plot An Ambitious Escape

While war movies can often be too grim and heavy to really deliver on the thrills of the action movie genre, The Great Escape is one of the best entries in the genre with a sense of adventure while also being one of the best prison escape movies. The movie is based on the true story of one of the most daring Prisoners of War escape missions in history as it follows various Allied troops in a German prison camp who plan a massive exodus.

This classic action movie on Amazon Prime Video has comedy, tragedy, and a thrilling scale as the audience waits to see if the ambitious plan can be pulled off.

The Great Escape features an all-star cast that includes Charles Bronson and James Garner, but it is Steve McQueen who steals the show as the ultra-cool escape artist who attempts to make his getaway during the infamous motorcycle chase sequence. This classic action movie on Amazon Prime Video has comedy, tragedy, and a thrilling scale as the audience waits to see if the ambitious plan can be pulled off.

1 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

Ethan Hunt Takes On The Villainous Organization Known As The Syndicate

While Top Gun brought Tom Cruise plenty of acclaim, the Mission: Impossible franchise is his greatest achievement in action movies. The series doesn't have a single bad entry, but Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, the fifth movie, is certainly one of the best of them all. The movie finds Cruise' Ethan Hunt taking on an organization known as The Syndicate, which is a criminal enterprise wreaking havoc all over the world.

The big-budget action movie on Amazon Prime Video continues Cruise's penchant for doing his own stunts which makes for some unforgettable sequences

The big-budget action movie on Amazon Prime Video continues Cruise's penchant for doing his own stunts which makes for some unforgettable sequences, such as the opening scene of him hanging on the side of a plane, the underwater heist scene, or the thrilling motorcycle chase. It is also the first movie in the franchise to introduce Rebecca Ferguson's character of Ilsa Faust who becomes a thrilling new addition to the story.

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