Top rated action-oriented movies that are also epic

Check out today’s highest ranked action-oriented and epic movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are action-oriented and epic, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020)

After the vicious slaughter of his family by stone-cold mercenary Sub-Zero, Hanzo Hasashi is exiled to the torturous Netherrealm. There, in exchange for his servitude to the sinister Quan Chi, he’s given a chance to avenge his family – and is resurrected as Scorpion, a lost soul bent on revenge. Back on Earthrealm, Lord Raiden gathers a team of elite warriors – Shaolin monk Liu Kang, Special Forces officer Sonya Blade and action star Johnny Cage – an unlikely band of heroes with one chance to save humanity. To do this, they must defeat Shang Tsung’s horde of Outworld gladiators and reign over the Mortal Kombat tournament.

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2020-04-12 | Animation / Action

Cast

Patrick Seitz, Jordan Rodrigues

Rating

rating icon 8.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    little rushed plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    totally awesome
  3. Ranked #2 for
    feeling tacked on

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Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge trailer
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2 Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.

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2021-03-24 | Action / Science Fiction

Cast

Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown

Rating

rating icon 7.624
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    truly epic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    titan
  3. Ranked #2 for
    locking horns

Trailer

Godzilla vs. Kong trailer
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3 Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)

Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!

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2020-10-16 | Action / Animation

Cast

Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kito

Rating

rating icon 8.234
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    spectacular
  2. Ranked #1 for
    mind-blowing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    truly breathtaking

Trailer

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train trailer
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4 Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

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2022-05-24 | Action / Drama

Cast

Tom Cruise, Miles Teller

Rating

rating icon 8.222
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    naff
  2. Ranked #2 for
    cocksure
  3. Ranked #2 for
    exhilarating

Trailer

Top Gun: Maverick trailer
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5 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and together they embark on a globe-trotting journey to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands.

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2022-03-30 | Action / Adventure

Cast

James Marsden, Ben Schwartz

Rating

rating icon 7.521
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    reintroduction
  2. Ranked #3 for
    kind of suck
  3. Ranked #3 for
    much fun

Trailer

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 trailer
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6 The Woman King (2022)

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

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2022-09-16 | Action / Drama

Cast

Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu

Rating

rating icon 7.694
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    accurate
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fierce
  3. Ranked #2 for
    historically accurate

Trailer

The Woman King trailer
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7 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

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2021-09-01 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Simu Liu, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Rating

rating icon 7.561
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    perfect foil character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    based on movieverse
  3. Ranked #2 for
    comic relief sidekick

Trailer

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer
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8 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

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2019-08-08 | War / Action

Cast

Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey

Rating

rating icon 6.82
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brave character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    true representation
  3. Ranked #2 for
    heroic acting

Trailer

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan trailer
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9 Mat Kilau (2022)

The rise of a Malay warrior named Mat Kilau and his friends against the British colonialists who came to Pahang in 1892. The greed of British officials and policies, which have imposed excessive taxes, confiscated land belonging to the Malays to reap the treasures of Pahang and disrupted the Islamic way in Pahang has caused dissatisfaction among the rulers and the Malays. The patriotic spirit of Mat Kilau and his friends who rose up against British violence had caused Captain Syers to launch an attack on Mat Kilau. Witness the heroic spirit of Mat Kilau, Tok Gajah and Mat Kilau's best friends use their wisdom to fight in the jungle against the British soldiers. Did Mat Kilau and his friends succeed in driving out the barbaric and greedy British army to reap gold and tin in Pahang?

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2022-06-23 | Action / History

Cast

Adi Putra, Fattah Amin

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fluid camera movement
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unique camera angle
  3. Ranked #1 for
    atmospheric lighting

Trailer

Mat Kilau trailer
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10 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.

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2019-05-29 | Science Fiction / Action

Cast

Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    titan
  2. Ranked #4 for
    massive scale
  3. Ranked #7 for
    freakin awesome

Trailer

Godzilla: King of the Monsters trailer
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