Top Five Action Movies
5 - Shoot 'Em Up
4 - Transporter
3 - Die Hard
2 - Die Hard With a Vengeance
1 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
*Note: I excluded all films that did not feel like your 'basic' action movie, being that they belonged to a more appropriate genre, or did not center on guns/explosions/fights. [examples: Kill Bill (because it's really a Kung-Fu Movie), Blade (because it's a super-hero movie), Tombstone (because it's a western), Indiana Jones (pulp), Star Wars (StarWars), or The Matrix (cyberpunk)] Basically it's non-Kung-Fu, Non-Hong-Kong, non-s-f, non-Sword and Sorcery, non-western, non-pulp fiction movies only.
4 - Transporter
3 - Die Hard
2 - Die Hard With a Vengeance
1 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
*Note: I excluded all films that did not feel like your 'basic' action movie, being that they belonged to a more appropriate genre, or did not center on guns/explosions/fights. [examples: Kill Bill (because it's really a Kung-Fu Movie), Blade (because it's a super-hero movie), Tombstone (because it's a western), Indiana Jones (pulp), Star Wars (StarWars), or The Matrix (cyberpunk)] Basically it's non-Kung-Fu, Non-Hong-Kong, non-s-f, non-Sword and Sorcery, non-western, non-pulp fiction movies only.

A. Based on your note, you should be excluding T2, because it's Science Fiction up the yin yang.
B. I am amazed, astounded even, at how little you and I intersect on this one.
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