Top Action Movies

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1. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
5. Star Wars (1977)
6. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
8. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
9. Apocalypse Now (1979)
10. The Matrix (1999)

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Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo has been officially remade twice. Once, successfully, three years after its release as A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood and once, to no one's particular notice, thirty-five years later as Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis. The two homages kept to Kurosawa--and co-screenwriter Ryuzo Kikushima's basic script; a lone mercenary (played by Toshiro Mifune) profits from playing two warring factions--that are in a costly battle to control a town--against one another. Yet neither production, not the noisy, dusty Last Man nor the much better Fistful had the same sense of humor that Yojimbo had. That's partially indebted to Mifune, a longtime collaborator of Kurosawa's. While Eastwood whispered his threats and Willis was only allowed to empty cartridges, Mifune was a presence all his own, capable of being comic and yet fierce, making his samurai-for-hire much more human and engaging. It's a role he had played—more or less-- for Kurosawa before in The Seven Samurai, but rarely again with such a combination of strength and cynicism, honor and humor. (more)