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Explosions, Guns, and Punches, Oh My. The Best Action of 2025

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An explosive (both literal and metaphorical) action sequence is genuinely a delight to watch, as it can be as expansive as flames crashing across the screen or more intimate, like a duel between two people as the sun rises. This gives action scenes an incredible range, and in 2025, we were given some unique spectacles.

For me, the best action scenes excel in every element, whether they be live action, special effects, digital effects, or animation, each brings a unique joy to the genre. It is also the category that looks at some departments people don’t often fully understand, like stunt coordination or second-unit direction.

2025 was the year that action dominated both the big and small screen, so much so it was hard to get this category down to a shortlist, given how many good examples we got. However, power through I must, and here we go with the rich and varied world of action.  

Our Highly Commended Films in 2025 are: 28 Years Later, The Accountant 2, Companion, F1, Fight or Flight & Weapons

Our Highly Commended TV in 2025 are: Andor, The Last of Us, Murderbot, Peacemaker & Reacher


So, without further ado, these are the moments of action that awed us in 2025 as we dive into the best action movies of 2025. Be warned that there may be slight spoilers ahead.

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Sisu: Road to Revenge – Movie Review

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TL;DR – While it loses some of its drive halfway through, it is still the action romp that it needs to be as carnage stretches across Russia.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Post-Credit Scene – There are mid-credit sequences.

Disclosure – I paid to watch this film.

Sisu: A Finnish word that cannot be translated. It means the white-knuckled force of courage and unimaginable determination.

Sisu: Road to Revenge Review Introduction –

It is that time of year when I take a look back on 2025, and see all the films that I missed that I need to take a look at before I start my best of 2025 lists. I won’t get to all of them; there isn’t enough time. However, one film I knew I had to see was the follow-up to a Finnish gem from 2023. Sisu is one of the few films in the post-John Wick era that took the action style and improved on it. But can lightning strike twice?  


So, to set the scene, after WW2, Finland lost territory to the Soviet Union, and the Finns living there were forced to flee. In 1946, after finding all that gold in Lappland, Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila) returned to his home in Karelia, now on the wrong side of the border, to where his dead family once lived, hoping to take the house and rebuild it in a land of peace. But when Aatami crossed the border, his passport triggered a response in Soviet high command. The KGB (Richard Brake) tasks Igor Draganov (Stephen Lang), the man who killed Aatami’s family, to finish the job. But Aatami is a man who has left hundreds of Red Army and Nazi corpses in his wake, and he won’t go down without a fight.    

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