108. The Raid 2

After thoroughly enjoying the The Raid I was incredibly excited to launch myself into the The Raid 2 and oh lordy does it deliver!!

The most impressive thing about it is the sheer amount of ideas and creativity packed into a single fight scene. There is more here in a few seconds than most most Hollywood action flicks put into an entire franchise (I'm looking at you The Expendables)

Also good news for blood fans, the sequel is considerably more red and wet than the first instalment; So much so I kind of wanted one of the bad guys to just die, rather than suffer more limb gouging punishment.

92. Elysium

Why would you want to live on Elysium? Apart from the tanning machines that cure every disease known to man it looks pretty, pretty boring. It's just a big garden from what I could see. No shops, clubs and you can pretty much guarantee there isn't going to be a decent pub.

That said Elysium is a proper film that makes every punch count (of which there are many) and it's a snappy, spunky ride.

An 8 out of (and not as good as) District 9.

74. Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz is in the same camp as Kick Ass, due to the fact I enjoyed it far more the second time around. 

It has an amazing cast of Brit flick royalty and all the team are on top form; The only downer is the over reliance on the action scene references - particularly Point Break - lead it to feel a little derivative.

73. Taken

I think Taken is something of a modern action classic. Neeson is brilliant as CIA Dad with his 'I'll snap your neck as soon as look at you' attitude.

All the bad guys are suitably despicable and as Big Liam states in the films most iconic moment - he does find them and does kill them!

B-movie bliss all round.

67. Four Brothers

A case of it's so bad, it's almost good. Although the scummy goodness doesn't quite make it to the surface. It's just a piece of crap with one good action scene and it's morals firmly shoved up Mark Wahlbergs arse.

30. Haywire

Haywire is great fun. Just seeing Gina Carano kicking the faces open of half the Hollywood A list (okay B+ list) is a joy to behold.

The wife didn't agree ('This film has nothing of interest for me.') but I got some kind of semi-sadistic kick from the whole affair.

Hard to believe it's directed by Captain Soderbergh as it's straight to DVD B movie stock with an amazing cast and some beautiful cinematography.

Recommended.

I have also noticed that Carano will be appearing in Fast and the Furious 6. Hopefully she will be seen kicking Vin Diesel's jowls all over the shop. That would be just great! :-)

28. Iron Sky

I had a lot of goodwill towards Iron Sky before I'd even seen it. Much of that goodwill remains after seeing it although it does feel a bit Coming to America with Nazis at times...

You can't really fault the ambition of the whole project but the film really doesn't deliver like the film it should have been. It is much heavier on the comedy than I thought it was going to be and the whole ' Nazis coming back from the moon' never really got into full swing for me - far too many space battles for my liking, rather than head to head Nazi bashing.

Overall you should see this as it looks incredible, it's very enjoyable and it has Udo Kier in it!!! Also female lead Julia Dietze is par-tic-ularly hot :-)