Rebel Ridge and 4 Other Best Action Movies of 2024 With High Rotten Tomatoes Scores
Stories of xenomorphs, giant reptiles, and fighters against injustice.
In the world of cinema, there are movies that literally make your heart beat faster, filling you with extreme emotions and unparalleled dynamics.
Action movies are a genre that can take us through a whirlwind of danger and bring adrenaline into our everyday lives.
1. Monkey Man, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%
The main character, nicknamed Kid, loses fixed bouts in underground fights, appearing in a monkey mask. But his main goal in life is different: he wants to take revenge on the people who made him an orphan. But to get close to the elite, he first has to get a job in a restaurant.
Dev Patel's movie has been promoted as the Indian John Wick. But the movies have completely different principles and subtexts: Monkey Man also shows the stratification of classes in the country and other cultural subtleties.
2. Alien: Romulus, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%
Orphan Rain tries to get permission to leave a mining colony planet run by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. After another refusal, she, her friends, and her android escape to an abandoned ship they find in orbit.
Once there, the characters see that it is a research station. Only all the workers have been killed by xenomorphs.
The creator of the thriller Don't Breathe, Fede Alvarez, shot the new part of Alien as close as possible to the original films of the franchise. It is again the story of ordinary people who found themselves in a confined space with monsters.
3. Rebel Ridge, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%
Former military man Terry Richmond rushes to the town of Shelby Springs to post bail for his relative, who is being transferred to another prison. However, the man is detained by the police, who take his money under a far-fetched pretext.
Realizing that there is no legal way to get his money back, Terry decides to take matters into his own hands.
Speaking of classic action movies, the director of Green Room Jeremy Saulnier has released the most impressive film of the year. At the same time, the main character seems as peaceful as possible: Terry tries to solve the problem calmly to the end and does not kill anyone.
4. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
Kong has gone into the depths of the hollow earth and guards his territory there. And on the surface, Godzilla battles evil monsters.
The members of the Monarch Organization, who are watching over them, pick up a strange signal from the depths of the planet. It seems that someone is calling for defenders as the Earth is threatened by a new danger.
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
Young Furiosa is kidnapped by Dementus' biker gang to learn the location of the fertile Green Place. But she doesn't reveal the secret, and the villains end up in the Citadel, ruled by Immortan Joe. Furiosa stays with the tyrant, and years later decides to take revenge on her captor.
In 2015, the Mad Max franchise returned with a new installment, Fury Road, which became one of the best action films of the decade. Furiosa loses to its predecessor in terms of action, but it expands the world of the franchise.