10 Most Thrilling Action Movies of the '90s, Ranked

The 1980s were foundational for the action genre in film. The boom era established or solidified many of the tropes still associated with the genre today. Franchise fever hit the genre in the 1980s, and everyone's favorite action heroes were landing film after film. The bombastic fight sequences, vehicle crashes, and one-man-army action heroes popularized in the decade inspired a new generation of filmmakers to up the ante in the 1990s.