All 4 Quentin Tarantino Action Movies, Ranked

A movie can certainly be violent without belonging to the action genre, and while that’s hopefully nice and obvious, there are a bunch of Quentin Tarantino films that demonstrate that fact. Namely, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, and The Hateful Eight, which are all pretty bloodthirsty at times, but don’t necessarily extend acts of violence and/or combat into long enough scenes for the movie as a whole to feel action-focused. And then there’s also Jackie Brown, which has very little violence, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is similarly restrained until one very violent (and impactful) scene near the very end. These six movies are not action movies, with Inglourious Basterds maybe coming the closest of this bunch? Still, though there are many bursts of violence in the film, there’s not really ever much of a focus on combat or battling in the physical sense. Take the famed basement scene, for example, which ends with a good many people dying, but has the build-up to that inevitable explosion being at the center; being what really matters.