Action movies for tired brains from the 2010s. Includes Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Raid 2, Ready Player One and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Not everything needs to be a project. Sometimes a film should just carry you.
The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.
A film for tired brains isn't a lesser film. It just knows what you need tonight.
Easy to follow. Mostly visual. Good for distracted watching.
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is... not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way.
Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.
Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.
When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.
This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
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