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Those looking for a big night with the best Netflix action movies have come to the right place. From comedy to sci-fi and even more heartwarming drama, Netflix’s selection of action movies is so vast that there’s something for everyone, even if you don’t usually watch them very often.

Let’s discover the best Netflix action movies to enjoy in this month.

1. The Old Guard

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 81%

Just as Ryan Coogler crafted “Black Panther” as an entry in his own directorial universe, Gina Prince-Bythewood casts her Netflix superhero film, “The Old Guard” in her own stylistic image. The director of “Love and Basketball,” “The Secret Life of Bees,” and “Beyond the Lights” enjoys scenes where her characters get all up in their feelings, and she invites you to climb in there with them. These are some introspective characters, a by-product of their having lived for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Several times, the camera lingers on their faces as they contemplate, or remember, the sadness of losing someone. The film sits patiently with these moments, putting the same level of importance on the characters and their emotions as it does on the action. A scene of Andy (Charlize Theron) savoring a piece of baklava carries the same weight as a scene of her cleaving a foe with a gigantic battle ax.

Though it contains more dramatic sequences than most superhero movies, “The Old Guard” doesn’t scrimp on the good, old-fashioned violence. Combat scenes are filmed so you can see who’s doing what, and edited together for maximum carnage and effect by Prince-Bythewood’s usual editor, Terilyn A. Shropshire. Shropshire is a favorite of directors like Kasi Lemmons and, as seen in her work in the first episode of Ava DuVernay's “When They See Us,” she’s very good at alternating between intimate drama and the much wider scope of action, keeping both speeds in balance. The cinematography by Barry Ackroyd and Tami Reiker is also quite good; their sequences at night and inside rooms have the same richness as their brightly lit outdoor shots of France and the desert.

"The Old Guard” has the benefit of not carrying the strict, fan-driven baggage of the Marvel and DC movies. As a result, it may not get the attention it deserves. But this is an excellent example of what this type of film can be.

2. Extraction

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 67%

Extraction is a made-for-Netflix action thriller from veterans of the Marvel Comic Universe – screenwriter Joe Russo, stunt-specialist-turned-director Sam Hargrave and star Chris Hemsworth. It’s based on the graphic novel Ciudad (which Russo co-authored), transferring the action from the Paraguayan city of Ciudad Del Este to Dhaka in Bangladesh.

Extraction is a little bit hokey and absurd, and the very end has an exasperating cop-out – but it has to be admitted that, in terms of pure action octane, Russo and Hargrave bring the noise, and there are quite a few long-distance “sniper” scenes in which people get taken out from miles away as the bullet travels through their skulls with a resonant thoonk.

Hemsworth is the improbably named Tyler Rake, a super-tough mercenary soldier and legendary warrior, secretly sad and lonely. When the school-age son of Mumbai crime lord Ovi Mahajan (Pankaj Tripathi) is kidnapped by rival Bangladeshi mobster Amir Asif (Priyanshu Painyuli), Tyler is hired for a staggering sum of money to go in to Dhaka – all guns blazing and combat knives stabbing – to get the kid back. Extract him, in fact. But when he does, Tyler realises that he is being double-crossed all over the shop and he finds that the only human being he quite likes is Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal), the terrified boy now under his protection.

3. The Decline

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%

Originally in French, this features fine performances from an unfamiliar cast, stark snowbound locales and strong violence, often when you least expect it.

First up we meet Antoine (Guillaume Laurin), who wakes up his wife and young daughter in the dead of night in one of many rehearsals for what he thinks is the impending end of civilisation (the French title Jusqu’au Déclin literally means ‘Until The Decline’). They’re ready to evacuate in the event of a nuclear attack or epidemic, but Antoine wants to learn more and arranges to spend several days at a secret isolated training camp run by star survivalist Alain (Réal Bossé).

Alain has quite a set-up, featuring cabins, a greenhouse, a generator, solar panels and more, and on the first night Antoine mixes with guests including former military types Rachel (Marie-Evelyne Lessard) and David (Marc Beaupré), and pro hunter Sebastien (Guillaume Cyr), while Alain loftily talks of being a “lucid citizen”. However, the next day an exercise involving a pipe bomb leads to an accidental death, and soon Alain and his henchman turn on them, with the plot transforming into a powerfully suspenseful variation on that creaky old favourite, The Most Dangerous Game.

4. How It Ends

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 66%

How It Ends is an American action thriller movie directed by David M. Rosenthal, written by Brooks McLaren, and starring Theo James, Forest Whitaker, Grace Dove, Nicole Ari Parker, Kat Graham, and Mark O'Brien. This movie has premiered on Netflix on July 13, 2018.

Many of the best action movies are set during an apocalypse, and that's where we're at in How It ends. The world may be ending, but Will (Theo James) is desperate to get home to his pregnant wife Sam (Kat Graham). There's just one issue: she's thousands of miles away. To get back to her, he'll have to navigate his way through fires, violent shoot-outs, and life-threatening injuries. If you're into doomsday dramas, this is a good one to add to your list.

5. Sand Castle

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 47%

Perhaps hoping to quash any expectations that this is a fun family-friendly movie about beach holidays, Sand Castle opens brutally and to the point. In an arid military outpost just outside of Iraq, we meet US Army Private Matt Ocre (Nicholas Hoult). “I don’t belong here,” he says in voiceover, “and I’m ashamed.” Then he promptly slams his own hand repeatedly in a car door, a self-imposed injury in an effort to get sent home. Unsurprisingly, it’s about as effective a ploy as Edmund Blackadder sticking a pencil up his nose and saying, “Wibble.”

The character of Ocre is loosely based on the real-life experiences of screenwriter Chris Roessner, who signed up to the Army Reserves two months before 9/11, never expecting to actually have to go to war. Hoult sells both how unsuited he is to the life he’s signed up for, and the knot of dread he’s feeling in the pit of his stomach. This is a war-movie type we’ve seen before, most obviously in All Quiet On The Western Front: a quiet, thoughtful beta male, attempting to make sense of a thoughtless conflict while surrounded by chest-puffing alphas.

Still, despite the sense of over-familiarity, there remains a perfectly competent war movie lurking underneath. Director Fernando Coimbra seems more confident filming battles over bartering, and wrings decent tension from a couple of fierce set-pieces: an early scene sketches the initial Baghdad invasion with a breathless tracking shot; elsewhere, a roadside ambush conveys the sense of immense stress felt in any war zone where traditional rules of engagement don’t apply.

6. Outlaw King

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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 62%

David Mackenzie’s retelling of the Robert the Bruce story for Netflix is bold and watchable, with a spectacular final battle scene shot with flair by the cinematographer Barry Ackroyd. Here is the legendary defiance shown by the great 14th-century Scottish insurrectionary, defying the hated English king and fighting a shrewd guerrilla war, luring enemy forces deeply and wearyingly north, while progressively amassing his own support, and then securing a historic victory.

Mackenzie has abolished the infamous moment when Robert, hiding out in a cave, is supposedly inspired by the persistence of a spider climbing up its web. The film prefers to plunge us into the familiar zero sum Game of Thrones territory: a violent all-or-nothing grab for power in a world of beards, smocks, priests with weird pudding-bowl fringes and tonsures, smoky outdoor fires, stray clucking chickens and great roistering feasts at which rulers and their queens exchange murmuringly significant remarks at the high table.

This is an efficient and watchable film, concluding with Robert’s resounding and historic defeat of the English and establishing independence, although the titles flashed up at the end are a bit sheepish about the apparent abandoning of this for the Acts of Union 400 years later. “That’s another story,” they announce.

7. Okja

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%

"Okja" is the heartwarming tale of a girl and her giant mutant pig, brought to life through a mix of digital effects and puppetry that makes a nonexistent beast seem as real as E.T. or King Kong. It is also the tale of animal rights activists doing battle with a Monsanto-like corporation that wants to turn said pig, allegedly the cutest in a batch whipped up by genetic scientists, into a poster animal for a revolutionary line of meat products. These two modes might seem incompatible. But as overseen by the great South Korean director Bong Joon-ho ("Snowpiercer," "The Host"), they mesh in a work of melancholy enchantment, by turns sweet, funny, scary, sad, and—in the manner of all good science fiction movies—thought-provoking.

The ambitious screenplay includes discussions of corporate responsibility, the ethics of meat consumption, the acceptable threshold of animal cruelty, and other matters that you might not expect to see find in a film so simply told and lavishly produced. Is it a kids' movie? Every parent's mileage will vary. Without getting into too many plot specifics right off the bat, it should be said that Bong and his co-writer, Jon Ronson—a journalist, filmmaker and social critic who wrote The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and So You've Been Publicly Shamed—have made a film that lots of little kids will want to see but that not too many will be able to handle.

8. Lost Bullet

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%

Directed by first-timer Guillaume Pierret and starring former stuntman Alban Lenoir, who’s credited as co-writer and “artistic collaborator,” Lost Bullet is the kind of film you initially dismiss based on its title, pitch and obnoxious Netflix homepage (including a bullet hole shattering half its title). But then you’re left pleasantly surprised.

Perhaps that’s because the bar has been set so low, but that wouldn’t be giving enough credit to Pierret and Lenoir, who keep things moving in fast and furiously gritty ways, with endless twists, beatings, chases, crashes and chunks of welded steel that transform average automobiles into Mad Max-style battering rams.

Writer-director Guillaume Pierret’s premise has enough opportunities for a thrilling and fast-paced execution and he utilises them efficiently. Just like its cars, the narrative runs at a breakneck speed, but it’s not reckless. The story is simple and well-explained through its key characters. The multiple car chase scenes are especially thrilling and authentic in their execution. They feature novel ideas to ram, blow up and topple the cars. Watch out for some of the collisions and impact scenes that look painfully real and chilling.

9. Hold The Dark

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 70%

In an early scene in director Jeremy Saulnier’s new film, Hold the Dark, we see pack of wolves feasting on a carcass. It’s shot from a slight distance so little is discernible from the mess of blood and guts, warm and stark against the Alaskan snow. It’s only later that we’re told the wolves had been eating one of their own; a pup, in fact.

This is rare, Russell tells us. Russell is a retired naturalist, who’d been tasked with tracking down the wolves; he’s played by Jeffrey Wright. We learn that wolves are known to sacrifice their pups when the survival of the pride is at stake. Russell says this almost reverentially. He believes that this is the natural order of things, and, “The natural order doesn’t warrant revenge.”

Hold the Dark is the latest film by Saulnier, a blazingly natural filmmaker whose stark plots reveal us to be the easily corruptible souls that we are. You might have seen his exceptional revenge drama, Blue Ruin, or his claustrophobic spin on the torture porn genre, Green Room, in which he had the bright idea of casting Sir Patrick Stewart as the leader of a Neo-Nazi gang of skinheads. He’s directing multiple episodes of the third season of HBO’s True Detective next, and based simply on his mastery of tone and command over his characters, he’s the perfect man for the job. Hold the Dark wrestles with some of the same themes that the first season of True Detective did - man vs nature, vengeance and nihilism.

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