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Top 50 Action movies by average vote

note: for these charts, only votes from regular voters are considered.

Rank	Title
1	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) 8.9/10 (97660 votes)
2	Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.9/10 (30327 votes)
3	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 8.7/10 (152777 votes)
4	Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (130827 votes)
5	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 8.7/10 (110190 votes)
6	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.7/10 (28951 votes)
7	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.7/10 (100851 votes)
8	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (91291 votes)
9	Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.5/10 (62271 votes)
10	Matrix, The (1999) 8.4/10 (138560 votes)
11	Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (2004) 8.4/10 (1212 votes)
12	Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 8.4/10 (10047 votes)
13	Ran (1985) 8.4/10 (11352 votes)
14	Oldboy (2003) 8.3/10 (6039 votes)
15	Great Escape, The (1963) 8.3/10 (19202 votes)
16	Yojimbo (1961) 8.3/10 (8431 votes)
17	General, The (1927) 8.3/10 (7388 votes)
18	Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (96800 votes)
19	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.3/10 (61576 votes)
20	Aliens (1986) 8.2/10 (62587 votes)
21	Salaire de la peur, Le (1953) 8.2/10 (2587 votes)
22	Braveheart (1995) 8.2/10 (89039 votes)
23	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.2/10 (50501 votes)
24	Incredibles, The (2004) 8.2/10 (23030 votes)
25	Kumonosu jô (1957) 8.2/10 (2988 votes)
26	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.2/10 (41226 votes)
27	Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) 8.1/10 (7014 votes)
28	Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (19317 votes)
29	Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (73377 votes)
30	Ying xiong (2002) 8.1/10 (21786 votes)
31	Wild Bunch, The (1969) 8.1/10 (10644 votes)
32	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.1/10 (75837 votes)
33	Red River (1948) 8.1/10 (3677 votes)
34	Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (22100 votes)
35	Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (21205 votes)
36	Tasogare seibei (2002) 8.0/10 (1573 votes)
37	Stagecoach (1939) 8.0/10 (5387 votes)
38	Safety Last! (1923) 8.0/10 (696 votes)
39	Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986) 8.0/10 (4475 votes)
40	Platoon (1986) 8.0/10 (34120 votes)
41	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (80140 votes)
42	Spartacus (1960) 8.0/10 (16741 votes)
43	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 8.0/10 (60275 votes)
44	Die Hard (1988) 8.0/10 (57613 votes)
45	Kakushi toride no san akunin (1958) 7.9/10 (3098 votes)
46	Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 7.9/10 (8153 votes)
47	Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (89086 votes)
48	Die xue shuang xiong (1989) 7.9/10 (8853 votes)
49	Wu jian dao (2002) 7.9/10 (3483 votes)
50	Terminator, The (1984) 7.9/10 (58392 votes)

Bottom 10 Action movies

Rank	Title
10	Space Mutiny (1988) 1.8/10 (1694 votes)
9	Future War (1997) 1.7/10 (1486 votes)
8	Nemesis 4: Death Angel (1995) 1.7/10 (179 votes)
7	Riding with Death (1976) 1.7/10 (417 votes)
6	Taken Alive (1995) 1.6/10 (151 votes)
5	Intensive Care (1992) 1.6/10 (97 votes)
4	Fall (2000) 1.5/10 (243 votes)
3	Five the Hard Way (1969) 1.5/10 (271 votes)
2	Legend of the Rollerblade 7, The (1992) 1.3/10 (178 votes)
1	Pocket Ninjas (1997) 1.3/10 (132 votes)

The top movies report uses a weighted rank calculated as follows:

 weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C

 where:
  R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
  v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
  m = minimum votes required to be listed in the top 50
      (currently 200)
  C = the mean vote across the whole report
      (currently 6.9)