Whether intimate, using a big-budget or meticulously choreographed, several action sequences from the 21st century have thrilled moviegoers and reflected the best of what the action genre can offer .

Action movies are usually enjoyed for the limits of imagination. Yet occasionally, in the name of thrill, producers abandon high-speed car chases, defying-gravity stunts, and fiery shootouts that test ...

For the HALO (high altitude low opening) jump sequence in "Fallout," not only did Cruise really fall out of a plane traveling 165 miles per hour at a height of 25,000 feet, but he did it over 100 ...

How Extraction 2’s director shot a 21-minute action sequence — and was blown off a train “It’s like a play. You are seeing this all take place in real time.” ...

"All the sequences were difficult to shoot," says Forster, "but the end sequence, for me, was the scariest. The actors were in the real fire, and the smoke and the heatÉI was on the edge of my seat." ...

And therein lies the secret of the 1982 film’s most heart-stopping action sequence. Well, that and the fact we’d never seen the like before. You know the scene; it’s iconic.