11 Best Action Movies of 2019 – Stream the Best Action Films of the Year – Esquire.com

At long last Marvel debuted its first film starring a female superhero in March of 2019. Brie Larson stars as Carol Danvers—an alien super-soldier who crash lands on earth just in time to team up with Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and help save the day.

Imagine if you could just figure out the one word it takes to be transformed into a superhero. In the case of 14-yaer-old Billy Batson, this word is “shazam!” Billy is a kid, so he uses these powers to have a lot of fun—until he has to fight real danger. The film opened up what will hopefully be a revamped DC universe in the coming years. Maybe.

This was the film action fans had been waiting for. It was all the Avengers, together in one final movie to fight Thanos, who previously wiped out half the population of every species in the galaxy. If you’re this writer, then you got pretty annoyed when your partner made you watch all the Avengers films before going to see Endgame. But it really was worth it.

In the third movie in this series, international hit man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has a $14 million-dollar bounty on his head. He’s used to this kind of dicey stuff, but this time, he’s lost the protective services of the High Table.

Godzilla battles other God-sized monsters, including Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Rodan. They battle for ultimate world supremacy, and you know, possibly destroy all of humanity. Oh, and Millie Bobby Brown is there, too.

Sophie Turner is Jean Grey, one of the X-Men’s own, who ends up being one of their greatest threats when she gets hit by a mysterious force. She then becomes so powerful that she’s not predictable, which is never what we want from a superhero. We hoped this would be a bit better than what it turned out to be, but Sophie Turner still delivers.

The Men in Black are now a global operation. Agent H (Chris Hemsworth) and rookie agent M (Tessa Thompson) have to save the world when aliens able to take the form of any human come to Earth.

Peter Parker goes on a school trip to Europe (lucky), but he’s a kid superhero, so he ends up having to save the world instead of going on a normal high school trip, like a regular teen. He teams up with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and fellow superhero Mysterio.

Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their roles as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw who team up to try to prevent cybernetically enhanced soldier Brixton Lorr (Idris Elba) from destroying the world. Three cheers to this line up of movies for managing to transform itself into a superhero franchise.

Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black, Awkwafina, and more star in this third film in the Jumanji franchise. This time, the game is fighting back harder than it has in the past (apparently giant mosquitoes in the 1995 film are nothing compared to what’s going on here).

Coming in just under the wire, Star Wars is making history (again) with its final installment. Early reviews are a bit of a mixed bag, but the final film is a bit of a love letter to fans doing them a service by giving them what they want… even if it might have been too much fan service.