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Welcome to the official website for Ubisoft, creator of Assassin's Creed, Just Dance, Tom Clancy's video game series, Rayman, Far Cry, Watch Dogs and many others. A peek into the celluloid past: The 20 classic films every child should watch to understand the history of cinema. By Kerry Mcqueeney Updated: 16:55 EST, 26 December 2011. Get the latest entertainment news, celebrity interviews and pop culture pulse on movies, TV and music and more at ABCNews.com. The 2. 5 best female action stars in modern cinema It seems like you can’t go a few weeks online without someone doing an article on the dearth of female- fronted action movies, or the preconceived notion that action films with female leads don’t do well at the box office, or something about Rocket Racoon getting to the big screen before Wonder Woman. We’re not going to do that here, because that’s boring and overplayed. To be honest, we just want to talk about how great Michelle Yeoh is. Instead, here’s a completely scientific and one hundred percent accurate list of the best female action stars in the history of modern cinema. I’m taking into account the amount of . The methodology produces some surprising results and your feedback is welcomed, but anything that gets people watching more Cynthia Rothrock and Maggie Cheung films is always worthwhile. HONOURABLE MENTION: Jennifer Lawrence. Okay, so I’m saying this now, because it’ll come up in the comments. I don’t consider The Hunger Games action films so J- Law doesn’t get a place on this list. They’re good films and she’s the best thing in them, but I don’t really think of them as action films in the same way I don’t really think of Star Wars or CGI- heavy superhero movies as action films – at least not in the tradition Commando/Die Hard/Lethal Weapon mode. Feel free to disagree. She can definitely be a badass – let alone Katniss Everdeen, check out Winter’s Bone where she basically plays Marv from Sin City in a teenage girl’s body – but she’s not made a straight action film. If it were up to me, next time Hollywood tries to reboot Donald Westlake’s Parker novels I’d cast Lawrence as a gender- swapped version of the character. She’ll probably keep making Oscar winning films with acclaimed directors. But that’s her loss.). Milla Jovovich. Key Films: Ultraviolet, the Resident Evil films (sigh)I’m somewhat loath to include Jovovich, if I’m honest. The success of the Resident Evil films is often pointed out as successful female- lead action films, and that’s a good thing in theory, but man, those movies are just horrid. They figure the idea of a supermodel in a cocktail dress shooting zombies is enough to cover the unfollowable mess of CGI and nonsensical post- apocalyptic ramblings. She pips Kate Beckinsale (star of the equally awful Underworld films) to the bottom spot by virtue of the third act of The Fifth Element and also by appearing in Kurt Wimmer’s Ultraviolet, which isn’t . Rhona Mitra. Key Film: Doomsday. Rhona Mitra first snared nerd affection with the dubious honour of being the . She also stood in for Kate Beckinsale for one of those god- awful Underworld movies. The main source of my love for Mitra though comes from Neil Marshall’s bonkers post- apocalyptic flick Doomsday, which basically just takes every 8. Marshall liked and mashes them together in some sort of not entirely successful, but very delicious, stew. Mitra plays a female Snake Plissken, but with a special robot eye under her eye patch that she can take out and use to see around corners. She then ends up fighting a medieval Malcolm Mc. Dowell, and apocalyptic savages who listen to Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Sharni Vinson. Key Films: You’re Next, Bait. Okay, this is just a speculative one to be honest, but bear with me. Australian born Vinson is basically just waiting to be cast in some mid- budget exploitation flick. You probably saw her last year in Adam Wingard’s fantastic You’re Next, where she went from scream queen to unstoppable survivalist killer at the drop of a hat and turned the film into an ultraviolent remake of Home Alone. She also proved she’s got the physicality for action roles in the fantastic (no, really) Step Up 3, and even defended a flooded supermarket from a shark in the delightfully insane Bait. Seriously, someone give Luc Besson this lady's number. Brigitte Nielsen. Key Films: Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Beverly Hills Cop 2. Six foot Dane Brigitte Nielsen hit the ground running with her debut role as Red Sonja, the sword wielding siren from Conan creator Robert E. Howard, who was basically, well, a female Conan. Arnie even reprised his role as the original clobbering Cimmerian in the film. After roles in other notable 8. Cobra, Rocky IV and Beverly Hills Cop 2, she faded into B- movie purgatory and eventually reality TV hell. She’s back, however, in this year’s Mercenaries, an all- female Expendables knock- off from The Asylum alongside Kristanna Loken, Vivica A. Fox, Cynthia Rothrock and Zo. Sigourney Weaver. Key Film: Aliens. Why so low? Because really and truly she’s only ever starred in one true action film. Alien is a straight horror movie that happens to be in space, Alien. Sigourney totally kills it in James Cameron’s big space marine shoot- em- up, but that’s only one entry in her whole filmography. I considered not even including her, but decided against leaving out probably the most iconic female badass in Western cinema. However, when you compare her body of work to some of the others on this list, she objectively can’t really go any higher. Uma Thurman. Key Films: Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2. Uma Thurman’s action credentials only really come down to one thing: Kill Bill. Sure, she’s been in a handful of other stuff (The Avengers, Paycheck, er, Batman & Robin), but none of those are anything to write home about. Yet Kill Bill is such a kaleidoscope of different influences and sub- genres that in just that one (two?) film she managed to star in an incredible samurai movie, wuxia film, Spaghetti Western and modern day martial arts flick all at the same time. Linda Hamilton. Key Films: Terminator 2, Black Moon Rising, Dante’s Peak. In the first Terminator, Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor is little more than a damsel in distress. So it’s a testament to just how damn good Terminator 2 is that it flips her role completely. In the same way that Arnie took a 1. Hamilton goes from scream queen to badass. The Connor of Terminator 2 is quite possibly the greatest flawed heroine in the history of cinema – she’s tough dangerous, clever but also deeply scarred. And underneath all this she’s ultimately motivated by being a mother. It’s the role Hamilton was born to play, but sadly she hasn’t really transferred that action persona into that many other films. She’s definitely been in some fun stuff, like Dante’s Peak, Black Moon Rising, King Kong Lives and an Asylum movie about a giant squid. She’s loads better than Kristanna Loken, anyway. Devon Aoki. Key Films: 2 Fast 2 Furious, DOA: Dead Or Alive, Sin City. The daughter of a legendary Japanese wrestler and sister of EDM superstar Steve Aoki, the former model made memorable appearances in a host of genre movies in the early 2. She was in 2 Fast 2 Furious, the batshit crazy videogame adaptation DOA: Dead Or Alive, and appeared alongside Jet Li and The Statham in (the admittedly rather dull) War. She was also great as the silent killer Miho in Sin City. She hasn’t been in anything since 2. A rumoured role in Arrow never came to anything, but it would be great to see her pop up in a Fast & Furious sequel, as it seems everyone comes back to those films eventually. Lucy Liu. Key Films: Kill Bill Vol. The Man With The Iron Fists, Charlie’s Angels. Lucy Liu has balanced roles of a reasonable profile with a lot of fun performances in a bunch of action flicks. The most high profile is obviously Charlie’s Angels, a strangely brilliantly unrefined crystallisation of Mc. G’s id that critics hate for some reason, but she also made adequate foil for Jackie Chan in Shanghai Noon, was a great evil dominatrix in Payback, a Yakuza boss in Kill Bill and a fighting Madam in RZA’s underrated Shaw Brothers homage The Man With The Iron Fists. We won’t mention Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever though. Zhang Ziyi. Key films: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, The Grandmaster, House Of Flying Daggers. After being plucked from obscurity for Zhang Yimou’s critically acclaimed The Road Home, the young Zhang Ziyi was offered one of the three main leads (alongside Hong Kong action all- stars Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh) in Ang Lee’s arthouse kung fu epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. After that film’s crossover success, she became the go- to- girl for any respectable Chinese director wanting to make an accessible martial arts flicks – appearing in Yimou’s Hero and House Of Flying Daggers, Wong Kar- wai’s The Grandmaster and even John Woo’s upcoming The Crossing. She was also a villainess in Rush Hour 2, but she lost a fight to Chris Tucker in that. Maggie QKey Films: Mission: Impossible III, Live Free Or Die Hard, Nikita (TV series)Born in Hawaii to the less cool- sounding real name of Margaret Denise Quigley, an international modelling career led to Maggie Q making a name for herself in late- period Hong Kong action films like Gen- Y Cops, and the, er, delightful sounding Naked Weapon. After coming back to the States she’s established herself as a dependable female badass, appearing in supporting roles in Mission: Impossible III, Die Hard 4 and the Divergent series, as well as snagging the lead in the rebooted Nikita TV series (based on Luc Besson’s 1. She’s the sort of B- level actor who’s never going to star in anything bigger but it’s always fun to see her turn up in things. Angelina Jolie. Key Films: Tomb Raider series, Salt, Wanted. Angelina Jolie is essentially the female version of one of those big Hollywood stars, like Ben Affleck or Will Smith, who’ve made plenty of big budget action romps, but their defining works are far away from the genre. It’s a type of filmmaking that’s slowly going away as superhero movies without big names make more money than star vehicles, which is a shame as Jolie is rather good at it. She’s never truly made a classic – her action vehicles are competent but forgettable (the Tomb Raider films, Salt), or occasionally interesting but ropey (Wanted), but she’s an old school, capital- M Movie Star who is easily capable of carrying whatever old claptrap she’s thrown into.
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