THE BEST Action

Jason Statham plays a former ____ who somehow ends up rescuing a ____, pissing off the ____ in the process. Gunfight, car chase, 600 dead, killer lines, kissing scene, roll credits.

The first trailer for the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ sci-fi novel The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class) plays the heroine, teen-turned-gladiator Katniss Everdeen.

Corridor Digital whips out the really big guns for their latest action-packed clip. The POV shots might make you dizzy – especially if you go full-screen. Freddie Wong, you’ve got competition.

When a CIA-operated safe house is targeted by a group of bad guys, the facility’s house-sitter must carefully move the hidden criminal there to another secure location in Daniel Espinosa’s Safe House.

The defibrillator in the Battlefield games has to top our list of FPS gadgets which can both heal and kill. Here, the guys from CorridorDigital put the trusty lifesaving gadget through its paces, IRL.

The official trailer for Brad Bird’s MI:4 is out: the disavowed IMF is implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, and Ethan Hunt and his new team must go rogue to clear their organization’s name.

Here’s Naughty Dog’s official launch trailer for the gorgeous and thrilling Drake’s Deception, revealing key plot points and mysteries that set Nathan’s latest epic adventure in motion.

More is revealed in the second trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, as Holmes and Watson must contend with the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, Holmes’ evil, intellectual equal.

William Monahan’s London Boulevard stars Colin Farrell as a man newly released from prison who falls in love with a reclusive young movie star and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gangster.

Chris Pine and Tom Hardy play best friends turned mortal enemies when they fall for the same girl. They’re are also elite CIA operatives, which means their cock-blocking skills are a cut above the rest.

Marvel’s most awesome superheroes team up to pull the world back from the brink of disaster when an unexpected enemy threatens global security in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. Hurry up, May 2012.

Mark Wahlberg stars as a security guard with financial troubles who considers returning to his smuggling ways when someone offers a lucrative opportunity in Baltasar Kormákur’s Contraband.

This unbelievably-detailed Jean Reno figure comes with every accessory a contract assassin needs, as well as other props from the classic action flick. Natalie Portman action figure NOT sold separately.

After a plane crash, Liam Neeson finds himself lost in Alaska, struggling to survive and return home. En route, he takes on wolves with broken mini-bar bottles taped to his knuckles. You heard us right.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in this thriller about a New York bike messenger who gets caught up in a web of intrigue during what starts as a routine package delivery. In theaters 1/13/2012.

This visceral Indonesian film follows the story of a SWAT team trapped in a gritty tenement run by a vicious mobster and his army of thugs. The US release adds music by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.

Richard Gere stars as a retired CIA operative paired with a FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator’s murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin, in Michael Brandt’s The Double.

Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games tells the tale of teenage pawns who must fight with one another until one survivor remains, relying on raw instinct and making impossible choices. (Thanks Simon!)

Gunfire, explosions and tanks – what’s not to like? Check out the intense 64-player vehicle warfare – including jets – from this impressive Battlefield 3 multiplayer Caspian Border map. Looking good.

A young man must figure out a way to bring down a system where time is money – literally – and is forced to go on the run from a corrupt police force known as time keepers, in Andrew Niccol’s In Time.

Steven Soderbergh’s action-thriller follows the trail of Mallory Kane, a government security operative who uses her black-ops military training to kick the asses of the agency that unexpectedly betrays her.

The primates from Rise of the Planet of the Apes have a score to settle, and from the looks of this footage released for Comic-Con this week, they’re not going down without a major fight.

Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion is an action-thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak. Coming 9/2011.

WALL-E’s Andrew Stanton directs his first live-action film, the story of John Carter and his mysterious journey to the planet of Barsoom – the native word for “Mars” for the Martians living there.

D’Artagnan’s suave fighting is the least absurd thing in this trailer. Paul W.S. Anderson’s wild version of the classic tale is like Pirates of the Caribbean with less water and more mustaches.

If you haven’t seen the oddly ageless Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) very upset in a while, check him and his crew of rogue operatives out in this teaser for the latest MI installment, coming December 2011.