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Movies that feel like Hard Target (1993)

If you loved Hard Target, the closest films we have are Hard Boiled (1992), The Transporter (2002) and Police Story 2 (1988). All three share Hard Target's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Criterion Channel, YouTube TV and HBO Max Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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πŸ… 63% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. John Wookinetictensegritty

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Hard Boiled
1992 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.7action Β· thriller Β· crime

John Woo working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

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The Transporter
2002 Β· dir. Corey Yuen
πŸ… 53%β˜… 6.8action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both circle martial arts and organized crime

Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.

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Police Story 2
1988 Β· dir. Jackie Chan
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Showdown sits at the heart of each

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

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Con Air
1997 Β· dir. Simon West
πŸ… 59%β˜… 6.9action Β· thriller Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: psychopath

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the β€œworst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as β€œpure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind β€” genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

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Transporter 2
2005 Β· dir. Louis Leterrier
β˜… 6.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Both keep circling back to martial arts

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

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2 Fast 2 Furious
2003 Β· dir. John Singleton
πŸ… 37%β˜… 5.9action Β· crime Β· thriller

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

It's a major double-cross when former police officer Brian O'Conner teams up with his ex-con buddy Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of "dirty" money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone. But the guys are actually working with undercover agent Monica Fuentes to bring Verone down.

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Point Break
1991 Β· dir. Kathryn Bigelow
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Action with a pulse of grit, in both cases

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
2006 Β· dir. Justin Lin
πŸ… 37%β˜… 6.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Sean gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 Β· dir. Quentin Tarantino
πŸ… 84%β˜… 8action Β· crime Β· thriller

Showdown is the engine of both

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

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Lethal Weapon
1987 Β· dir. Richard Donner
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.6action Β· thriller Β· crime

Tense crime in both cases

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.

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Ong-Bak
2003 Β· dir. Prachya Pinkaew
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both trade on grit more than on being action

When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.

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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013 Β· dir. Isaac Florentine
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.1action Β· crime Β· thriller

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2010s show

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.

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