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Action Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
12 action films in our catalog have at least 10,000 IMDb votes and a score that is higher with critics than with audiences by 15 points or more. The widest gap: Dragonball Evolution (2009), 2.5 on IMDb against 45 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dragonball Evolution '2009 | Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 2.5 | 14% | 45 | 2.9 | James Wong | -20 |
| 2 | The French Connection '1971 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.6 | 97% | 94 | 7.5 | William Friedkin | -18 |
| 3 | The Adventures of Robin Hood '1938 | Romance / Action | 7.9 | 100% | 97 | 7.5 | William Keighley | -18 |
| 4 | Shadow in the Cloud '2021 | Horror / Action / War | 5.0 | 77% | 66 | 5.8 | Roseanne Liang | -16 |
| 5 | Dunkirk '2017 | War / Action | 7.8 | 92% | 94 | 7.5 | Christopher Nolan | -16 |
| 6 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi '2017 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 91% | 84 | 6.7 | Rian Johnson | -16 |
| 7 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon '2000 | Romance / Drama / Action | 7.8 | 96% | 94 | 7.4 | Ang Lee | -16 |
| 8 | Assault on Precinct 13 '1976 | Thriller / Action / Crime | 7.3 | 94% | 89 | 7.3 | John Carpenter | -16 |
| 9 | Black Panther '2018 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 96% | 88 | 7.4 | Ryan Coogler | -15 |
| 10 | Superman II '1980 | Sci-Fi / Action | 6.8 | 88% | 83 | 6.7 | Richard Lester | -15 |
| 11 | Ran '1985 | Action / Drama | 8.2 | 96% | 97 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa | -15 |
| 12 | Foreign Correspondent '1940 | Thriller / Mystery / Action | 7.4 | 95% | 89 | 7.0 | Alfred Hitchcock | -15 |
Gap is IMDb score times 10 minus Metacritic score, in points. Only films with at least 10,000 IMDb votes and both scores are included, and only gaps of 15 points or more. This list is ordered by the size of the gap, not by quality. Scores shown are the raw ones.
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