Mini-Movie Madness Intro: The 4 Action Actor Regions

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Today, SAW’s Mini-Movie Madness Tournament to determine the Greatest Action Movie Actor of All Time will begin, as one of many exciting articles and content planned for Action Month!

To vote, check out the bracket, and more, click here. For a breakdown of the 32 actors competing for the title of Greatest Action Movie Actor, keep reading for a rundown of each region’s participants.

Schwarzenegger Region

(1) Arnold Schwarzenegger

Best Known Action Movies: Conan the Barbarian, Commando, Predator, The Running Man, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Last Action Hero

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(2) Tom Cruise

Best Known Action Movies: Top Gun, Mission: Impossible (franchise), Days of Thunder, Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, Minority Report

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(3) Michelle Yeoh

Best Known Action Movies: Police Story 3: Supercop, Supercop 2, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Heroic Trio, Tomorrow Never Dies

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(4) Liam Neeson

Best Known Action Movies: Taken (franchise), The A-Team, The Grey, Non-Stop, The Commuter, Cold Pursuit, Honest Thief, The Marksman, The Ice Road, Memory, Absolution

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(5) Matt Damon

Best Known Action Movies: Bourne (franchise), Elysium, Green Zone, The Adjustment Bureau, The Last Duel, The Great Wall

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(6) Jason Statham

Best Known Action Movies: The Transporter, The Italian Job, Revolver, Crank, Death Race, The Expendables (franchise), Parker, Fast & Furious (franchise), The Beekeeper

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(7) Charles Bronson

Best Known Action Movies: Death Wish (franchise), Love and Bullets, The Evil That Men Do, Murphy’s Law, Assassination, Messenger of Death

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(8) Scott Adkins

Best Known Action Movies: The Bourne Ultimatum, Assassination Games, The Expendables 2, Zero Tolerance, Hard Target 2, Ip Man 4: The Finale, John Wick: Chapter 4

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Willis Region

(1) Bruce Willis

Best Known Action Movies: Die Hard (franchise), The Expendables (franchise), Hudson Hawk, Last Man Standing, 16 Blocks, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Death Wish, Detective Knight (franchise)

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(2) Harrison Ford

Best Known Action Movies: Indiana Jones (franchise), Patriot Games, The Fugitive, Clear and Present Danger, Air Force One, Cowboys & Aliens

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(3) Jean-Claude Van Damme

Best Known Action Movies: Bloodsport, Double Impact, Universal Soldier, Nowhere to Run, Hard Target, Timecop, Street Fighter

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(4) Nicolas Cage

Best Known Action Movies: The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off, Gone in 60 Seconds, National Treasure (franchise), Kick-Ass, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

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(5) Samuel L. Jackson

Best Known Action Movies: Patriot Games, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Shaft (franchise), XXX (franchise), S.W.A.T., Snakes on a Plane

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(6) Donnie Yen

Best Known Action Movies: Iron Monkey, Blade II, Seven Swords, Ip Man (franchise), John Wick: Chapter 4, The Prosecutor

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(7) Gerard Butler

Best Known Action Movies: 300, The Bounty Hunter, Has Fallen (franchise), Den of Thieves, Copshop, Plane

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(8) Michael Jai White

Best Known Action Movies: Black Dynamite, Dragged Across Concrete, S.W.A.T.: Under Siege, Triple Threat, Universal Soldier: The Return

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Stallone Region

(1) Sylvester Stallone

Best Known Action Movies: Rambo (franchise), Nighthawks, Cobra, Tango & Cash, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, The Expendables (franchise)

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(2) Keanu Reeves

Best Known Action Movies: Point Break, Speed, The Matrix (franchise), John Wick (franchise), Johnny Mnemonic, 47 Ronin

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(3) Wesley Snipes

Best Known Action Movies: Demolition Man, Blade (franchise), Boiling Point, Armed Response, Gallowwalkers, Passenger 57, The Expendables 3

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(4) Mel Gibson

Best Known Action Movies: Mad Max (franchise), Lethal Weapon (franchise), Braveheart, Payback, Fatman, The Expendables 3

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(5) Denzel Washington

Best Known Action Movies: Déjà Vu, The Equalizer (franchise), 2 Guns, The Magnificent Seven, Crimson Tide

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(6) Sean Connery

Best Known Action Movies: James Bond (franchise), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Rock, Highlander, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Hunt for Red October

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(7) Sigourney Weaver

Best Known Action Movies: Aliens, Abduction, Chappie, The Cold Light of Day

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(8) Jet Li

Best Known Action Movies: Fist of Legend, Hero, Once Upon a Time in China II, Fong Sai-yuk, Lethal Weapon 4, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Expendables (franchise)

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Chan Region

(1) Jackie Chan

Best Known Action Movies: Drunken Master, Police Story (franchise), Rumble in the Bronx, Shanghai Noon, Rush Hour (franchise), The Foreigner

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(2) Clint Eastwood

Best Known Action Movies: Dirty Harry (franchise), The Man With No Name (franchise), The Eiger Sanction, The Enforcer, The Gauntlet, Tightrope, The Rookie

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(3) Bruce Lee

Best Known Action Movies: Enter the Dragon, Game of Death, Fist of Fury, The Big Boss, The Way of the Dragon

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(4) Chuck Norris

Best Known Action Movies: Lone Wolf McQuade, Missing in Action (franchise), Code of Silence, Invasion U.S.A., The Expendables 2

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(5) Steven Seagal

Best Known Action Movies: Under Siege, Hard to Kill, Above the Law, Marked for Death, Out for Justice

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(6) Dwayne Johnson

Best Known Action Movies: The Scorpion King, The Rundown, Walking Tall, Fast & Furious (franchise), G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Snitch, Skyscraper

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(7) Dolph Lundgren

Best Known Action Movies: Red Scorpion, The Punisher, Universal Soldier, Johnny Mnemonic, The Shooter, The Expendables (franchise)

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(8) Vin Diesel

Best Known Action Movies: Fast & Furious (franchise), XXX (franchise), Riddick (franchise), A Man Apart, Knockaround Guys, The Last Witch Hunter

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Thoughts on this group of action icons? Who do you want to see win the whole thing?