Subtlety? Who needs it?

Let’s look at 3 of the craziest, most overblown and wonderfully over-the-top action movies.

If you need action and you need it big, loud and ridiculous, you’ve come to the right place.

Crank

Now here’s a movie that should need no introduction, but here’s the rundown just in case. Jason Statham plays an assassin who gets dosed with a rare poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops below a certain point. Not one to take this lying down, Statham sets out to find the antidote, engaging in various high-octane action on the way to keep his heart racing. This means that once the film gets going, it really never stops until the credits roll. Jason Statham is no stranger to insane action, and this one even tops the heights previously hit by movies like The Transporter 2.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

The first instalment of Quentin Tarantino’s blood-soaked revenge epic is definitely the more over-the-top of the two, with Uma Thurman’s Bride slashing her way through more gang members than we care to count. The film’s show-stopping sword battle is full of so much carnage that the MPAA demanded that the scene be altered, and Tarantino pulled out an old trick used by vintage martial arts shows: have the scene play out in black-and-white in order to downplay the massive amount of bloodshed. But even in classy black-and-white, this has to be one of the goriest, most over-the-top and most awesome sword fight scenes in movie history.

Commando

Without a doubt the cheesiest, most over-the-top, most absolutely bonkers action movie in the Governator’s repertoire, this 1985 action spectacular distills everything we love about the action movie legend into one film. After his daughter is kidnapped, Arnold’s former Black Ops soldier launches a one man war against a band of South American criminals. What follows is a solid 90 minutes of ridiculous action and some of the finest one liners ever to be uttered in an action movie. It’s like the Platonic ideal of what an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is, the purest expression of ’80s action movie cheese, and definitely the most over-the-top action movie of all time.

What’s your pick for the craziest action flick of all?