Best Sci Fi Action Movies 2016
The xx All-time Sci-Fi Movies The 2010s Had To Offer
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The 20 Best Sci-Fi Movies The 2010s Had To Offering
As we look dorsum at the 2010s, it becomes immediately credible that it was a bully time for science fiction. Visual furnishings technology was quickly maturing and opening up new options for storytelling. New masters of the genre like Guillermo del Toro, Alex Garland, and Denis Villeneuve came to the forefront.
This list has something for anybody, from difficult about-future sci-fi and superhero stories to post-apocalyptic wastelands and intimate, otherworldly drama. The films enhance questions about artificial intelligence and climate change and play with the idea of time over and over.
These are the films that volition be iconic when we're looking back at the 2010s from the 2050s; right at present they're just killer science fiction, and every ane of these films is worth watching and rewatching.
20. The Martian (2015)
Ridley Scott's astronaut survival picture is sci-fi in its truest form; it imagines a almost future where we have the technology, budget, and brains to take people to Mars. Subsequently a windstorm seems to kill Damon'due south character Mark Watney, his team takes off without him--only to detect out that he'south quite alive. Watney has to survive with his combined ingenuity and limited resources and hope the government back home is willing to put the coin and manpower into bringing him home. Information technology speaks to the incredible training Astronauts go through before missions, and to the will of a man to survive in truly hopeless circumstances. Throughout the picture show, Scott never loses focus on how exacting both Watney and his rescue team must be, making for a tense movie from end to end that never dips into melodrama. Similarly, he never lets united states forget how cold, dangerous, and unforgiving Mars would be. For all of that, we'll forgive the film for birthing the line "I'm going to have to scientific discipline the s*** out of this."
19. Snowpiercer (2013)
Bell Joon Ho is all-time known for his stunning 2019 film Parasite, only one-half a decade earlier, he brought us Snowpiercer, a movie virtually an endlessly-circling train on an Earth ravaged by climatic change. It'southward one of the few sci-fi films that feels truly original cheers to this simple premise. The forward-moving nature of a railroad train makes both for really interesting fights and a narrative that feels unstoppable. It has things to say about grade warfare, climate alter, and revolution, simply isn't afraid to give u.s. great activity along the mode--the fight scene between the rebels and the axe-wielding soldiers partway through stands out in particular equally a sit-in that Bong is as comfy with big ideas, minimalist sets, and exciting activeness.
xviii. Inception (2010)
Are you still thinking virtually the spinning top? We are. So often when we talk well-nigh a movie using dream logic, it's virtually how hazy and weird David Lynch films are. Christopher Nolan, even so, is no David Lynch. He'south precise nigh to a fault. Inception is what y'all get if y'all accept that dream logic and filter a heist movie through it. It has all the precision of a heist flick and all the weirdness of a dream. This movie hit theaters hot on the heels of The Dark Knight and Batman Begins, and information technology was hard to imagine Nolan declining. This is a gorgeous film that is as engaging as information technology is technically impressive, and it still holds up 12 years later.
17. Looper (2012)
This tightly-fabricated sci-fi flick flew under the radar for many people, only information technology'south part of what helped bring director Rian Johnson into prominence and in charge of a Star Wars movie. Looper takes some big, loftier-level concepts--time travel and telekinesis--and treats them every bit a fact of life in an otherwise pretty normal near-futurity globe. We see signs of science fiction here and at that place--transparent cell phones that are just handheld squares, trucks with solar panels and external wiring, a floating bicycle. The story itself is easy to make sense of thematically, even when the fourth dimension travel shenanigans go a piffling confusing; this is a movie about perpetuating and ending a cycle of violence. Joseph Gordon Levitt's graphic symbol is part of the cycle, but in closing his own loop in the film's terminal moments, he ends the bike. The Bruce Willis makeup he wears through the whole moving-picture show is still a picayune unsettling, merely Gordon-Levitt deserves major kudos for working then hard to emulate Willis' little ticks and facial expressions.
16. Dredd (2012)
Dredd is the perfect example of a tight, fun, pulpy B motion picture that knows exactly what information technology is and is ready to accept fun with itself. Judge Dredd got a bad rap when Sylvester Stallone took on the part in the 1990s, only give Karl Urban brings us a perfect accommodation of the grapheme that's a smash to watch. Urban has proven himself to exist a blast to spotter in roles like Butcher on The Boys, and he plays Judge Dredd with egoless enthusiasm; not in one case throughout the pic'southward runtime does Dredd's helmet come off. His acting is all from the nose down. Dredd is a guy who believes equally in the the brutality and accolade of his job. He comes up against Lena Headey'due south gang leader Ma-Ma--a role that hit simply every bit Game of Thrones' Cersei was becoming everyone's favorite character to detest. Ma-Ma is ruthless and cruel, and Headey isn't so much chewing scenery as she is fierce off whole chunks of it with her teeth. The pic puts those ii into a locked tower full of goons, action setpieces, and creative visual furnishings that brand the film a nail to watch. In both 2012 and today, information technology feels more prescient than fantastical.
15. Attack the Block (2011)
Some of the best sci-fi movies have very local, private stakes. Attack the Block isn't concerned with the world, with all of England, or even all of London. It cares about ane belfry cake and its residents. Moses (John Boyega, Star Wars The Force Awakens) and his friends make a hobby out of robbing people and making trouble. I dark, while robbing a nurse named Sam (Jodie Whittaker, Doctor Who), something smashes through a auto: a small, toothy, and seemingly feral alien fauna. The boys hunt information technology down and kill it, but presently find themselves besieged by bigger, meaner-looking ones with glowing green teeth. The boys' fight for survival feels at times like a Spielberg adventure, and the story highlights the daily struggle they experience living in a housing project in south London, from targeting by cops to recruitment by local gang bosses. Information technology'south like shooting fish in a barrel to see how this film led straight to John Boyega existence cast in Star Wars films (and then being all but abandoned by the scripts of the second and third films).
14. Bumblebee (2018)
To those of us who grew upwards with the Transformers, Michael Bay's films await and experience similar an affront to our tastes. Fifty-fifty if the stories are no more or less silly, they experience as much similar endless spinning gears as they await. The centre of the Transformers is missing, replaced with complicated nonsensical plots meant for international audiences to swallow--ideally without the need for subtitles. Bumblebee, however, brought things back around in all the best ways. It swapped out the end of the world for an intimate story about a girl and her rad yellow beetle. Hailee Steinfeld is a child in the 1980s who accidentally ends up the possessor of a transforming car that helps her work through her fears and grow into herself. The movie is equally full of centre as we remember the Transformers beingness, and managed to find a visual happy medium betwixt the chaotic metal of Bay's movies and the toy-selling visuals of the cartoons.
13. Edge of Tomorrow/Live Die Echo (2013)
Whatsoever name you want to call this movie, Edge of Tomorrow came and went at the box office and has been largely forgotten by the audition. Give it a second await, though. This picture is an activity-packed sci-fi story that not merely gives u.s.a. the deep pleasure of seeing Tom Cruise die over and over again, but information technology turns Emily Blunt into a bona fide activity hero and gives us, arguably, the best video game movie withal, despite not being based on a video game. Tom Cruise'southward character is a PR guy for the armed services but ends upwardly killed and covered in alien broth virtually immediately when he'southward sent out into the field, trapping him in a fourth dimension loop. What is a video game about if not dying over and over to salvage the globe? This moving picture is about banging your head confronting a tough state of affairs and overcoming it with the help of an ally. That "Border of Tomorrow" title may sound like it was pulled out of a marketing hat, but this movie is absolutely worth a look fifty-fifty if Tom Cruise drives you bonkers.
12. Pacific Rim (2013)
Guillermo del Toro's Kaiju feature Pacific Rim is nothing short of a love letter to Japanese Kaiju, mecha, and sentai heroes. In just over ii hours, Del Toro paints u.s.a. a earth both nether siege past and evolving on the backs of giant monsters from the sea. We meet dozens of colorful characters and their twin-pilot mechs, the scientists who written report the Kaiju, and the criminal underworld that traffics in the disasters their battles leave behind. Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, and Idris Elba all work hard to make this earth vibrant and fun. Information technology's like power rangers for grown-ups, but without taking it away from the kids that helped make it popular. It'southward besides totally different from anything else del Toro has done earlier or since, making information technology stand out in his ain filmography as well every bit in greater scientific discipline fiction.
11. Her (2013)
Falling in love with a sexy cyborg is an enduring fantasy in popular culture, all the way dorsum to one of the earliest sci-fi films, Urban center, and appearing in every off-shoot of sci-fi. Remember Futurama'southward Lucy Liu-bot? In Spike Jonze'due south Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, a man who falls in love with an operating system congenital to fulfill a user's every need. Voiced by Scarlett Johansson, Samantha is an AI that learns and grows with feel. As the romance between the two grows, the motion picture asks the viewer to look at how we interface with technology and how information technology affects our relationships with people around united states of america. Eventually, it brings us to the logical endpoint of developing an bodily general artificial intelligence (hint: information technology's not apocalyptic state of war). It's a touching motion-picture show that tries to reconcile the human demand for interaction and the isolating furnishings of technology.
10. Blackness Panther (2018)
Black Panther stands out from the remainder of the MCU by taking the states into Blackness Panther'southward home nation of Wakanda. Here, we see scientific discipline fiction inspired past decades of afro-futurist literature and art, brought to life on the big screen. While some of the visual effects are admittedly pretty unimpressive, that's about the only thing virtually Black Panther that doesn't work. Wakanda is a bright, vivid place that should await like a paradise to anyone looking in. Michael B. Jordan and the tardily Chadwick Boseman brought Killmonger and T'Challa to life with a depth rarely afforded to Marvel characters. Killmonger had an undeniable point despite the violence of his crusade, and that forced T'Challa to examine Wakanda's past and future and to face direct the experience of Black people outside of the fairytale wonderland of Wakanda. It'due south the rare Curiosity film that manages to both highlight existent-globe issues in a real way and get introspective, while also plumbing equipment snugly into the MCU canon as 1 of its stronger entries.
nine. Annihilation (2018)
At the nexus of scientific discipline fiction, fantasy, and horror lies the genre called "new weird," a genre of storytelling that delves into the metaphysical and unexplainable, wondering almost what lies beyond our understanding of science--and how terrifying it might be. Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy is 1 of the best-known examples of New Weird. Alex Garland brought the kickoff volume in the trilogy, Anything, to life in his movie of the aforementioned name. Capturing the unknowable on such an objective medium equally motion picture is a alpine task, but Garland did an admirable job with this film, taking the team of women beyond the Shimmer and into an increasingly weird world where life doesn't obey the standard rules. While the film struggles with pacing at times, the gorgeous visuals and mystery make information technology more than worth the journeying.
8. Inflow (2016)
Telling a story about changing perception of time is anything but easy in a linear format like film, but Arrival might be my favorite instance (alongside the HBO'due south Watchmen episode A God Walks Into Abar). Denis Villeneuve's talent for massive, stark shots helps give us one of the few examples of extraterrestrial beings that aren't merely people in makeup. They feel incomprehensibly huge--and just plain incomprehensible--but we can believe past the end that Amy Adams' character has come to truly understand them, uncoupling herself from the human perception of time in the procedure. Information technology's a tough trick to pull off, but male child does it work.
7. Ex Machina (2014)
With Ex Machina, director Alex Garland gives us what might exist the ultimate Turing test, congenital on manipulation, betrayal, and lies told to and by an AI. Of class, it's not quite that simple. This is a complex story about what makes humans human, what makes united states of america intelligent, and how we treat each other. The main cast of characters is played by Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, and Alicia Vikander, and throughout the movie, each of these characters attempts to manipulate both of the others to their ain ends. The ending of the film is the very definition of F*** Around and Discover Out, and information technology's the kind of chilling ending that sticks with you lot long after the credits whorl. All the main performances are first-class, but Vikander's stands out. Conscientious utilize of CGI and a perfectly balanced performance from her combine to make her entirely believable every bit a robot quickly figuring out how humans operate. Alex Garland's list of films and goggle box is relatively short, but every one of them is remarkable, and Ex Machina is no different.
half-dozen. Under the Skin (2013)
What would it look like if David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive) directed a moving-picture show by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation)? Under the Peel would exist pretty close. Directed past Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) and starring Scarlett Johansson, the film follows an unnamed woman who seeks out lonely men, luring them into a blackness void. Every bit she seeks out prey, though, she has more than and more human being experiences--only for that humanity to exist brutally stripped away. The moving-picture show has a dream-like quality; long wordless sequences, filled with silence or the haunting soundtrack. Dialogue is awkward, every bit it would be between an otherworldly fauna and a man asunder from his own surroundings. Johansson brings an alien strangeness to her character; she seems confused or upset by her ain torso as if isn't sure where her body ends and she begins. Compared to her role in Her, Johansson'southward performance is almost entirely physical, and it's unquestionably i of her near memorable.
5. Pitiful to Bother You (2018)
Pitiful to Bother You doesn't expect similar science fiction at kickoff chroma, but information technology's at that place. This is a movie near the modernistic view of labor and labor movements in American lodge, well-nigh workers finding success for themselves at the expense of others, and finally about the logical endpoint of allowing ourselves to become willing cogs in the machines of megacorporations that are far too large to care most our safety and happiness. When things plow in the third act, it's incommunicable to miss where the story is going, but it's worth sticking around for.
4. Shape of Water (2017)
If Pacific Rim was del Toro'due south biggest moving picture in terms of scale, Shape of H2o is one of his near intimate. After movies like Bract Two, Hellboy II, and Pan'due south Labyrinth, Shape of Water feels more similar his 2001 picture Devil'south Backbone. The stakes are extremely personal despite what they imply most the world around the characters. The mute Elisa works equally a cleaner in a top-secret government facility, where she discovers that the American government has captured a humanoid amphibian akin to the Animate being from the Blackness Lagoon. A sci-fi romance turns into a harrowing escape. Without speaking a word, the two main characters persuade us of their intense bond, helping del Toro to take home his outset Academy Award for Best Pic.
3. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
There are a few movies like Blade Runner on this list--sequels that shouldn't work. Blade Runner was an incredible standalone picture that flopped when information technology hit theaters in 1982. 35 years later, the same affair happened again: Blade Runner 2049 hitting theaters and struggled at the box part. But like its predecessor, it's a triumph of atmosphere, updating the original cyberpunk neo-noir story successfully against all odds. It necessarily treads similar ground--replicants volition always be at the centre of Bract Runner stories, even though they're ostensibly pretty rare in the actual Los Angeles of the future. Despite that, it finds its own ground both visually and thematically, focusing on the truth of memories and questions almost what it means to exist alive and sentient. Meanwhile, managing director Denis Villeneuve'due south talent for creating huge, desolate visual landscapes makes the story feel very different. It's only as beautiful as Ridley Scott's picture, but the two won't be mistaken for each other. Both movies are nearly how pocket-sized their characters are, only the enormousness of their environs couldn't be more dissimilar. Blade Runner 2049 shouldn't work, but it does.
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
George Miller basically codified leather daddy and mail-apocalyptic imagery all at one time with the starting time three Mad Max films. Then he made Babe: A Pig in the City, Lorenzo'due south Oil, and Happy Feet. He returned to Max'south world in his 70s with Fury Route and fabricated the about energetic, visceral, and satisfying action movie in years. He constitute a new take on Max in Tom Hardy, centered the motion-picture show on Charlize Theron's Furiosa, and found a new enemy, without us doubting for fifty-fifty a 2d that we were watching Mad Max. The science fiction in Mad Max Fury Road is mostly in the apocalypse referenced effectually the edges, but it's there in the stilt-walking people in the swamps, the plastic breathing apparatuses that Immortan Joe and his body-architect son wear, and the style people talk near water, bullets, and guzzoline (gasoline). For a movie virtually people who go out into an empty desert and turn effectually to become home, Max is an engaging movie with energy that would exhaust someone half Miller'south historic period.
ane. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Few superheroes have as many movies as Spider-Man, but for as much as nosotros've enjoyed the Habitation trilogy, this animated characteristic is the best of Spider-Human being. It sounds like a disaster: a agglomeration of Spider-Persons from different universes all come together to fight Kingpin. Simply what we get instead is, somehow, every part of the Spider-Man feel, all at in one case, and none of it feels like it's being done a disservice. Spider-Man fights to the death, watches his matrimony fall apart, mourns a lost friend, and finds a Rubik'southward Cube--and those are all different Spiders. Peter Parker lets united states of america run across Spider-Man in a fight to the death--what information technology looks like when Spider-Human truly fails. New Spider-Homo Miles Morales holds the grouping together and gives us a coming-of-age origin story for Spider-Man filtered through the eyes and experiences of a young Black man. The writers know what we know about the Spider-Man mythos and happily play fast and loose with information technology in a manner that welcomes both new and onetime Spider-Homo fans. There isn't another picture that looks like Spider-Verse; it's an instant classic and a genuine work of animated art, with eye and sense of humour to spare.
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