The Best Action Movies & TV Shows New To Streaming In February

Although he's most known these days for shepherding the DC Extended Universe to the big screen, Zack Snyder made a name for himself back in the aughts with this stylish adaptation of Frank Miller's seminal graphic novel.

Although it received mixed reviews from critics and made a respectable but far from record-breaking haul at the box office, this eye-popping visual effects extravaganza has gained a fiercely loyal following online since its release.

Season 2 of the Netflix sci-fi series replaces Season 1 lead Joel Kinnaman with Marvel star Anthony Mackie, still as the character Takeshi Kovacs, but retains the same central premise: in the far future, the human mind can be recorded onto a "stack" that can be placed in any interchangeable, disposable "sleeve."

With Daniel Craig's fifth and final James Bond adventure No Time To Die coming out next month, now is the perfect time to revisit his first outing as 007. Its sequel, Quantum Of Solace, and the original 1967 version of Casino Royale (starring David Niven as the iconic spy), are also available to stream on HBO Now.

Suicide Squad may have been a mess, but it copied a tried-and-true formula most famously used in this classic actioner: a bunch of hardened prisoners are recruited for an impossible suicide mission (in this case, a mission to assassinate a number of high-ranking Nazi officers during WWII) with the promise of a pardon if they pull it off… and live.

Clint Eastwood would go on to play Inspector Harry Callahan — perhaps his most iconic role — throughout five films. But this 1971 original is the one that started it all, and is the origin of one of the most oft-misquoted movie lines of all time: "Do you feel lucky, punk?" (Stream it to find out what the real line actually is.)

This low-budget film — part pulse-pounding actioner and part searing metaphor for apartheid — was so acclaimed upon its release in 2009 that it nabbed a rare Best Picture nomination for a sci-fi movie.

Adapted from a popular 1960s TV series of the same name, this movie stars Harrison Ford as a man wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife, hot on the trail of the mysterious one-armed man who actually did the deed — and Tommy Lee Jones in an Oscar-winning role as the marshal pursuing him.

This Will Smith movie probably came out a bit ahead of its time, serving as a deconstruction of the superhero mythos the same year superhero movies were just starting to break into the mainstream thanks to Iron Man. Though it's been forgotten now, it might have seemed less off-putting and more subversive if it had come out 10 years later.

This new Amazon series stars Al Pacino as the leader of a gang of Nazi hunters tasked with assassinating Third Reich fugitives in 1970s New York; the rest of the stacked ensemble cast includes Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Jerrika Hinton (Grey's Anatomy), Carol Kane (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Lena Olin (Alias), and more.

Fresh off her double Oscar nominations for Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit is the perfect time to revisit this 2005 Scarlett Johansson vehicle in which she co-stars alongside Ewan McGregor as two beautiful people struggling to escape a dystopian community in which everything is not what it seems.

This cult classic parody of action flicks stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the protagonist of a popular movie franchise who teams up with a fan who gets sucked into his fictional world via a magical ticket stub. Fun fact: the film stars Game of Thrones baddie Charles Dance (aka Tywin Lannister) as the villain.

Five years before he broke into "respectable" Oscar-worthy movies with his financial crisis comedy The Big Short, Adam McKay re-teamed with frequent collaborator Will Ferrell for this action-comedy about two less-than-stellar cops who become the unexpected stars of the story when the precinct's two hot shots (played in cameos by Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson) die hilarious, tragic deaths.

When a damaged spaceship transporting highly dangerous prisoners is forced to crash land on a desert planet and the crew and passengers are attacked by bloodthirsty aliens, their only hope may be hardened criminal Riddick, played by Vin Diesel.

Thirteen years before the character got his own TV show on Netflix, this Marvel antihero was brought to the big screen in a version starring Thomas Jane as the skull-clad vigilante. The film also features John Travolta giving a bizarro performance as a villainous mafia boss.

Director Paul Verhoeven has made some truly eclectic films throughout his career, from the derided Showgirls to the notorious Basic Instinct to the Oscar-nominated Elle. This 1997 satire, misunderstood upon its release, has gained the acclaim and respect it deserves in the two decades since.

Before he jumped into hyperspace to go to a galaxy far, far away, J.J. Abrams made this 2011 monster movie, an homage to Spielbergian family-friendly creature features of yore. Featuring a likable cast of youngsters and a misunderstood monster, you can think of this movie as Stranger Things before Stranger Things was cool.

Forget Salvation, Genysis, and Dark Fate; action movies don't get any more iconic than this classic 1984 original featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his most legendary role. The equally acclaimed sequel, Judgment Day, is also available to stream on Showtime.