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John Wick is one of those film that changed the film industry in a very visible way, which is also one of the million reasons to love the Keanu Reeves‘ action films. After John Wick came out there were many films that tried to replicate its action, simple story-telling, and thrilling entertainment and for all the Netflix subscribers we made a list of the best action movies like John Wick that are available on Netflix right now.

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Extraction is an action thriller film directed by Sam Hargrave from a screenplay by Joe Russo. The 2020 film follows Tyler, a ruthless mercenary with a tragic past as he accepts the job of rescuing an Indian crime lord’s teenage son from Bangladesh. But when he gets there he finds himself in an ambush and has to fight his way through.

Atlas is a sci-fi action thriller film directed by Brad Peyton from a screenplay by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite. The Netflix film follows the story of Atlas Shepherd, a brilliant but unsociable data analyst with a deep distrust for A.I. as she goes on a mission to capture a rogue robot that could destroy humanity but when the mission goes and her only hope to save humanity is to trust the robot, she must break down the walls she has built around her heart over the years. Atlas stars Jennifer Lopez in the lead role with Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Mark Strong, Abraham Popoola, and Lana Parrilla starring in supporting roles. If you loved the futuristic visuals, intense drama, and explosive action in Netflix’s Atlas here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, FandangoNOW, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Book Club (comedy; Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Andy Garcia, Don Johnson; rated PG-13) Tag Upgrade American Animals (thriller; Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner...

Borrowing heavily from Hardcore Henry, David Cronenberg, John Wick, and ’80s B-movies, Upgrade is the kind of picture where story takes a back seat to the thrills and kills. Directed by Saw series co-writer Leigh Whannell, the film delivers exactly what it sets out to, providing an ultra-violent and often fun camp thriller that stops just shy of potential cult classic status.

The set-up is simple enough: Grey (Logan Marshall-Green) is an old school auto mechanic rebuilding classic beauties in his garage while his wife Asha (Melanie Vallejo) drives a sleek automated pod that initially appears to have a better traffic safety record than those Teslas in autopilot mode. Like all things, they can be compromised, and after a date night the hacked car crashes in a shanty-town where, of course, Grey grew up. Asha is executed and he’s left for dead, forced to spent his life in a...

Something of an ‘80s throwback, Upgrade is a peculiar modernist Frankenstein tale. It’s generally more thrilling than chilling but a fun time-waster and is mostly recommended. Logan Marshall-Green stars as Grey Trace, a working-class mechanic in the near future who restores vintage muscle cars. He has no use for current trends in technology though his gorgeous wife Asha (Melanie Vallejo) is employed by a hi-tech corporation run by Eron (Harrison Gilbertson), a creepy Steve Jobs-type tech mogul. After a self-driving car malfunctions, the couple is ambushed by a gang of scary thugs who somehow shoot bullets out of their hands though they don’t appear to be carrying guns. The attack leaves Asha dead and Grey in a wheelchair, a quadriplegic thirsty for revenge. He agrees to sign on as a guinea pig for Eron’s experimental new computer chip called Stem, which is surgically attached to his...

By now, there shouldn’t be a horror fan reading this who isn’t familiar with the work of Leigh Whannell. Having previously penned films such as Saw, Insidious and Dead Silence, the screenwriter/actor has proven himself to be quite the asset for studios looking for bold new intellectual properties.

So, as was the case with Insidious: Chapter 3, he’s writing and directing the upcoming science fiction/action flick Upgrade, which I must admit is taking me by surprise. As you can imagine, I naturally thought this to be a horror movie upon first hearing that Whannell was behind it, but I’m pleasantly pleased that the footage I’ve thus far seen has defied my expectations.

In short, the picture “centers on Grey Trace, a technophobe in a utopian near-future when computers control nearly everything – from cars to crime-surveillance – who’s paralyzed in a freak mugging. But when...