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Agreed. One of my favorite film Ad campaigns featured the slogan... "If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones." I always thought that was a great summation of what the Raider's franchise was all about. - Walter.

Not sure it fits the category, but the car chase sequence is reason enough to make it worth consideration. Everyone talks about Bullitt and The French Connection but I'd put that chase in The Seven-Ups against either of those films. (Of course Bill Hickman was the common element in those three...

Because most of the films I've listed have other elements outside the action genre, most notably Science FIction. The Revenant is an adventure / survival / character study film so I don't know if it is disqualified, but action is a secondary or sub-genre for that particular film. I don't know...

In light of the clarification by the OP, scratch most of my films. :) I will throw out one other selection that has some really well choreographed action sequences... John Woo's Hard Boiled from 1992. - Walter.

John raises an interesting point about the art of filmmaking as it informs the question. I do believe a few of the choices already fit that criteria to some degree (excellence in filmmaking for certain) but I'll list a few others that I think have some 'depth' and strong action elements. The...

The first film that came to mind was Terminator 2: Judgement Day, but I guess it depends upon if films that mix genres, such as SF, fit the mold of greatest 'Action' films. If they do, then I would also mention The Matrix. The use of 'bullet time' alone puts it in the running, to my mind...