Over the last nine decades, action films have been consistently popular among movie-goers. While not every action movie is a masterpiece, there are quite a few that can be considered high cinema.

Chow Yun-fat’s bullet ballet is reloaded and ready to fire again on the Croisette. In the film, a hard-boiled cop (Chow) who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers, goes on a mission to ...