John Woo breaks into our list with the stunningly choreographed Hard Boiled (or Lat Sau San Taam). It's a suave endeavor with all the visual flair that have since become John Woo hallmarks. While it's tough at times to follow the action and take in the subtitles, the film is endlessly entertaining and contains one of our favorite drink inventions, the tequila slammer. Chow Yun-Fat slays as the clarinet-playing police officer, aptly named Tequila, whose partner is killed in a restaurant gunfight with a small army of gangsters. Who doesn't love an action sequence with a gun-toting man carrying a baby?

Before we get to the number 1 pick, here's a few action films that just narrowly got left on the cutting room floor:

Desperado

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Air Force One

Con Air

Rush Hour

And the number 1 action film of the 90s is...