Mapping out your movie calendar for 2025? Allow us to step in and do the job for you. As we build towards the new year, here's your essential round-up of next year's action movie releases.
Be sure to return to this post for regular updates to the film slate.
- Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning (released May 21st, 2025)
- From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (released June 6th, 2025)
- F1 (released June 27th, 2025)
- Jurassic World Rebirth (released July 2nd, 2025)
- Nobody 2 (released August 15th, 2025)
- Tron: Ares (released October 10th, 2025)
- Mortal Kombat 2 (released October 24th, 2025)
- Predator: Badlands (released November 7th, 2025)
- The Running Man (released November 21st, 2025)
- Avatar: Fire and Ash (released December 19th, 2025)
1. Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Tom 'Cardio' Cruise sprints to victory again (we're assuming) in the eighth instalment of the nail-biting Mission: Impossible franchise. In 2023, the epically entertaining Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 bolted together a host of jaw-dropping set pieces including that infamous motorbike/cliff face-off that had audiences worldwide holding their breath.
Now, we get the follow-up as Cruise's daredevil IMF agent Ethan Hunt confronts the evil Gabriel (Esai Morales) in pursuit of the mysterious, all-powerful A.I. known as the Entity. Christopher McQuarrie is back behind the camera, the locations span the globe from London to the Arctic and the teeming support cast showcases a host of new and returning faces. Expect Hayley Atwell's Grace and Simon Pegg's Benji Dunn to once again step forward as valuable allies in this sure-to-be-jaw-dropping behemoth.
2. From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
Keanu Reeves steps aside, sort of, for this action-packed extension of the hit John Wick universe. Step forward No Time To Die scene-stealer Ana de Armas who is looking for a new, bullet-ridden franchise to call her own. Based on the Ballerina trailer, she's killed it. De Armas plays the ballet-dancer-turned-assassin Eve who struts her stuff in neon strobe lighting while executing all and sundry with fearsome panache.
Rest assured, Reeves' signature character makes a key appearance as does Ian McShane's wry Continental Hotel manager Winston.
3. F1
Brad Pitt is in pole position in the new movie from the Top Gun: Maverick team of Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer. Can they do for cars what the hit Top Gun sequel did for jets? This slick, big-budget racing drama was lensed at the cradle of British motor racing, Silverstone, and casts Pitt as a washed-up F1 driver who sees his chance at redemption. It comes, of course, through utter gear-shifting, tyre-burning grift. Damson Idris, Kerry Condon and Javier Bardem round out the cast.
4. Jurassic World Rebirth
The blockbusting Jurassic Park series was initiated in 1993 by Steven Spielberg, working from Michael Crichton's source novel, and it then birthed the Jurassic World spin-off series that ran from 2015 to 2022. Rogue One and The Creator helmer Gareth Edwards, like Spielberg a filmmaker renowned for his sense of physical scale, takes the helm of the latest movie, Jurassic World Rebirth.
Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey are the famous names attempting to both preserve and outrun our fearsome prehistoric ancestors.
5. Nobody 2
In 2021, Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk emerged as an unlikely action hero in the back-to-basics thriller Nobody. We all remember that bruising and utterly brilliant bus fight that made expert use of a confined location and improvised weaponry. Odenkirk's unassuming family man in disguise is now back to wreak more havoc on those who have wronged him. What small vehicular spaces can he battle in this time – maybe a Smart Car? That would be something to see.
6. Tron: Ares
The world of The Grid, a state-of-the-art computer system, opens once again in the third Tron movie. Released in 1982, the original Tron starred Jeff Bridges and was regarded as a conceptual landmark in its use of rudimentary graphics. This begot a sequel, Tron: Legacy, which was released in 2010 after a long delay. Jared Leto now takes the lead in the third movie, Tron Ares, which comes from Pirates of the Caribbean 5 helmer Joachim Ronning. Leto plays the eponymous computer program Ares who escapes from the digital world into the real world, an inversion of the usual Tron storyline.
7. Mortal Kombat 2
Are you a Mortal Kombat fan? Then get over here! It may not be feeling toasty given we're in the middle of winter, but this sequel to the hit 2021 video game reboot is promising all kinds of splatter and nostalgic throwbacks to the classic video game franchise.
8. Predator: Badlands
2022's Predator spin-off Prey, directed by Dan Trachtenberg, was a surprise: the best Predator film since the classic 1987 original. Taking place on the 18th-century American Great Plains, it brought us the blood-soaked story of a young Comanche woman who went up against the most fearsome killer in the whole universe. Sequel Predator: Badlands is again helmed by Trachtenberg and although details are currently thin on the ground, it's said to star Maleficent actor Elle Fanning.
9. The Running Man
Forget the cheesy Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle from 1987. This new iteration of The Running Man, which comes from Cornetto Trilogy helmer Edgar Wright, is returning to the gritty and provocative source novel by Richard Bachman (a pen name for the renowned Stephen King). In Wright's famously inventive and energetic hands, this dystopian story of a futuristic battle to the death should have satire, mordant humour and arresting action aplenty.
10. Avatar: Fire and Ash
2022's Avatar: The Way of Water cemented director James Cameron as the king of the world, some 13 years after the release of the first Avatar (2009) and some 25 years after the release of Titanic. The Avatar mythology expands even further in the third instalment which opens up new corners of the remarkable planet Pandora and the ongoing battle between the Indigenous Na'vi and the exploitative human colonists. The story once again centres on Sam Worthington's Jake Sully and Zoe Saldaña's Neytiri with Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet and Stephen Lang all set to reprise their roles from the previous films.
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