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The year is still young, but Hulu has already added one of the best action movies of 2025 to its streaming lineup.
Predator: Badlands outperformed all expectations when it hit theaters last fall, and it’s already proven to be a streaming hit on Hulu as well.
But if you prefer your action more down to earth, Ben Affleck‘s The Accountant has returned to Hulu this month.
You can find both of these films among the complete lineup of the Watch With Us team’s roundup of the great action movies on Hulu.
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‘Predator: Badlands’ (2025)
Before Predator: Badlands, the titular creatures were always the villains of their own franchise. This film flips the script by placing a young Predator named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) in the leading role. Dek’s father, Njohrr (Reuben de Jong), believes that his son is weak and deserves to be put down for the good of the clan.
Rather than submit to certain death, Dek embarks on the hunt of a lifetime to prove his worth. What he soon finds is an entire world that’s weaponized against outsiders. Dek’s lone ally is Thia (Elle Fanning), a damaged Weyland-Yutani Corporation synthetic who wants to reunite with her android sister, Tessa (Fanning). Thia and Dek have common ground, but their goals may not be mutually beneficial.
Predator: Badlands is streaming on Hulu.
‘The Accountant’ (2016)
The Accountant places Ben Affleck in the role of Christian Wolff, an autistic accountant whose gift for numbers is prized in the criminal underworld. His services are almost exclusively used by corrupt companies to uncook their books and detect any theft. For his latest job, Christian works alongside Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick) and uncovers embezzlement that adds up to billions of dollars.
When someone tries to silence Christian and Dana, he puts his father’s military training to good use. And while the odds are stacked against him, Christian can also call upon his older brother, Braxton (Jon Bernthal), who kicks even more ass than he does.
The Accountant is streaming on Hulu.
‘The Mummy’ (1999)
Brendan Fraser channeled Indiana Jones in the most successful reboot of The Mummy to date. Fraser plays Rick O’Connell, a rogue treasure hunter who is hired by Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) to help her find a priceless artifact in Egypt during the 1920s.
Rival treasure hunters beat them to the punch and accidentally unleash Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), an Egyptian priest who was mummified alive centuries before. Imhotep awakens with supernatural powers and a mistaken belief that Evelyn is his beloved. If Rick can’t get this mummy under control, then the entire world will fall to his dark designs.
The Mummy is streaming on Hulu.
‘Red’ (2010)
For the purposes of this movie, “RED” stands for Retired, Extremely Dangerous. That’s an apt description for Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), an ex-CIA agent whose only joy in retirement is getting to talk to call center employee Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker).
When Frank is marked for death by his former employer, he kidnaps Sarah to keep her from being harmed and recruits his old friends for help. Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) and Victoria Winslow (Helen Mirren) may be old, but Frank couldn’t ask for a better group to watch his back.
Red is streaming on Hulu.
‘Taken’ (2008)
Nearly two decades of Liam Neeson kicking ass in action movies began in Taken, and it reinvigorated his career. Neeson plays Bryan Mills, a former CIA officer who now works as a bodyguard. Bryan is somewhat estranged from his ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen), and their daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace).
But when Kim is cornered by human traffickers in Europe, her dad is the first and only call she makes. As Bryan helpfully explains to his targets, he’s got a particularly deadly set of skills, and he’s going to use them to follow Kim’s trail before he loses her forever.
Taken is streaming on Hulu.
‘Plane’ (2023)
Gerard Butler plays against type in Plane, which places him in the role of an ordinary commercial airliner pilot, Brodie Torrance. Through skill and a fair amount of luck, Brodie was successfully able to make an emergency landing on a remote island in the Philippines.
The plane’s presence hasn’t gone unnoticed as militant groups stage attempts to claim it for themselves while ransoming the hostages. Brodie may get a crash course in fighting rebels from Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter), a prisoner accused of murder who was a passenger on his plane. But Brodie has no choice but to trust Louis, because there’s no one else to turn to.
Plane is streaming on Hulu.
‘Predator’ (1987)
Predator‘s reputation has considerably grown after 38 years, which is why it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t always viewed as a classic action movie. It was a modest hit at best during its initial release, and Arnold Schwarzenegger hadn’t reached full Hollywood stardom.
The good news for action fans is that Predator really holds up well. Schwarzenegger plays Alan “Dutch” Schaefer, the leader of a paramilitary unit that was sent to South America under false pretenses. Now, Dutch’s team is under attack by an otherworldly creature whose technology and ruthlessness far exceed their own. And this Predator (Kevin Peter Hall) is picking them off one by one.
Predator is streaming on Hulu.
‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ (2014)
Director Matthew Vaughn comes close to recapturing some of the over-the-top aspects of ’60s spy films in the action comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service. Taron Egerton stars as Gary “Eggsy” Unwin, a young man who never had the chance to live up to his potential.
Harry Hart (Colin Firth) decides to change that when he recruits Eggsy to become part of Kingsman, an elite intelligence organization that operates outside the British government. Samuel L. Jackson costars as a mad billionaire, Richmond Valentine, who is going full Bond villain with his plan to remake the world. Valentine is so effective at picking his allies that even Kingsman is compromised as Earth teeters towards armageddon.
Kingsman: The Secret Service is streaming on Hulu.
‘The Amateur’ (2025)
The leading character of The Amateur is about as far from a traditional action hero as you can get. Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is just a normal guy who works for the CIA as a cryptographer. He was also happily married to Sarah Heller (Rachel Brosnahan) until she was murdered by terrorists.
Charlie’s desire for revenge is so great that he blackmails his boss at the CIA, Alex Moore (Holt McCallany), to give him the training he needs to target the men who killed his wife. Robert “Hendo” Henderson (Laurence Fishburne) gives Charlie some guidance, but this is a path that he may not be able to come back from.
The Amateur is streaming on Hulu.
‘Uncharted’ (2022)
Many of Uncharted’s best action scenes were directly lifted from the video games that inspired the film. Unsurprisingly, those sequences work really well in live-action blockbusters like this one. The MCU’s Spider-Man, Tom Holland, stars as Nathan Drake, an orphan who is recruited by treasure hunter Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) with the promise of a potential fortune and a lead in tracking down Nate’s missing brother, Sam (Rudy Pankow).
Nate and Sully soon find themselves in a race to beat millionaire Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas) to the treasure of a lifetime. There’s a team of mercenaries under Santiago’s command, and they’re more than willing to kill Nate and Sully if they stand between them and the treasure.
Uncharted is streaming on Hulu.
‘Bullet Train’ (2022)
Even among action comedies, Bullet Train is uncommonly funny. A lot of the credit for that has to go to Brad Pitt’s hysterical performance as an aging assassin codenamed Ladybug. He’s had enough killing for one lifetime, but he’s stuck on a super-fast bullet train in Japan with several other assassins — some of whom really want Ladybug dead.
The irony is that Ladybug wasn’t even supposed to be on the train. He’s just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not that the other killers are going to care when it’s a choice between their survival or Ladybug’s life.
Bullet Train is streaming on Hulu.
‘Prey’ (2022)
Every Predator movie is currently streaming on Hulu, but the standalone prequel Prey brings a welcome modern touch to the classic franchise. In 1719, Naru (Amber Midthunder) is a young Comanche woman who yearns to be a warrior like her brother. But the rest of the tribe has no time or patience for Naru’s ambitions.
When a primitive Predator (Dane DiLiegro) arrives, the men in Naru’s tribe are easy targets for the intergalactic hunter. To stop this threat, Naru has to succeed where the other warriors failed. When fighting this Predator, there is no room for error.
Prey is streaming on Hulu.
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