#stunts

#stunts

As a GenX snowboarder, I have a mandatory obligation to include this 2002 guilty pleasure on the list. Vin Diesel plays Xander Cage, an extreme athlete blackmailed by the NSA into becoming a spy in Prague. Without warning, the film suddenly drops viewers into an isolated alpine sequence filmed in Kaunertal, Austria. Trapped on a peak, Cage paratroops out of a plane with a snowboard, and barely outruns a massive avalanche.

This Macau-set cops-and-robbers thriller even has a little fun by introducing him as a retired cop turned dog walker called Wong, surrounded by a motley pack of pooches that he marshals expertly through the streets. Once the best surveillance man on the force, Wong's observational skills have not faded a jot, as he proves by recounting exactly which of his doggie charges pooped in what order. More importantly, he can still take on young ruffians a third of his age,

Florence Pugh expressed her determination to perform her own stunts in Thunderbolts, specifically a dramatic jump off the second tallest building—an act she believed was vital for the film's marketing.