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PerfAction

2ILT takes on the formidable challenge of dissecting the perfection action movie.

Of course, it simply had to be called…

PerfAction

#3: Hard Boiled 辣手神探 (1992)

#2: Die Hard (Ode to Hans Gruber)

#1: The Rock (1996)

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