10. Avengers Age Of Ultron (2015)

$2,899,384,102 Billion

Joss Whedon’s second Avengers film is the only movie in the Top 10 action movies of all time that may be viewed as both a success and a let-down. The movie never quite matched the first Avengers movie in terms of money or popularity, falling short of the previous movie’s record-breaking opening weekend (note that it was still the second-best opening of all time when it was released).

In this movie Bruce Banner assists Tony Stark in creating the Ultron artificial intelligence system. The Avengers set out to thwart the sentient Ultron’s ambitions to exterminate humanity.

9. Top Gun Maverick (2022)

$1,487,575,965

Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise as a fighter pilot, topped the box office in 1986 with a domestic gross of $176.8 million in the United States. It earned $357.3 million globally, so it wasn’t exactly a dud. Top Gun later became hailed as a cult classic. But no one could have ever foreseen that, more than three and a half decades later, its sequel would bring in more than that in the US alone, propelling it all the way to No. 7 on the local charts, and into the top 20 earners worldwide at No. 9 with more than $1.4 billion in revenue, and making it one of the highest grossing action movies of all time.

Tom Cruise’s return as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell undoubtedly helped, but the director Joesph Kosinski also made use of some deliberately placed fan service and cutting-edge IMAX cameras for breath-taking action sequences to deliver the greatest blockbuster action movie of Summer 2022.

8. Furious 7 (2015)

$1,514,553,486

Furious 7 was the Fast and Furious series’ most commercially successful instalment thanks to the series’ full embrace of its now-signature bombast and the tragic passing of Paul Walker. It was well received by the public; the $147 million opening weekend take was about $50 million higher than any prior entry in the series.

7. The Avengers (2012)

$1,515,100,211

Take into account the fact that the first Avengers film featuring Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man earned more than their origin stories’ combined. The crew was finally put together for a single battle against Loki and his army after five movies into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film directed by Joss Whedon was the first to earn more than $200 million in a single weekend and was Marvel’s first admission into the Billion Dollar Club.

6. Jurassic World (2015)

$1,669,963,641

It was time for the children of a new generation to have their own version of dinosaur mayhem, 22 years after Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park became the Jaws for a new generation. Following a similar plot to the original, genetically modified dinosaurs escape from their enclosure, and start terrorising the visitors.

This film outperformed a crowded summer that featured the Avengers, Minions, and other blockbuster movies to become only the third movie since Titanic in 1998 to surpass $600 million in domestic box office, and becoming one of the highest grossing action movies of all time.

5. Avatar: Way Of The Water (2022)

$1,708,089,379

While the story may be quite ordinary, Avatar: The Way of Water is a tremendously immersive experience. Avatar: The Way of Water opens with the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their children), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they experience. This story is set more than ten years after the events of the first movie.

4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2022)

$1,910,041,582

The picture itself was an ambitious, multiverse-expanding chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that brought together some of the most cherished characters in the web slinger’s big screen history in a funny, poignant, exhilarating extravaganza. However even with these factors, it was predicted that it would not become a success.

This was due to Covid 19 keeping most people at home, but cinema goers were willing to risk going to the cinema for it, and they showed up! The movie became the highest-grossing Spider-Man movie ever made as well as the most successful Sony Pictures release ever.

3. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

$2,048,359,754

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has been around for almost ten years, gathered nearly all of its cast members for a galactic battle with the main antagonist Thanos. The film had one of the craziest cliff-hangers in the history of any franchise, making viewers wait in suspense for the conclusion of Phase 3 of the epic series for an entire year.

2. Avengers Endgame (2019)

$2,794,731,755

For some of the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the adventure that started in 2008 with Iron Man was coming to an end. This Infinity War sequel was so eagerly anticipated that Avengers: Endgame’s opening weekend in April 2019 broke Infinity War’s all-time record by around $100 million. The movie’s domestic box office earnings reached half a billion in just eight days.

Endgame had just been in theatres for six weeks when Avatar was just $73 million away from unseating it. The movie was then re-released on June 28 by Marvel and Disney with additional scenes added to its end credits. It might not have been able to overtake The Force Awakens as the all-time domestic leader, but by the end of the summer, it would overtake Avatar and rule the globe—at least temporarily. Avatar eventually regained the title with a 2021 re-release in China, but this does not lessen the great accomplishment of Endgame.

1. Avatar (2009)

$2,899,384,102

The world had to wait almost 12 years for James Cameron to release his successor to the original greatest movie of all time – The Titanic. Nobody anticipated that this story of an extra-terrestrial planet and a paraplegic Marine who joins its inhabitants in the fight for unobtanium would eclipse Titanic’s sales figures. But that is exactly what happened.

At the peak of a 3-D reemergence, Avatar‘s seven straight weekends at number 1 led to over $595 million at the North American box office. Then, on February 2, 2010, the movie’s 47th day of release, it surpassed all previous records for domestic box office take. Avatar was the only movie to ever make $2 billion outside of the United States and Canada, making it the highest-grossing movie in the world at the time. It held that record for five years and eleven months. Until Avatar was re-released in China in 2021 and once again overtook Endgame as the highest-grossing action film of all time, Endgame would occupy that position.