Ranked: Top 10 Joe Taslim Action Movies If You Caught ‘The Furious’ Fever

Joe Taslim has spent the better part of the last decade and a half being the most dangerous man in any room he enters, and the pan-Asian action thunderclap The Furious is perhaps the fullest expression yet of what that means on screen. He is a body actor in the oldest, most classical sense: every fight is a confession.

Here is a ranking of his best action films, including The Furious, which was released on June 12, 2026. They are ordered not just by how good they are and how good he is in them, but also how fully they understand that. Not all of these feature martial arts, and many of them are not your traditional action films. But Taslim is great in each of these, and if you liked him in The Furious and want to see more of him, you can’t go wrong with the following movies.

10 Mortal Kombat II (2026)

Joe Taslim makes a brief appearance as Noob Saibot in this video-game adaptation. For those unaware of the lore, he is the wraith-resurrection of Bi-Han. Bi-Han is better known as the Sub-Zero. Where Sub-Zero was all menace and cold precision (literally), Noob Saibot operates in the shadows. It is too brief a role (not surprisingly, considering how populated the movie feels already). Mortal Kombat II is at tenth, not because it is a failure, but Taslim’s role is a missed opportunity.

9 Dead Mine (2012)

The second ever movie of his career, Dead Mine is a horror-action hybrid that traps him and in a World War II-era Japanese bunker. Joe Taslim does what he can do in this subpar script and with the genre’s constraints. He is still watchable. The film ranks above Mortal Kombat II because, at least here, he gets considerable screen time, even if he has a supporting role.

8 Hit & Run (2019)

Reuniting with Yayan Ruhian (Mad Dog himself from The Raid), Hit & Run tries hard to be a mixture of action and comedy and ends up being something in-between but not quite reaching either. Ruhian stars as the villain of the movie, which is absolutely perfect. The fight choreography is brilliant. But the film is too comfortable with its own cheerfulness to be anything more than mildly interesting. It is in 8th place because it is better than it sounds and worse than it should be.

7 Star Trek Beyond (2016)

As Manas, an aide-de-camp to Idris Elba‘s warlord Krall, Taslim gets cast in a part written to be sacrificed for the story. Justin Lin’s Beyond is the most kinetic and interesting of the Kelvin timeline of Star Trek movies. Taslim’s presence is its most honest symptom. This movie sits at seven even then because it is a superb movie despite Taslim being wasted. And, albeit as franchise furniture, he carries himself like a man with a mythology the film never bothered to write.

6 Mortal Kombat (2021)

The 2021 reboot of the video game franchise is a mess. Mortal Kombat is full of exposition and gore. It does have a couple of genuinely great performances at its center. Joe Taslim’s Bi-Han ot Sub-Zero is one. Menace incarnate, he is cold, imperial, and nearly tragic. He is a character steeped in lore and acts as if he comes straight out of a dark fantasy samurai film. The performance deserves far better than the movie gives it and thus ranks at number six.

5 Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

Fast & Furious 6 marked his entry into Hollywood. He plays Jah, who fights both Tyrese Gibson and Sung Kang barehandedly and defeats them. This movie’s machinery is just too big to allow any one individual even the breathing space, but Joe Taslim’s fight scenes happen to be among the highlights of the movie. The film holds the number five position for introducing Taslim to the world stage.

4 The Swordsman (2020)

The South Korean period actioner is an underrated and underseen movie that every Taslim fan worth their salt should watch. Featuring Iko Uwais in the lead, it has Joe Taslim playing swordsman villain and he briefly hijacks the movie. The film is better than its premise suggests. Taslim’s fight sequences are among the most technically accomplished of his career outside Indonesia.  This comes at number four because it shows what kind of work he can do when the choreography revolves around his body and not himself.

3 The Furious (2025)

Kenji Tanigaki’s film does not have any intention of wasting anything, which is why it succeeds. One of the best martial arts movies of the 21st century, it has a simple plot, but it has enough meat in it for you to care about what happens in the film. Taslim plays the role of Navin, a journalist on a mission to find his lost wife, and acts as the co-protagonist along with Xie Miao’s patriarch. Both men have nothing left to lose as they traverse the crime world. 

The pan-Asian cast brings into focus different martial languages within the frame, but Taslim brings with him the one that gives emotional weight to the movie. In third place, simply because the movies above him use him better, but we bet you’ll remember the movie because of him.

2 The Night Comes for Us (2018)

Timo Tjahjanto’s Netflix brutal action movie The Night Comes for Us is the most morally serious action film of its decade. Taslim’s character, Ito, is a Triad enforcer. It is a complex role, and he gives a compelling performance. The film reunites him with The Raid‘s Iko Uwais. Uwais plays the antagonist. Both are absolutely brilliant in their respective roles, and the action is hypnotic. This film ranks second because it is a rare lead performance that allows Taslim to act the hell out of it.

1 The Raid (2011)

Gareth Evans’ first movie, The Raid, is one of the finest debuts ever. It will forever be remembered as one of the best action movies out there. Taslim plays the role of Sergeant Jaka. Jaka is the moral center of the SWAT team. He is, not surprisingly, brilliant in the role. The Raid is a closed system of escalating violence, and Taslim is the last reminder that the men inside it were human before they became fighters. Everything else on this list exists in the long shadow of what he does here, and that is why The Raid is at the top position.

Here are all the movies in a nutshell:

Title	Director	Premise	IMDb score (as of June 16, 2026)	Rotten Tomatoes score (as of June 16, 2026)
Mortal Kombat II (2026)	Simon McQuoid	The sequel continues the battle for Earthrealm with new fighters and rivalries.	6.5/10	64% | 87%
Dead Mine (2012)	Steven Sheil	Treasure hunters enter a Japanese bunker and uncover a terrifying secret.	4.5/10	N/A | 16%
Hit & Run (2019)	Ody C. Harahap	A celebrity police officer pursues a drug lord while accompanied by a documentary crew.	6.2/10	N/A | N/A
Star Trek Beyond (2016)	Justin Lin	The USS Enterprise crew faces a powerful enemy after being stranded on a hostile planet.	7.0/10	86% | 79%
Mortal Kombat (2021)	Simon McQuoid	Fighters chosen by Earthrealm battle supernatural enemies in a deadly tournament.	6.1/10	55% | 85%
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)	Justin Lin	Dom’s crew is recruited to stop a mercenary organization in exchange for pardons.	7.0/10	71% | 84%
The Swordsman (2020)	Choi Jae-hoon	A retired swordsman returns to violence when his daughter is kidnapped.	6.8/10	86% | 85%
The Furious (2025)	Kenji Tanigaki	A journalist searching for his missing wife becomes entangled in a brutal criminal underworld.	7.9/10	97% | 95%
The Night Comes for Us (2018)	Timo Tjahjanto	A Triad enforcer turns against his organization to protect a young girl, triggering a citywide manhunt.	6.9/10	92% | 82%
The Raid (2011)	Gareth Evans	An elite SWAT team becomes trapped inside a crime lord’s apartment block and must fight their way out.	7.6/10	87% | 87%

Which Joe Taslim film do you think deserves a higher spot on this list? Drop your picks in the comments below.

The Furious released on June 12, 2026, in theaters.