Bruce Willis’s too-early retirement has us reflecting on the distinctive qualities of the greatest action movie heroes. We’re not talking Marvel/DC superheroes, but the business end of the action spectrum: the get-it-done types, reluctant heroes, supercops, and wrong-place-right-time everymen and women. They get back what’s been taken, speed through rush hour while under siege, before making the great escape. It’s judgment day: list your top ten action stars, representing each by your favorite film in which they appear first in the Letterboxd cast list—because vengeance is all you have left.