Gerard Butler has been in a lot of action thriller movies, and I've watched a surprising amount of them. In fact, I just started the year by watching two of them back to back: "Greenland" and its new sequel, "Greenland 2: Migration." So it felt like the perfect time to put together the list of the five best Gerard Butler action thriller movies and then rank them.
Spoiler alert: only one of those two movies makes this list. I had to make some tough cuts. Since this is a list of the best Gerard Butler action thrillers, some of Butler's best work isn't on this list. "300" is more of a historical action epic, so it didn't feel right to include it on the list. "The Vanishing" is a psychological thriller that can't really be classified as "action-packed." And in an effort to be objective, I couldn't put "Gamer" on this list, even if it might be one of my favorites of Butler's movies.
