![]() Die Hard is full of wry Bruce Willis punchlines, but I think most reasonable people wouldn’t classify that film as a comedy. That may sound ridiculously obvious, but what I mean is that, for my list-making purposes, it can’t be an action movie that just so happens to be funny as well. There’s no hard-and-fast definition of an action-comedy, but here was what I used: It has to be an action movie that’s also meant to be a comedy. But to select the 40 best action-comedies, I had to nail down the specifics of the genre, which meant figuring out what counts and, more importantly, what doesn’t. ![]() Maybe it features some ordinary, smartass dudes who stumble into some extraordinarily crazy situation. Maybe it’s about two cops - their personalities stunningly different - who have to work together to take down some crooks. If you describe a film as an action-comedy, most people will have an idea of what you’re talking about.
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