10 Female Movie Characters Who Kicked Some Serious Ass

milla jovovich the fifth element The world of movies has brought us some truly formidable female characters over the years and it's always a pleasure to see an attractive woman laying the smackdown - it tends to hit the spot with many men and women on a number of levels. That said, there's no doubting that action movies and, particularly more recently, superhero movies are dominated by male characters and actors. When you look at the action genre, you think of the classic action heroes as being the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis and Jean-Claude Van Damme, while the modern equivalents are the likes of Jason Statham, Daniel Craig, Matt Damon and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - all notably male. So I'm here to celebrate the females who have taken on the action mantle and kicked some proverbial (and some literal) butt. On that note, here are ten women in movies who kicked some serious ass...
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