Action Picks

This is a returning classic from 1984, and it remains a lean action thriller with almost no wasted motion as an unstoppable cyborg assassin hunts Sarah Connor. James Cameron stages pure momentum and dread, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the killing machine and Michael Biehn as the lone warrior sent to stop it. It sits at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.1 on IMDb, and it plays in English in Vienna where the chase belongs on a big screen.

Director David Leitch brings his stunt-driven eye to a Berlin spy thriller, with Charlize Theron as an MI6 agent trading bone-crunching blows while chasing a list of double agents. The action is the draw here, hard-hitting and physical, and critics landed it at 79% on Rotten Tomatoes. It plays in English in Vienna, though screenings this week are very limited, so you will need to move fast to catch it.