The pleasures of Netflix’s sci-fi action movie War Machine are simple, straightforward, and gut-level. It’s a movie about tough people enduring rough stuff against long odds, building camaraderie and respect for each other against a background of obstacles,

A U.S. Army Ranger team does battle with a giant alien robot in a movie co-starring Dennis Quaid, Esai Morales and Jai Courtney.

Loved Netflix’s War Machine? Here are five must-watch sci-fi action thrillers and military sci-fi films packed with futuristic warfare, alien invasions, and high-stakes battles.

Directed by Patrick Hughes, ‘War Machine’ presents an action-packed science-fiction movie that finds the protagonist facing an impossible enemy. Soldier number 81 only has one objective in life: to pass the highly coveted selection program to become a RASP Ranger.

War Machine’s ending seems to reveal what’s next for Alan Ritchson’s 81, as well as how this experience has completely changed him.