Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Based on the novel by Walter Mosley. In the year 1948, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins (Washington) is having trouble paying his mortgage. This leads to his not being able to turn down an offer to play...
Category: 1990s
Royal Tramp II (1992)
Continuing the slapstick saga of the clown prince of China (Chow, Fight Back to School), still performing his shenanigans while maintaining his position as the emperor’s right-hand man. Definitely a step down comedically from the...
Spawn (1997)
The country’s best mercenary, Al Simmons, gets double-crossed in what was to be his final mission, and ends up killed by his supervisor, Jason Wynn. The mercenary is then offered a deal by the...
Crimson Tide (1995)
While I’ve never been a huge fan of director Tony Scott’s (True Romance, Days of Thunder) dark and claustrophobic style, where else would this be a natural fit than on a submarine? Hell, even shot...
Phantoms (1998)
Two sisters travel to a small town in Colorado only to find that the inhabitants have all died mysterious and grisly deaths, save for the sheriff Affleck and a pair of deputies who are trying...
Air Force One (1997)
The US President (Ford) delivers a speech to citizens of Russia dictating the “zero-tolerance” policy the United States will be taking against terrorists. On board Air Force One on the flight home, some terrorists take...
City Hunter (1993)
City Hunter is an action film based on the popular Japanese comic book of the same name. The plotline centers around a womanizing private investigator named Ryu Saeba (Chan, Police Story 2), who is hired to...
Mr. Nice Guy (1997)
A TV chef (Chan, Thunderbolt) gets embroiled in a plot by dangerous underworld types to get a videotape of a secret drug deal and murder when he accidentally bumps into a reporter who threatens to blow...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Unlike author Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” novel, the 1993 Universal Pictures film adaptation was built with sequels in mind. Whereas the novel wiped out the dinosaurs in the end, Spielberg kept them alive, as...
Bad Boys (1995)
Bad Boys is a movie at odds with itself. The part of it that tries to be a comedy is a smashing success, with Martin Lawrence at his best, delivering line after funny line amid a...