Category: Action

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2000s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Superhero

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

With Hellboy II: The Golden Army, writer-director Guillermo del Toro (Blade II, Mimic) continues his tradition of making visually magnificent spectacles that succeed not just through gorgeous eye candy, but by giving his characters the room to...

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1990s / Action / Thriller

Point Break (1991)

Keanu Reeves (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, A Walk in the Clouds) plays former college star quarterback Johnny Utah, now an FBI agent, whose latest case is to crack a string of Southern California bank...

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1960s / Action / Western

The Professionals (1966)

Set in the early 20th Century, Joe ‘J.W.’ Grant (Bellamy, Trading Places) is a filthy rich American who employs four guns-for-hire to get back his wife, Maria (Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West), who has...

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2000s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

The Incredible Hulk is neither an outright sequel to the 2003 Ang Lee snoozefest, Hulk, nor an outright reboot.  In fact, the screenwriters, including star Edward Norton (The Painted Veil, The Illusionist), who would rewrite entire scenes daily...

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2000s / Action / Martial Arts / Thriller

Flash Point (2007)

The duo of fight choreographer and star Donnie Yen (Huadu Chronicles, Shanghai Knights) and director Wilson Yip (Bio-Zombie, The White Dragon) reunite for their third straight movie (after Kill Zone (aka SPL) and Dragon Tiger Gate) with more intense, brilliantly-choreographed fight...

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1980s / Action / Adventure

Commando (1985)

Commando is the film that set the mold for the iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger screen persona, showing off his charisma and penchant for one-liners as he delivers his kill shots. Prior to this, his high-profile...

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2000s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller

Jumper (2008)

My advice to studios: don’t plan for a trilogy when you can’t even get the first film developed thoroughly. This is what happens when a good idea gets studio-botched by too many people with...

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1990s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

The most comedic of the Beverly Hills Cop films turns out to be the least amusing, despite a veteran director (Landis, An American Werewolf in London) and screenwriter (de Souza, Hudson Hawk), ones who have worked with Murphy...