Category: Action

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2000s / Action / Thriller

Cellular (2004)

Reminiscent in feel with other “dumb fun” thrillers like Speed and the Die Hard series, Cellular isn’t going to break through with cinematic originality, but it is still an engaging a 90-minute escapist thrill ride.  Plot holes?  Yes, there...

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1990s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller

Predator 2 (1990)

Predator 2 shows how important star charisma and crisp direction are to an action film, as the first one had it and this one doesn’t.  Predator was an exciting and very interesting take on a very simple...

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1970s / Action / Comedy

Grand Theft Auto (1977)

Grand Theft Auto (not to be confused with the mega-popular videogame) is a quintessential 70s car film, full of non-stop chases, explosive pile-ups, and constant defiance of the law.  Perhaps more significant as the...

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2000s / Action / Thriller

Highwaymen (2003)

At a small motel in the middle of nowhere, Rennie Cray (Caviezel) lost everything that was dear to him, when a hit-and-run driver runs over his wife and speeds away. Fast forward to five...

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1990s / Action / Fantasy / Superhero

Steel (1997)

Unintentional humor abounds, in this very poor attempt at trying to start up another franchise superhero (based on an actual DC Comics character spun off of Superman) with Shaquille O’Neal in the lead role. ...

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1980s / Action / Comedy

Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)

I’m not sure what it is about Hal Needham that he can make a couple of fun and entertaining films like The Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit, and yet completely lose his mind when trying to...

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1980s / Action / Comedy

Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)

Just when you thought things couldn’t possibly be worse in the Smokey and the Bandit saga than Part II, along comes Part 3 to remind you that no matter how bad things can be, someone can always come...

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1970s / Action / Comedy

Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

A huge success at the time of its release (only Star Wars made more money in 1977), Smokey and the Bandit was the right movie at the right time, riding the wave of Burt Reynolds’ popularity, rascally...

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1970s / Action / Thriller

Death Wish (1974)

Death Wish succeeds more as an anti-liberal backlash than as a movie, with an engaging premise of a conscientious objector who takes up arms in the streets of New York City when he finds that...

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2000s / Action / Fantasy / Superhero

Catwoman (2004)

Change the name, change the origin, change the town, change the personality, and what do you have?  Not DC Comics’ Catwoman, I can attest.  The only similarities between Catwoman‘s Patience Phillips and Selina Kyle of...