Category: Science Fiction

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Action / Science Fiction / Thriller

Demolition Man (1993)

Demolition Man starts off in Los Angeles’s near future of 1996, where crime has run rampant.  It takes someone ruthless to catch ruthless criminals, and that man is super-cop John Spartan (Stallone, Rocky V), whose take-no-prisoners...

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2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller

The Happening (2008)

If I had thought, even for one second, that writer-director M. Night Shyamalan was making a spoof of end-of-the-world sci-fi thrillers from the 1950s, I might give The Happening much more credit than I’ll be...

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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 / 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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2000s / Horror / Science Fiction

Cloverfield (2008)

Cloverfield‘s premise isn’t dissimilar to The Blair Witch Project in that it is a mock home video taken of a terrifying event shot by one of the eyewitnesses.  The opening written blurbs indicate that the...

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1990s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller

Timecop (1994)

From the pages of Dark Horse comics comes Timecop, a futuristic time-travel cop thriller that has the dubious distinction of being Jean-Claude Van Damme’s (Street Fighter, Universal Soldier) arguably best effort, with the possible exception...

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2000s / Action / Science Fiction

Transformers (2007)

Hasbro’s action figures are dusted off for one more go around for a feature film, with the last effort coming in the animated Transformers: The Movie in 1986, which has gone on to become something of...

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1970s / Science Fiction / Thriller

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Michael Crichton’s 1969 sci fi-thriller novel of the same name serves as the basis of this film, which jumped into production not long after the book’s release.  It starts off in the town of...