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1986
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- The Good Wife2009
- Man on Fire2004
- True Romance1993
- Unstoppable2010
- Crimson Tide1995
- The Last Boy Scout1991
- The A-Team2010
- Enemy of the State1998
- Déjà Vu2006
The Grey2012- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007
- NUMB3RS2005
- Spy Game2001
- Stoker2013
- Beverly Hills Cop II1987
- The Taking of Pelham 1232009
- The Hunger1983
Jan 4, 2024 · From 1980s classics like Top Gun to movies like Man on Fire and Unstoppable, this is a ranking of every film the great Tony Scott ever directed.
- Enemy of the State (1998) In an homage to the great 70s political thrillers Francis Ford Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION (1974) and Sydney Pollack’s THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975), Scott’s pre-9/11 cautionary tale of the threat of Big Brother violating our privacy is years before the Patriot Act and Edward Snowden and it warns us of the dangers of ignoring checks and balances in our government.
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) In this remake of the 1974 Joseph Sargent-directed movie, Denzel Washington steps into the Walter Matthau role and John Travolta takes on the Robert Shaw role.
- The Last Boy Scout (1991) At the time, Shane Black’s screenplay for this movie was the highest spec script ever sold. Producer Joel Silver of Lethal Weapon fame hired Scott to tell the tale of a weathered ex-Secret Service agent turned private detective, Joe Hallenbeck, (Bruce Willis) who teams up with washed-up quarterback, Jimmy Dix, (Damon Wayans) to solve a murder that ultimately uncovers an assassination plot against a U.S. Congressman.
- Days of Thunder (1990) Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer hired Scott again, this time to tackle NASCAR racing in a movie that was nicknamed “TOP GUN with cars.”
- The Hunger
- The Taking of Pelham 123
- The Fan
- Domino
- Deja Vu
- Unstoppable
- Enemy of The State
- Revenge
- Beverly Hills Cop II
- Spy Game
The Hunger was Tony Scott's first feature, which starred David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon in an odd and trippy, visually-striking vampire tale that's far more style than substance. The imagery in The Hunger is a perfect preview of Scott's potential, defining what would become his signature style of extreme close-ups, quick cuts, s...
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a remake of the 1974 thriller starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, this time with Denzel Washington and John Travolta. The premise has Travolta's character taking a subway train hostage for ransom, while Washington's dispatcher is put in the middle of the cat-and-mouse game. While the cast is strong, including perfor...
Scott was hot off Crimson Tide when he debuted The Fan, which was a strange follow-up for the director that disrupted his momentum. The intentions were good, however, and the cast, as with all of Scott's films, was stand-out. A pre-Blade Wesley Snipes plays a famous baseball player who attracts the attention of a knife-wielding fan in the form of R...
Domino, the biopic starring Keira Knightley about the life of Domino Harvey, a model-turned-bounty hunter, is perhaps Scott's most over-stylized film. Immersed in the quick-cut, hazy slow-mo, heavily-filtered style that the director started toying with as early as Spy Game, Domino is a whole lot of style over substance, but it's not exactly lacking...
Scott bounced back from the theatrical failure of Domino by re-teaming with two of his most reliable collaborators, Denzel Washington and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. This time, the trio leans into the sci-fi genre with Deja Vu, a high-concept thriller involving a satellite technology that allows a form of time travel, which Washington's A.T.F. agen...
Tony Scott's final film, Unstoppable, was very much the kind of rousing thriller that helped make him a name in the first place. A runaway train story, loosely based on an actual event, Scott's coup de grâce stars his most frequent collaborator, Denzel Washington, and then-newcomer Chris Pine. Washington plays a veteran railroad engineer who teams ...
Hot off Bad Boys, Independence Day, and MIB, Will Smith jumped into the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Enemy of the State, a techno-thriller that also re-teamed Scott with his Crimson Tide star, Gene Hackman. Smith plays a lawyer who is framed after inadvertently getting involved in a government conspiracy that turns his life upside down. He teams up w...
After making two commercial hits with Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop II, Scott took on a more personal thriller with Revenge, based on the novella by Jim Harrison. The film starred Kevin Costner, preceding his Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves, which would propel the star to great heights while leaving Revenge as a little-known blip on his filmograph...
After the success of Top Gun, Scott slid right over to another Simpson/Bruckheimer property, Beverly Hills Cop II. Eddie Murphy returns as wise-cracking Detroit cop Axel Foley, who steps out of his jurisdiction in order to help solve a case in California, this time the attempted murder of his friend, Ronny Cox's Bogamil. Teaming up with L.A. cops B...
Spy Game is one of Scott's most effective thrillers that suffered heavily due to timing. Released just a few months after 9/11, Spy Game leaned heavily into global politics, specifically the CIA and its interactions with foreign nations, which in turn was too much, too soon for moviegoers. Scott put together one of the most sought-after duos in Rob...
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1. True Romance (1993) R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Romance. 7.9. Rate. 59 Metascore. In Detroit, a pop culture nerd steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple. Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer.
Jun 5, 2022 · By Erik Nielsen. Published Jun 5, 2022. Tony Scott was an action pioneer who left behind a legacy of great blockbuster films, from Top Gun to Unstoppable. Paramount Pictures. Tony Scott is...
Jun 9, 2020 · Here are the directors best movies according to Rotten Tomatoes. Hollywood suffered a massive blow with the death of Tony Scott in 2012. After making his big-screen debut with the stylish vampire film The Hunger in 1983, Scott slowly built up his reputation as one of the most entertaining filmmakers of all time.
