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- The Good Wife2009
- Man on Fire2004
- True Romance1993
- Unstoppable2010
- Crimson Tide1995
- The Last Boy Scout1991
- Déjà Vu2006
- Days of Thunder1990
- The A-Team2010
Enemy of the State1998- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007
- The Grey2012
- Stoker2013
- NUMB3RS2005
- Beverly Hills Cop II1987
- Spy Game2001
- The Taking of Pelham 1232009
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
- 'True Romance' (1993) Starring: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper. As a fast-paced, clever, and action-packed crime movie, True Romance really feels like it has it all, and is perhaps the greatest thing Tony Scott ever directed.
- 'Crimson Tide' (1995) Starring: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Viggo Mortensen. A genuinely gripping and extremely well-made war movie, Crimson Tide is all about being as intense as possible for most of its runtime.
- 'Man on Fire' (2004) Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken. Though Man on Fire does deliver when it comes to action and thrills, it might be the more grounded elements that work the best here, making this arguably one of the more moving and dramatic films Tony Scott ever directed.
- 'The Hunger' (1983) Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, David Bowie. The Hunger is a cult classic vampire/horror movie, and one that pushes things pretty far overall.
- 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...
- Paul Shirey
- Senior Features Writer
- True Romance (1993) Quentin Tarantino wrote this gritty crime thriller that stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette as star-crossed lovers that get mixed up in some shady business with a possessive pimp, Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman) and wind up in possession of a duffel bag full of cash that doesn't belong to them.
- Top Gun (1986) Maverick (Tom Cruise), Goose (Anthony Edwards), and Ice Man (Val Kilmer) are all members of the elite navy fighter pilot school called Top Gun.
- Enemy of the State (1998) Hackman starred again alongside Will Smith in this thriller that sees Smith's character, lawyer Robert Clayton Dean inadvertently get tangled up in a mess involving a corrupt National Security Advisor (Jon Voight), who is trying to cover up some illegal activity that would send him to jail.
- Crimson Tide (1999) Crimson Tide is the best film that Scott and Washington teamed up on. It features Washington as Lieutenant Commander Ron Hunter, who along with Captain Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) leads the crew of the U.S. submarine Alabama.
Jun 3, 2024 · This list rounds up the best Tony Scott movies that have not only defined a genre but also continue to entertain audiences worldwide. Whether you're in the mood for thrilling aerial dogfights or suspense-filled spy games, these films showcase why Tony Scott's directorial prowess is still revered in cinema circles today.
As fast, loud, and relentless as the train at the center of the story, Unstoppable is perfect popcorn entertainment -- and director Tony Scott's best movie in years.
Tony Scott's movies ranked from best to worst. by paesan | created - 1 month ago | updated - 1 month ago | Public. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 15 titles. 1. True Romance (1993) R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Romance. 7.9. Rate. 59 Metascore.
1. Spy Game (2001) R | 126 min | Action, Crime, Thriller. 7.1. Rate. 63 Metascore. Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane. Votes: 165,308 | Gross: $0.03M
