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1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day. 1991 2h 17m R. 8.6 (1.2M) Rate. 75 Metascore. A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg. Director James Cameron Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton Edward Furlong. 2. The Matrix. 1999 2h 16m R.
- Total Recall
- La Femme Nikita
- The Last Boy Scout
- Point Break
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Hard Boiled
- Demolition Man
- Hard Target
- The Fugitive
- Speed
Paul Verhoeven is a master of indefinable films. He delves eroticism, action, and science fiction with a heavily measured tongue-in-cheek satirical bent that is only matched by his unflinching regard for all things beyond the pale.Total Recall, which is one of his finest works, stars Arnold Schwarzeneggeras your Average Joe, a regular dude who goes...
La Femme Nikita launched not only Luc Besson’s career as the international man of action entertainment, but it also became an unlikely franchise of its own, spawning two US television series and an American feature film remake (Point of No Return). The watered down stateside formula is simple: woman in cocktail dress + a handgun. But all the US ada...
This is Shane Black at his Shane Black-iest, and it makes you wish that he and director Tony Scotthad collaborated more. Scott gets the tone that Black’s screenplay is going for, and while on the surface the story of a washed-up detective and washed-up football player seems too contrived to work, it does. The film is unabashedly dark and twisted in...
Let’s get this out of the way: Point Break is my favorite action film of the 1990s by a country mile. That may primarily be because its underlying focus seems to be on dismantling the legitimacy of the masculine impulses that guide most action films. Director Kathryn Bigelow sets up two opposing visions of masculinity at the center of the film: Pat...
We should probably stop giving James Cameron flak for taking so damned long on these Avatar follow-ups because if there's a man who knows how to make an action sequel, it's him. Hell, he practically defined the format in 1986 with Aliens, and in 1991 he put that bigger, badder formula to grand use in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Picking up with Lind...
John Woo is a legend of the action genre, which is why you'll see so damned many of his movies on this list. Hard Boiled, his last official Hong Kong film before heading off to Hollywood, is one of his most entertaining and stylistically definitive, and a giant of the genre. Hard Boiled stars Chow Yun-Fat as Tequila, a tough Hong Kong cop obsessed ...
Set aside Rob Schneider and the three seashells, and Demolition Man is perhaps one of the smartest, most subversive sci-fi films of the 1990s. It doesn’t get credit for its subversion because it’s putting Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipesfront-and-center, but if you look at the surrounding film, it’s surprisingly crafty with its cultural critiqu...
How sweet it is to live in a world where movies likeHard Target exist. John Woo's first American action film is pretty much what you'd expect out of that scenario – bigger explosions, a swaggering hero, and a minimal interest in plot (it's ostensibly about a heroic sailor taking down a ruthless society of men who hunt the homeless for sport, but it...
In the early 90s, Harrison Ford was intent on proving that while he was entering his 50s, his leading man days were far from over. The actor was just coming off his first turn as Jack Ryan in 1992’s Patriot Games when he signed on to lead a feature film adaptation of a television series called The Fugitive. Now, on paper, this just sounded like a n...
Speed is often described as "Die Hard on bus" and that's complete nonsense. To be sure, the 90s were littered with Die Hard copycats (See: Sudden Death), butSpeed ain't one of them. For one thing, the action isn't confined to a single location. But most importantly, Keanu Reeves' Jack Trayven isn't picking off bad guys one-by-one as he works his wa...
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1. Hard Boiled. 1992 2h 8m R. 7.7 (54K) Rate. A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew. Director John Woo Stars Chow Yun-Fat Tony Leung Chiu-wai Teresa Mo. 2. Marked for Death. 1990 1h 33m R. 5.9 (24K) Rate. 49 Metascore.
May 15, 2024 · Over 100 filmgoers have voted on the 90+ Best Action Drama Movies, Ranked. Current Top 3: Gladiator, Braveheart, The Departed
- Terminator 2. The greatest action movie of the 1990s is "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," and there are few who would dispute that. Impeccably directed by James Cameron, the film boasted the highest budget of any movie ever made at the time (per Yahoo).
- The Matrix. After "Point Break" and "Speed," Keanu Reeves had become a major action star, but it was 1999's "The Matrix" that cemented his legacy as one of the era's biggest names.
- Jurassic Park. A landmark film that pushed special effects to new heights, Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park is more than just an ordinary adventure movie, delivering a cinematic experience unlike anything audiences had ever seen before.
- Men in Black. A sci-fi twist on the buddy cop action comedy, 1997's "Men in Black" changed the game and continued Will Smith's meteoric career as one of Hollywood's biggest stars.
Jan 10, 2024 · While laying out such definitive lists is never easy, here are arguably the best of the best action movies that came out during the 1990s, with all the harrowing car chases, pulse-pounding...
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds 1990, 90 min. Cliff Bole • Starring: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner. Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
