Movies in the Action genre
Mortal Kombat was made with fans in mind and, as such, it has little time or patience with those who come to it without the prerequisite background. 40% fight scenes and 60% fan service, Simon McQuiod’s slash-and-gore fest will leave the uni...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-04-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Fantasy
Director: Simon McQuoid
Cast: Lewis Tan, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, ...
The problem with Mr. and Mrs. Smith is that it's really two movies in one. The first is a sly comedy/thriller worthy of Hitchcock, and the other is a big, noisy summer action flick. The marriage of these two, like that of the title characters, is...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-06-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, ...
The 1999 remake of the horror classic The Mummy surprised Universal Pictures with its box office success. The studio had expected it to be profitable, but not that profitable. However, long before the worldwide gross crept close to $400 million,...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, ...
When Universal Pictures remade The Mummy in 1999, they wisely opted for a radically different tone, shifting from the atmospheric horror of the 1932 original to a Raiders of the Lost Ark-style adventure motif. Now, for the third major film to b...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-06-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Partial Nudity)
Genre: Horror/Action
Director: Alex Kurtzman
Cast: Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, ...
The Mummy is pretty silly stuff. But that's okay when you consider that, beneath all the action/adventure and horror trappings, it's actually a comedy. Think of a big-budget, high profile effort in the vein of Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness wit...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-05-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Brendan Fraser, John Hannah, Rachel Weisz, ...
It has been a bad year for Indiana Jones and his knock-offs. In the wake of the lackluster Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, we now have the second sequel to The Mummy, called Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. It is easily the worst o...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-08-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, ...
A look at director Peter Segal’s filmography doesn’t build confidence for My Spy. Titles like Tommy Boy, Nutty Professor 2, and Grudge Match set expectations at an appropriately low level. My Spy is one of those action/comedies that fails ...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-04-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Parisa Fitz-Henley, ...
I'm as willing as any movie-lover to accept a certain amount of ridiculousness in a movie if it serves the greater purpose of entertainment. And, when it comes to action movies, I like to think that my level of tolerance is pretty high. Hey, I en...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-19
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, ...
Okay, no one anticipated that Need for Speed, the motion picture interpretation of the popular (and addictive) series of video games, would resemble Shakespeare. There was, however, a reasonable expectation that some of the adrenaline would transfe...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-03-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Scott Waugh
Cast: Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Dominic Cooper, ...
In 1971, following the release of Diamonds Are Forever, Sean Connery announced that he would "never again" play the role of James Bond. As a result, the producers brought in Roger Moore, and the series continued. 12 years later, in 1983,...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Pamela Salem, Alec McCowen, ...