Movies in the Action genre
48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, and Lethal Weapon were all, to some extent, reasonably entertaining action films. The unavoidable result of their success has been a long string of sequels and rip-offs. The latest is Bad Boys, an overlong sample ...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-04-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Tea Leoni, ...
Has the passage of 18 years and the removal of Michael Bay from the director’s chair revived or redeemed the roadkill represented by the previous Bad Boys sequel? To a certain extent, yes, but only when one considers that the third installme...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-01-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action
Director: Adil El Arbi, Billal Fallah
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Joe Pantoliano, ...
The only thing as bad as bad comedy is bad action. Bad Boys II has plenty of both. In fact, those two things are all it has, unless you count the small helping of bad drama. When it comes to this movie, the word "bad" initially seems highly appr...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-07-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Gabrielle Union, ...
Barb Wire has the cleavage of a Russ Meyer film without the jiggle. If someone was going to make a campy version of Casablanca, you'd think they'd at least have the decency to make it fun. Unfortunately, other than a couple of very obvious, ab...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Action
Director: David Hogan
Cast: Pamela Anderson Lee, Temura Morrison, Victoria Rowell, ...
The superheroes of DC Comics have been very good to Warner Brothers. In 1978, Superman became a major motion picture event, packing theaters and resulting in a franchise that generated three sequels before collapsing under the weight of bad writin...
U.S. Release Date: 1989-06-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, ...
With Batman and Robin, the fourth entry in the recent Batman movie series, the profitable franchise appears poised to take a nosedive. This film, which places yet another actor in the batsuit, has all the necessary hallmarks of a sorry sequel...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-06-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Clooney, John Glover, Elle Macpherson, ...
Of all the major comic book characters to transition to a less static visual media, none has been more mistreated than the Bat-Man. As originally envisioned by creator Bob Kane in 1939, Batman was a dark character who walked the tightrope between ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-06-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, ...
It's lighter, brighter, funnier, faster-paced, and a whole lot more colorful than before. There's a new actor underneath the cape, a new girlfriend on his arm, and a new partner by his side. The director is different and the composer has changed....
U.S. Release Date: 1995-06-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, ...
The box office performance of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman assured there would be sequel but Burton’s desire for greater creative control caused the production of Batman Returns to linger in development longer than Warner Brothers preferred. In ad...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-04-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, ...
For those who thought Man of Steel was dark, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Batman v Superman, the battle royale/team-up of DC Comics’ revered superheroes, is so bleak that the sun never seems to shine, the characters’ faces can’t form smiles, a...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-03-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Ben Affleck, Scoot McNairy, Laurence Fishburne, ...