Movies in the Action/Adventure genre
Ultimately, it's of minor import how much of Rob Roy is based upon historical fact and how much has been embellished by the pen of screenwriter Alan Sharp. As a hero of 18th century Scotland, Robert Roy MacGregor is known to have walked through th...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-04-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, ...
The Rocketeer is a superhero movie, but it's a superhero movie of a different flavor. This isn't a Batman or a Superman clone. It isn't about a vigilante out to stomp out crime or a visitor from another world using his powers to advance truth, ju...
U.S. Release Date: 1991-06-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, ...
Sahara takes the action/adventure story to new heights of preposterousness. In a way, that's not a bad thing, since it allows a certain level of guilty enjoyment. You're never expected to take anything in the movie seriously, because the characte...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-04-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Breck Eisner
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penelope Cruz, ...
San Andreas is exactly what one might expect it to be - no more and no less. It's as if director Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) and screenwriter Carlton Cuse assembled this movie after attending a Disaster 101 course. Although tec...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-05-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Disaster Images, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, ...
Watching The Scorpion King, the question that came to mind was whether Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could become a Schwarzenegger for the '00s. Having asked that, however, it's worth considering whether Schwarzenegger in his prime could have had th...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-04-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Chuck Russell
Cast: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Steven Brand, Kelly Hu, ...
In Shazam!, the positives outweigh the negatives. The film’s fresh aspects are strong enough to keep the stale ones at bay. With this 2019 feature, one tiny corner of the DC Extended Universe has finally embraced the concept of “humor,” ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-04-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Comic book monstrosities, Santa Claus abuse)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: David F. Sandberg
Cast: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong, ...
The second Shazam! movie, sequel to the 2019 modest success, is an undercooked casserole of cliched narrative elements, underdeveloped characters, juvenile humor, and a deus ex machina cameo. It embodies all that’s bad about modern superhero mov...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: David F. Sandberg
Cast: Zachary Levi, Caroline Grace-Cassidy, D.J. Cotrona, ...
Schlock Holmes is too brutal. Call it instead The Adventure of the Da Vinci Code Knock-off or The Adventure of the Missing Ending. Either would be equally appropriate. This original story, which borrows heavily from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "can...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, ...
It can be argued that few things embolden a filmmaker more than success. When Guy Ritchie re-invented the world's best-known detective for his 2009 Sherlock Holmes, no one knew how the movie would be received. Ritchie's vision was validated by a s...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-12-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, ...
Sin City is the most visually inventive comic book adaptation to make its way to a movie screen. While other directors have attempted to remain faithful to the look and "feel" of their source material, Robert Rodriguez has taken things a step furt...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-04-01
MPAA Rating: "R " (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, ...