Movies in the Adventure genre
Had Seventh Son been released in the 1980s, it would have been deemed an adequate - perhaps even good - fantasy adventure. However, in the three decades since Conan the Barbarian and Dragonslayer defined the genre's best big screen attempts, ther...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-02-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, ...
The Shallows is almost a good movie. It misses by this much (hold thumb and index finger apart by an inch). For 75 of its 85 minutes, it’s a gripping woman-against-nature tale with tough, determined Nancy (Blake Lively) facing her own infirmiti...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-06-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller/Adventure
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Blake Lively
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, ...
The dream is reaching America. The nightmare is undertaking the journey to get there. But you know your current circumstances aren't too promising when New Jersey is represented as a paradise. Writer/director Cary Fukunaga's film is about illegal ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-03-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristian Ferrer, ...
The scenery is great, the actors are appealing, and the special effects are suitably low-key… all that's missing from Ivan Reitman's Six Days, Seven Nights is a plot with a moment's originality. This movie takes chunks from Romancing the Sto...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-06-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/ADVENTURE
Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, ...
Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow is as stylish and atmospheric as any motion picture to arrive in theaters this year. Unfortunately, those aspects are its lone strengths. The film suffers from tepid performances, feebly drawn characters, and a meanderi...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-11-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon, ...