Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
Trench, The (1999)
- Dir. William Boyd
Feat. Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer…
- WWI film set in the 48 hours leading up to the Battle of the Somme, in which the British Army lost the greatest number of soldiers in a single day of…
Wild Wild West (1999)
- Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh…
- The star and director of MEN IN BLACK and recoupled for this Sci–fi–Western–spoof, first aired as a popular,…
World Is Not Enough, The (1999)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Robert Carlyle, Sophie Marceau…
- Pierce Brosnan is back for a third time in the most cartoonish entry in many a season, with in–jokes, sexual allusions and fire–power…
Armageddon (1998)
- Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton…
- After the tragedy of DEEP IMPACT, we get to witness the end of the world again, this time Jerry Bruckheimer–style (CON AIR, THE ROCK). That…
Assignment, The (1998)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley
- International espionage flick that revels in the skillful, old–fashioned flourishes of an elaborate terrorist caper. Tourist Aidan Quinn gets…
Avengers, The (1998)
- Dir. Jeremiah Chechik
Feat. Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes, Sean Connery
- Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes indulge hip nostalgia in this critically–savaged update on the classic 60s TV series. Replicating the…
Big Hit, The (1998)
- Dir. Kirk Wong
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate
- Mark Wahlberg headlines this fast–paced comic actioner, playing a super–polite hitman who breakdances his way through some heavy gunplay…
Blackjack (1998)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon
- Action dir. John Woo moonlights with this Canadian telemovie that has beefcake security Dolph Lundgren contracted to protect a supermodel marked for…
Blade (1998)
- Dir. Stephen Norrington
Feat. Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Udo Kier
- Half–vampire/half–human Wesley Snipes straps on the body–armour and weaponry in this doomsday duel for possession of the Earth,…
Bullet Ballet (1998)
- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Hisashi Igawa
- After his fiancee commits suicide, a young man tries to obtain a gun so that he can do the same, and in the process becomes embroiled in warfare…