Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2199 Films to Buy & Rent
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Brad Pitt, David Thewlis
- On the eve of WWII, Austrian nationalist Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) embarks on a mountain–climbing odyssey in the Himalayas, where he is…
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
- Dir. Jan De Bont
Feat. Jason Patric, Sandra Bullock, Temuera Morrison
- SPEED–on–water is everything the first one isn't – derivative, soulless, slackly plotted, and unintentionally funny. Also, Keanu…
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh…
- Pierce Brosnan is back for a second round as 007, this time embroiled in the war–waging activities of an unscrupulous media baron (Jonathan…
Vanishing Point (1997)
- Dir. Charles Robert Carner
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Christine Elise, Steve Railsback…
- Made–for–TV reprise of the 1971 transcontinental driving classic, with the chiselled Mortensen taking the mad dog role of Kowalski, now a…
Volcano (1997)
- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, John Carroll Lynch
- A film that presupposes that LA sits on top of a load of steaming bile. A Heston–esque Tommy Lee Jones reigns in the non–stop disasters…
Young Thugs - Innocent Blood (1997)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoto Takenaka
- Gangster shenanigans with cult dir. Takashi, this time taking a more measured approach to the story of four young friends who drift together and…
Andersonville (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Jarrod Emick
- TV western set during the American Civil War, about a group of Union soldiers who are sent to a Confederate prison camp near Andersonville, Georgia…
Blade, The (1996)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Xin Xin Xiong, Moses Chan, Man Cheuk Chiu
- Honour and retribution are the key themes in this densely–plotted, straight–faced actioner set in a mythic–historical setting.…
Broken Arrow (1996)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis…
- When John Travolta nicks off with a couple of nuclear warheads, its enough to transform his (former) air–force buddy (Christian Slater) into…
Chain Reaction (1996)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz
- The science–slip and fugitive genres converge in this rather silly vehicle for a post–SPEED Keanu Reeves. His innocent,…