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Subgenre Sampler

 
SnakeskinSnakeskin (2001) Recommended
Dir. Gillian Ashurst
Feat. Melanie Lynskey, Dean O'Gorman, Boyd Kestner
Searching for a little excitement in those hills due west of Christchurch, NZ, Melanie Lynsky and Dean O’Gorman are sucked into a series of private…
Spy GameSpy Game (2001)
Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Brad Pitt, Robert Redford, Catherine McCormack
King–of–flash, dir. Scott (TOP GUN) contrives a drama around super–spy Robert Redford’s last day on the job, having to rescue…
SwordfishSwordfish (2001)
Dir. Dominic Sena
Feat. John Travolta, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman
Slick and stupid action–thriller in the post–Bruckheimer mould, teaming Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and John Travolta for a bank job (with…
Thirteen DaysThirteen Days (2001)
Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Dylan Baker
The thirteen tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis – the 1962 showdown between Kennedy and Krushchev – are invested with heroic intensity by…
Till Human Voices Wake UsTill Human Voices Wake Us (2001)
Dir. Michael Petroni
Feat. Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter
A supernaturally–tinged drama in which psychiatrist Guy Pearce returns his hometown and the spectres of a doomed teenage romance. Mourning…
To End All WarsTo End All Wars (2001)
Dir. David L Cunningham
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciaran McMenamin
Underrated drama based around the infamous building of the bridge over the River Kwai by allied POWs during WW2, 'encouraged' by their Japanese…
Training DayTraining Day (2001)
Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Snoop Dogg
Denzel Washington luxuriates in an Oscar–winning performance as a slimeball LA cop, who casually metes out brutal street–justice at every…
Tunnel, TheTunnel, The (2001) Recommended
Dir. Roland Suso Richter
Feat. Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz
An extended though by no means deep excavation of German Cold War history, in which an East German swimmer (Ferch) defects to West Berlin in 1961 and…
Vanilla SkyVanilla Sky (2001)
Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Lee, Cameron Diaz
A straight Hollywood remake of the Spanish sci–fi thriller OPEN YOUR EYES by the director of ALMOST FAMOUS – the result of which plays like…
Vector File, TheVector File, The (2001)
Dir. Eliot Christopher
Feat. Casper Van Dien, Catherine Oxenberg
A scientific–political thriller concerning a mutant strain of smallpox virus sought after by Russian bio–terrorists. B–grade…

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