Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
Crime Spree (2003)
- Dir. Brad Mirman
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel, Johnny Hallyday…
- Slick comedy crime caper focused on a group of French thieves on a heist in Chicago where they mistakenly rob the head honcho of the Mafia and end up…
Daredevil (2003)
- Dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Feat. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell…
- The darkest tinged Marvel Comics adaptation yet, with Ben Affleck doing a sterling job of playing the titular superhero, a blind lawyer turned…
Deadly Cargo (Cámara Oscura) (2003)
- Dir. Pau Freixas
Feat. Unax Ugalde, Adria Collado
- Two friends on a scuba–diving trip get into troubled waters when they turn up a body, accidentally destroy their ship and happened to be…
Fearless (Jet Li's Fearless; Huo Yuan Jia) (2003)
- Dir. Ronnie Yu
Feat. Jet Li
- Lively martial–arts epic which is reportedly Jet Li's final offering of screen 'wushu' (traditional Chinese fighting) , retells the story of…
Foolproof (2003)
- Dir. William Phillips
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet
- A slick if stereotypical heist thriller, in which a group of brainy thieves plan 'foolproof' heists, but find their ambitions go awry when their next…
Grand Theft Parsons (2003)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Christina Applegate, Robert Forster…
- A blackly comic account of the wordly departure of country–folk–rock pioneer Gram Parsons, who after perishing of a drug overdose, had…
Hidalgo (2003)
- Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard
- Grandly conceived, this period adventure epic has a troubled 'Pony Express' rider (Mortensen) summoned to compete in an epic 3000–mile race…
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin…
- Frantic action–comedy, hardly distinctive for its 'in–shop' Hollywood setting, but with enough gags and star pratfalls from the leads to…
Hulk (2003)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte…
- The thinking person's superhero actioner, this boldly revises the 1960s Marvel Comics icon, a mild–mannered scientist who, when triggered or…
Infernal Affairs 2 (Mou gaan dou II) (2003)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Feat. Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Carina Lau…
- Solid prequel to the hit Hong Kong policier, goes back in time to the era of the 1991 and moves forward in three acts to the Chinese handover,…