Director Jon Hess’s 1993 Excessive Force is a forceful, tolerable but excessively routine and commonplace action thriller, with martial arts star Thomas Ian Griffith as Chicago cop Terry McCain, who must clear himself of charges […]
American action stars Lex Barker and Guy Madison combine their efforts for director Luigi Capuano’s handsome and enjoyable 1963 Italian swashbuckler film production The Executioner of Venice [Il Boia di Venezia]. The story by producer Ottavio […]
A chaotic cross-country escapade is the setting for director Marco Brambilla’s Excess Baggage (1997), an offbeat, fast-paced, outrageously quirky mix of caper comedy, action thriller and romance. Alicia Silverstone stars as petulant teenager Emily, who […]
Director Marco Brambilla’s 1993 sci-fi action thriller Demolition Man stars Sylvester Stallone as LA cop John Spartan, who battles ultra-crazy, ultra-violent villain Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) in 1996. They end up burning down a huge building […]
Director Ray Enright’s 1943 war movie Gung Ho! stars Randolph Scott as Colonel Thorwald, who leads a tough patriotic wartime propaganda action adventure about US Marines in the Pacific, based on the experiences of Lieutenant W […]
Director Henri Verneuil’s 1968 Franco-Mexican-Italian co-production Guns for San Sebastian [La bataille de San Sebastian] stars Anthony Quinn, who does his Zorba turn again as Leon Alastray, an escaping outlaw in 18th-century Mexico pretending to […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1969 drama The Gypsy Moths is a dull and dour action adventure-cum-soap opera about three skydivers, Mike Rettig, Joe Browdy and Malcolm Webson (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson), who arrive in […]
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