Actioner

Film: Sisu Cast: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Onni Tommila, Mimosa Willamo, Tatu Sinisalo, Wilhelm Enckell, Vincent Willestrand Director: Jalmari Helander Rating: 3/5 Runtime: 91 min Aatami Kopri, a Finnish soldier who fought alone in World War II and single-handedly, brutally decimated more than 300 Russians(as legend would have it), subsequently abandoned the fighting to search for gold deep in the wilderness of Lapland. After finding a rich vein of nuggets he comes up against a formidable, marauding,…

via The Safran Company An entirely forgotten action thriller that scored a meager 23 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, earned just a shade over $2 million at the box office, and resolutely failed to make the most of what was an undoubtedly ambitious gimmick wouldn’t typically stand out as one with a place in the history books, but Vehicle 19 tragically stands out as Paul Walker’s final theatrical release before his death. The South African-set genre film arrived on domestic screens in June of 2013, only weeks after…

via Sony Dwayne Johnson’s love of making movies set in the jungle has been widely memed for years, but it’s easy to forget that his first trip into the luscious rainforest came back when he was still being billed as The Rock. In fact, Peter Berg’s The Rundown was even known as Welcome to the Jungle in certain international markets, but it flopped in all of them regardless of its moniker. That’s definitely not what it deserved, though, with the $80 million action comedy having spent 20 years being supremely…

via 20th Century Fox Every genre needs to evolve and adapt with the times to stay relevant, but that doesn’t mean action junkies can’t hold up the testosterone-fueled days of the 1980s as the best decade there’s ever going to be for cinematic shoot ’em ups, and almost all of them would rank Commando very near the top of the pile. The battle between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone to establish dominance over the bullet-riddled medium was incredibly heated, to the point that the pair actively…

via EuropaCorp If you were asked to name an action thriller co-written and produced by Luc Besson set in, around, and across Europe that featured an aging star playing a retired special agent undertaking one last job in an effort to protect their daughter from unsavory forces, there’s no chance 3 Days to Kill would be the first title to come out of your mouth. The obvious answer is Taken, but based on how critics and crowds reacted to the insufferable McG’s attempt to try and piggyback on the breakout smash…

via Fortune Star Media You know a movie has left behind an incomparable legacy when not only does it gain classic status in its own right, but it leads to a handful of spiritual successors that might be even better, all while cultivating a reputation as one of the most influential entries its chosen genre has ever seen. It’s a mark few films make, but John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow did it in style. Prior to the game-changing 1986 great, the director had worked primarily in the martial arts and comedy genres, but…

via Lionsgate If you’ve seen The Running Man – the gloriously cheesy 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger cult classic adapted from a Stephen King story and directed by one half of TV’s Starsky & Hutch to hammer home its bizarre credentials – then you’ve got absolutely no reason whatsoever to watch The Condemned. Virtually identical in plot except exponentially worse, the 2007 dud stars Stone Cold Steve Austin as a death row inmate awaiting execution who gets dropped on a remote island to be plunged into a battle to…

Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Aaron Eckhart, the big-name stars of this on-the-cheap Vietnam-war actioner, are definitely on a cushy number here. They live it up above ground as, respectively, an elite tracker and a no-nonsense general, while poor old Connor Paolo has to scurry around in the Củ Chi tunnel system for most of the running time. Hopefully his contract demanded access to a chiropractor.Paolo plays US army engineer Ackermann, sent with his fellow “construction workers” into the netherworld to retrieve a stolen…

via Lionsgate Gerard Butler almost exclusively makes what could broadly be described as Gerard Butler movies, and while nobody wants to be typecast or pigeonholed, the results speak for themselves. Plane is the ass-kicking Scotsman’s latest endeavor, and it’s proven to be one of his most popular yet. At the time of writing, no film in the actor’s entire back catalogue has scored a higher audience average on Rotten Tomatoes than the 94 percent Jean-François Richet’s high-octane action thriller is currently…

via Warner Bros. Having used the double whammy of the Rocky and Rambo franchises as a springboard to becoming one of the biggest stars on the planet, Sylvester Stallone wasn’t used to being told no by the mid-1980s. And yet, being constantly turned down is pretty much the entire reason why we were given the gift of preposterous cult favorite action extravaganza Cobra. Sly was in line to play Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop, but he ended up suggesting an extensive rewrite of the script that would have turned…