What if there weren't one universe, but many? Parallel dimensions exist, and in each of them an alternate version of you lives. The only group allowed to travel between these universes is the MVA, and only for police purposes. Life-force is divided equally between each version of you. If one version dies, those remaining inherit more life force and become stronger. Martial arts wizard Jet Li stars as Gabriel Yulaw, a former MVA agent imprisoned after growing power hungry and killing over 100 alternate versions of himself. Yulaw escapes and sets out to destroy the last remaining version of himself, Gabe Law (also played by Li). If he manages to do it, he'll become invincible. The axis on which all life turns is threatened in this hypothetical action thriller.
The sacred statue of Ong Bak is stolen from a poor village by a profiteering businessman. The artifact's loss brings fear and sadness to the villagers, who use it in a ceremony that brings rain to their drought-ravaged fields. Ting (Tony Jaa) is chosen to recover the statue. The destiny of man and object are linked. As an infant, Ting was left on the temple steps. Raised by monks in the statue's constant company, Ting was schooled in the Muay Thai fighting style, though told not to use it in combat. He'll need to remember his teachings (and forget others) as he pursues the stolen treasure though a seedy Bangkok underworld. With no stunt doubles and no computer trickery, this martial arts action is as real as it gets.
Set sail for an epic adventure on the high seas with oddball Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and his crew of ruffians! After the wily Captain Barbosa steals Sparrow's ship, the Black Pearl, he uses it to attack the town of Port Royal and kidnap the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth (Keira Knightley). Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) joins forces with Sparrow in a gallant attempt to rescue her, unaware that a cursed treasure has doomed Barbosa and his crew to live forever as undead skeletons. Sparrow and Turner race toward the mysterious Isla de Muerta in an attempt to recover their lost ship, lift the curse, and, of course, rescue the beautiful girl.
The '80s R-rated action genre belonged to John McTiernan, director of Predator and Die Hard. Predator was his sci-fi hit starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in one of his most famous roles as a U.S. Army commando up against a chameleon-like space alien in the jungles of South America. When Schwarzenegger leads his men on a mission against guerillas, he discovers a "predator" alien who wears a cloaking device and makes sport out of killing and skinning humans. It's a grisly state of affairs that has our hero mostly on the run as his men are slowly picked off. As hope runs thin, this classic action thriller explodes in the final showdown.
Quentin Tarantino's stylized 1994 piece of cinematic candy became one of the landmark films of the 1990s. The film's intertwining, out-of-order storyline follows a cast of underworld characters dealing with the consequences of choice and the search for redemption. Gangsters Jules Winnfield (an electric Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) need to recover a briefcase for their boss, crime lord Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). They detour through encounters with small-time coffee-shop robbers, a washed up boxer, Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), and Vega's night-gone-wrong with Wallace's wife, Mia (Uma Thurman). Packed with jarring scenes and unforgettable quips, Pulp Fiction earned hordes of Oscar nominations, spawned a new style of movie dialogue, and put Travolta back on Hollywood's A-list.
Lisa Reinert (Rachel McAdams) settles in for an overnight red-eye flight bound for Miami following her grandmother's funeral in Dallas. Onboard, she meets Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy). Initially charmed by the stranger, Reinert gets a shock when he produces her father's wallet. Rippner demands her help. He's out to kill the Director of Homeland Security, who's staying at the posh Miami hotel Reinert manages. If she doesn't cooperate, Rippner will have her father killed. Caught at 30,000 feet between two horrible outcomes, Reinert has nowhere to turn, and precious little time before the flight lands. Horror master Wes Craven uses his spine-tingling skills to charge this in-flight thriller with plenty of suspense.
Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale star in this action-packed dragon-slaying battle between man and beast. When a tunneling project in present-day London uncovers a centuries-old fire-breathing beast, 12-year old Quinn (Bale) sees his mother lose her life protecting him from the unearthed dragon. Flash forward 20 years to a dragon-charred future, where Quinn works as a Fire Chief, helping humanity to survive in remote outposts and eke out an existence safe from constant dragon attacks. One day, a hotshot American militiaman, Van Zan (McConaughey) shows up with a group of slayers, and enlists Quinn's help on his quest to slay the beasts once and for all and save mankind.
In the Chinese criminal underworld, John Lee - portrayed by Hong Kong action star Chow Yun-Fat - is a hit man who never misses. Now Lee wants out of the game, and his crime boss, Mr. Wei, will release him on one condition: Kill the son of a cop who killed Wei's son. When Lee has a sudden change of heart about the boy, he finds himself the target of Mr. Wei's rage - and of replacement killers intent on murdering his own family back home. To get a passport quickly and save them, Lee seeks the help of forger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino). With both the assassins and the police hot on their trail, Lee and Coburn must use every gun they have to shoot their way out!
Milla Jovovich pumps up the girl power in this action-horror favorite based on the popular Resident Evil video game and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Alice (Jovovich) loses her memory when she is exposed to nerve gas. Rain (Michelle Rodriguez) leads an elite military unit sent by the Umbrella Corporation into "The Hive" laboratory where they find Alice. Alice slowly regains her memory as she helps Rain battle a horrible experiment gone wrong. The Red Queen computer has shut down the special facility because an evil experimental virus has turned all the scientists and workers at "The Hive" into man-eating zombie mutants! But the action really gets furious as Alice and Rain face the zombies, the mad Red Queen and a virus that could destroy the entire planet.
The beautiful, butt-kicking Milla Jovovich is back in this sequel to the 2002 Resident Evil movie, and the nightmare is clearly not over. The Umbrella Corporation sends in a team of investigators to the destroyed underground lab in Racoon City, and unwittingly unleashes the remaining zombies into the city. Umbrella evacuates their employees and shuts everyone else inside the underground lab, including Alice (Jovovich), tough cop Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) and a dwindling handful of survivors. They will have to think fast and shoot faster to stay alive in the face of demon dogs, zombies, "licker" mutants, and an all-new threat, the seemingly unstoppable Nemesis!
James Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is the best in the business. It just so happens his business is bustin' heads. Dalton is a professional "cooler," a hired muscle man who works with bar bouncers to cool heads, often by cracking 'em. The Double Deuce bar in Tillman, Missouri could use a guy like that due to nightly scuffles. The bar's owner, Frank Tilghman (Kevin Tighe) brings Dalton in all the way from Memphis to restore order to his watering hole. Dalton's soon embroiled in a struggle that goes way beyond barroom brawls, finding himself up against Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara), the Jasper crime lord who has the town in a vice grip. But this time, Wesley has strong-armed the wrong man.
In the not-too-distant future. Detroit is drowning in crime. Officer Alex J. Murphy (Peter Weller) becomes the future of law enforcement when drug dealers gun him down. What's left of Murphy's body is reconstructed with robotic parts. Part man, part machine, and all cop, Murphy, now RoboCop, struggles to find what remains of his memory while seeking revenge against his killers. RoboCop is a huge success as a crime-fighter, and soon becomes a valuable PR weapon in the city's quest to deploy an even more powerful, but glitchy, crime-fighting cyborg. Director Paul Verhoeven's starkly violent vision was layered with satire, making RoboCop one of the landmark sci-fi films of its era.