Mel Gibson on an outback highway in the film that cost $350,000 and started a franchise.
A family of retired superheroes in suburbia; Pixar does a Bond film.
Wire-work swordplay across the bamboo forests of Qing dynasty China.
A spy thriller in which half the action runs backwards through time.
The revenge saga turns talky, cruel and unexpectedly tender.
A freed slave and a bounty hunter ride into the antebellum South.
The Bride wakes from a coma and starts down her list, katana first.
Pre-crime police in 2054 Washington, and the cop they come for.
Gotham falls and rises in the closing chapter of the Nolan trilogy.
Maximus's quest for revenge in ancient Rome (2000).
Kurosawa's epic of villagers and hired swords (1954).
An FBI agent and a terrorist swap faces, and both actors play both parts.
A Detroit cop in Beverly Hills, an Axel F synth line, and Eddie Murphy improvising most of it.
Guy Ritchie’s bare-knuckle Holmes, with the fight choreography narrated before it happens.
Besson’s orange-haired future: a cab driver, a diva’s aria and Gary Oldman with a plastic haircut.
Alien ships over every capital city, and a July 4th counterattack flown by a marine and a cable guy.
Get off my plane: the president fights hijackers at thirty thousand feet.
A secret agent whose wife thinks he sells computers, and a Harrier hovering over Miami.
A British agent fights her way through Berlin in November 1989, in one seven-minute stairwell take.
A surgeon framed for his wife’s murder, and the marshal who does not care whether he did it.
Two agents in black suits neuralyse New York; the alien comedy that defined a summer.
A burnt-out bodyguard in Mexico City tears the city apart looking for the girl he was hired to protect.
Maverick, Goose and the volleyball; the film that made naval aviation a recruiting poster.
Lucius comes back to the arena twenty years on, with rhinos and a sea battle in the Colosseum.
A CIA operative in Jordan invents a terrorist group to flush out a real one.
Demi Moore shaves her head to get through SEAL selection as a senator’s test case.
The archer before the legend: Crowe comes back from the Crusades to a bankrupt England.
The last humans circle a frozen Earth on a train, and the tail carriage fights its way forward.
Two New York cops escort a yakuza home to Osaka and lose him on the tarmac.
Eight films of Ethan Hunt, De Palma to the sunken submarine.
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