241. Crimson Tide
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Matt Craven, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini
Plot: Hackman vs Washington: a showdown hundreds of feet beneath the ocean. Ordered to unleash their nuclear payload onto a former Soviet army base, two principled men fight for what they believe is the right thing to do.
242. Underworld: Evolution
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Len Wiseman
Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Shane Brolly, Bill Nighy, Derek Jacobi
Plot: Working together to expose the truth about their bloodlines, vampire
warrior Selene and werewolf hybrid Michael learn the backstory to the
ongoing conflict between the patrician Death Dealers and the barbarous
Lycans.
243. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm
Actors: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda, Mark Hamill
Plot: As Gotham's crime lords begin showing up dead Bruce Wayne finds love, but must continue to protect Gotham as the new menace, Phantasm, also stalks the night. Things get even more problematic when Phantasm attracts the Joker's attention.
244. Magnum Force
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Post
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
Plot: A wayward cop is enforcing vigilante justice by assassinating several criminals who manage to escape punishment by slipping through legal loopholes and "Dirty" Harry Callahan is on the case.
245. King Kong
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis
Plot: During the depression in 1930s New York, a down-on-her-luck actress runs into an ambitious film director whose plan to film on a remote island takes on unexpected dangers.
246. We Were Soldiers
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Randall Wallace
Actors: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell
Plot: One of the first battles of the American involvement in the Vietnam war.
247. Hellboy
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor
Plot: During the waning years of WWII the Nazis used black magic to conjure up a demon, but he is rescued by a group of allies and grows to be a champion of justice but evil forces conspire to bring out his dark side once again.
248. Young Guns
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christopher Cain
Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko
Plot: Follows the life of Billy the Kid and his gang of outlaws.
249. Troy
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Peterson
Actors: Brad Pitt, Brian Cox, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Brendan Gleeson, Peter O'Toole
Plot: Paris, a Trojan prince, has stolen Helen, the Queen of Sparta. The Greeks
unite and send a massive fleet and army, led by their greatest warrior
Achilles, to defend their honor.
250. The Professionals
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Woody Strode, Claudia Cardinale
Plot: A rich Texan hires a band of four men to rescue his wife from Mexican revolutionaries. The men accept the job but learn the "victim" may not be so innocent.
