491. Dragons Forever ( Fei lung mang jeung )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Corey Yuen
Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Biao Yuen, Pauline Yeung, Deannie Yip, Wah Yuen
Plot: A chemical plant in Hong Kong with questionable ethics hires a young, hot-shot lawyer to protect them. But when the lawyer falls for a woman who will stop at nothing to get the plant shut down, he looks into the issue himself and doesn't like what he finds. Calling in his two most trusted friends Samo and Biao - he will get to the bottom of things, no matter the cost.
492. Ladder 49
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jay Russell
Actors: John Travolta, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Patrick, Jacinda Barrett, Billy Burke, Kevin Chapman
Plot: Two firefighters, one young and one old, go through the daily grinds of being a full time firefighter while the older preps the younger for a full life of action and drama.
493. Twister
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jan de Bont
Actors: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck
Plot: Two meteorologists seek the perfect tornado in order to launch sensors that will help them study these forces of nature.
494. Oblivion
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Actors: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo
Plot: After devastating war that brought Earth on the brink of extinction, the remaining people are assigned to protect the last useful sources of energy. That is until a technician on the ground discovers something that changes everything he has been told.
495. I Am Number Four
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: D.J. Caruso
Actors: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer, Callan McAuliffe, Kevin Durand
Plot: Nine Lorien aliens flee to Earth after their home planet was destroyed by another alien species, the Mogadorians. On Earth, the Loriens have superhuman powers as they become adults. The Mogadorians have followed the Loriens to Earth in order to kill them in succession. The first three have been killed, but Number Four is not willing to give up so easily.
496. Civil War
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Garland
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nick Offerman, Jesse Plemons
Plot: In a near-future America torn apart by a new civil war, a group of
military-embedded journalists goes cross-country to reach DC before an
impending attack by a rebel faction and their story is fraught with
horrors and danger that war brings.
497. My Way ( Mai wei )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Je-kyu Kang
Actors: Dong-gun Jang, Jô Odagiri, Bingbing Fan, In-kwon Kim, Seung-hyeon Han, Jin-seok Yang
Plot: Follows the life of Jun-shik Kim and Tatsuo Hasegawa from dreams of
Olympic glory to the beaches of Normandy.
498. Spectre
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Monica Bellucci, Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista
Plot: James Bond is on the trail of a sinister organization after receiving a cryptic message from his past. Meanwhile, M battles political forces in order to keep the agency alive, and the closer Bond gets to the truth, he realizes just how much of a global threat SPECTRE represents.
499. Battle of the Bulge
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ken Annakin
Actors: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, George Montgomery, Charles Bronson
Plot: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The Battle of the Bulge" shows this conflict from the perspective of an American intelligence officer as well as from a German Panzer Commander.
500. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sam Liu
Actors: Clancy Brown, Tim Daly, Kevin Conroy, Xander Berkeley, Corey Burton, Allison Mack
Plot: In the ultimate play for power, megalomaniacal villain Lex Luthor pits Superman and Batman against the public by stripping away their hard-earned superhero status and re-branding them as rogue outcasts who can't be trusted.
