Action
The enduring popularity of the action movie has drenched the genre in cliche yet glorious invention abounds around the globe - fighting is the international language. Fashionable styles of film-making come and go but action movies just change their shoes and remain centre-stage.
Great glittering galaxies of genre from across the Alice universe have been gleaned to assemble a suitably kick-ass selection of ballistic ballet and poetic pugilism to scintillate the delicate senses of our discerning clientele. Are you ready to rumble? Are you feeling lucky, Sir/Madame? Our suggestions for a hearty evening of action are listed below.
Pictured: Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang springs into action. Sean Connery as agent 007 in "Diamonds are Forever" (1971).
Ronin (1998)
7.3/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce,...
Robert De Niro plays a freelance secret agent hired along with some international hitmen by an Irish terrorist to retrieve a mysterious briefcase. The... Read more
Ronin ( Blu-ray ) (1998)
7.3/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce,...
Robert De Niro plays a freelance secret agent hired along with some international hitmen by an Irish terrorist to retrieve a mysterious briefcase. The... Read more
Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018)
7.5/10
Director: Milorad Krstic
A psychotherapist suffers violent nightmares inspired by legendary works of art. Four of his patients, expert thieves, offer to steal the works since... Read more
Rumble in Hong Kong (1974)
Director: Hdeng Tsu
Starring: Jackie Chan, John Chang, Charlie Chin, Phoenix Chen
Before "The Bronx" Jackie Chan displayed his prowess as the bodyguard of a Hong Kong gangster who goes against a tough female cop in order to protect... Read more
Rumble in the Bronx (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Stanley Tong
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Francoise Yip, Bill Tung
Jackie Chan's breakthrough into the Western market comes with this comic-book tale of him arriving from Hong Kong to attend a family wedding but getti... Read more
Run All Night (2015)
6.6/10
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Boyd Holbrook, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bruce M...
Liam Neeson has just one spectacularly eventful night to protect his family! Not so long ago, prolific Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) earn... Read more
Run All Night (Blu-ray) (2015)
6.6/10
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Boyd Holbrook, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bruce M...
Liam Neeson has just one spectacularly eventful night to protect his family! Not so long ago, prolific Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) earn... Read more
Runaway (1984)
5.9/10
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley
Michael Crichton ('Jurassic Park', 'Timeline') wrote and directed this sci-fi thriller. Tom Selleck is Jack Ramsey, a cop and single dad in a future... Read more
Running Scared (2006)
7.4/10
Director: Wayne Kramer
Starring: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny...
Paul Walker is low-level mobster Joey Gazelle, assigned to get rid of a gun used to kill a corrupt cop. When his neighbour's kid steals it to shoot hi... Read more
Running With The Devil (2019)
5.4/10
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne
A large batch of cocaine smuggled from Mexico to Canada through the United States is mysteriously lost along the way. The head of the drug cartel inst... Read more