"Guy Movies!"

I think this will always be known as the ultimate guy movie... what more could you ask for in an action movie? Guy running around seiged building killing people and blowing stuff up. Personally I think this also put Bruce Willis on the map. Yeah. :D

Not your typical guy based action movie, simply because all the cheese, all the make-shift action and cartoon violence has been removed. One of the blodiest movies i've ever seen! He evaporates people! Blood litterally sloashes everywhere! And there are really really bad taste moments of brutality.
Tossing a toddler from the leg into a burning building anyone?
You will feel like you want to walk out within the first 10mins of this movie, but if you stick with it chances are watching people getting ripped apart by machine gun rounds won't really bother you anymore.
Forget your average "firing from thehip" type action movies... this one is deadly serious! Think Saving Private Ryan's opening sequence... meets... Rambo.
Makes you question how sick you are for actually liking this movie.
Had to restrain myself from shouting "Go Rambo!" and "Fuck Yeeaaah!" in a crowded cinema!
Whoa... he's 60? Watch this movie and you won't even notice. The man runs through the jungle, jumps out of the way of debris and is just generally kicks ass. Oh and after all that... its actually pretty much character driven too!
Well done Mr Stallone! Well Done Indeed!

Gone are the days when Seagal made high quality action flicks so savour this one! Ok it might not be as violent as his others but don't let that put you off, its better. For a start Seagal doesn't have long hair or a big belly (Which I know doesn't feel right) and his characterisation is dead on!
Basically... Seagal is a humble cook employed by the captain of the USS Missouri, and though he gets on with the captain he doesn't get on with the most senior officer, Busey. Yet when Busey orders a surprise party for the captain Seagal becomes suspicious. As I guess you would do when your ship is carrying atomic weapons.
Low and behold the party was all just a way of getting Tommy Lee Jones aboard the ship to steal the weapons and sell them to international bidders. And of course Seagal is an ex-navy SEAL so momentarily goes to save the day.
The performances are solid and are exactly what you would expect in an action movie. For example you knew Busey was going to be the bad guy as soon as he walked on camera. Lee Jones is a clever contemplating nemesis who throughout holds a respect for his adversary which is uncommon in your typical action flick. Jones really adds that extra dimension to his character and really holds his own persona on screen, obviously he works very well with the director.
As for the direction, the pace never stops and there are really professional shots of the ship passing which must have taken ages of concentration. The cut/scenes of action are well done and though we don't see a lot of violence we know exactly what happened to the guy who was pushed into mechanical saw!
This can really be seen as Seagal's first main-stream flick and put him in the league of other such action stars. What makes it so unique is the way he acts down to earth as the movie progresses. There is no hesitation of fight scenes, no lapse of characterisation or lack of pace which is in a majority of his other movies.
For example we see Seagal running, and kicking and lifting etc which isn't really associated with his basis of Aikido. He also has an amazing knife fight with Lee Jones! And just his use of hand-to-hand combat throughout is mesmerising.
A sophisticated action movie in every way and acts almost as an epiphany in the whole "guy-based-action-flick" franchise as a borderline case of being potentially serious movie. It really isn't, but it could be.
This is Seagal at his peak!

Sorry but I loved this movie. Pointless action at breakneck speed. Schwarzenegger has to protect witness Williams from his crooked police friends. And even though Arnie is getting on his years he can still hang outside an aeroplane (prat around in front of a CGI screen) pull sharp objects out of himself and fire two guns at once! I love it for it's tacky one liners... I love it for the fact that Arnie's hair doesn't move when he jumps around. I love it for the worst CGI animated alligators in movie history. A very guy type of movie. Sorry but if you want a no brainier action movie then this is one of the best.

YES! Fuck yes! Kung Fu + Elephants + Tony Jaa = AWESOMENESS.
This movie didn't let up for a second! It's like Rambo IV but with martial arts.
The world sooo needed a movie about Tony Jaa's missing elephants! Which reminds me... there should be more movies in general with elephants in.

Loved it... didn't quite feel like the old McClane though! Nice to know that they didn't screw up the originals. Even if it did involve surfing on a harrier jet!

Forget Under Siege... if you really want to see Steven Seagal in violent action watch this. Basically a bad guy promises his goons that he will give them a cellar full of money if they stay with him... then when the bad guy kills a cop.. (a cop who was sleeping with the bad guys girlfriend) Mr Seagal goes after him. Not much character depth but good to see Seagal play a meaner character. The fight scenes he has in this are the best i've seen them yet! Bad Italian accent though... Pointless violence done in a some sort of stylish way. Expect meat cleavers in legs and arms... and a shotgun blowing a guy's leg off... Great, gritty no brainer "guy" movie.

As a movie, it pretty much sucks. As a tribute to tacky 80's action flick wantabe's its a prime example!
Two brothers... one obviously American, the other... Belgian! Mr America just happens to be the American kickboxing champion. The other is Van- Damme. (Doesn't really make any sense but go with it.)
So both brothers go to Thailand where Van-Damme makes cheesey poses as his brother picks up a prostitute and a vivid 80's pop track blares out from the soundtrack on in the background.
Van Damme sees who his brother is going to fight, cue expressions of a constipation/shock as his brother is crippled for life before his very eyes! Now hell bent on revenge after walking around the lovely visuals of Thailand looking sad... Kurt Sloane (Damme) wants to become a kickboxer to avenge his brother.
Just about as many training scenes as a Rocky movie, complete with kicking over a palm tree. Van Damme finally gets in the ring with the dreaded Tong Po... who after about four rounds of wearing the baddies's fists out with his face Damme finally wins.
Everyone knows Damme isn't famed for his acting ability but you fail to see how good he has become compared to his debut here! The cringe-worthy dialogue and the shoddy camerawork/action/direction/story might as well have been homemade.
Crammed pack full of cheese and as far as guy movies go this your pulling out no stops stereotypical no brainer. Switch it on and switch off.
Where else can you see Damme disco dance? A dog with more acting ability then the cast put together? Damme kicking over a palm tree with his busted leg? Two different brothers acting like a gay couple and an old Muai Thai master who sets death traps around his property?
You can't take it seriously and if you don't you'll realise how fun it can be. So bad... its' good? An ultimate B-Movie!

What? Van Damme in a good action movie... surely not. For those who hate him...you get to see him die in the opening scene, Hurray! But oh no, wait, Van Damme has an exact twin, hmm that story's never been used (Double impact) and alive Van Damme being the crappy detective who he is decides he must go and find out what his brothers been up to. Turns out that his brother was mixed up in the Russian mob, even though they're in New York/France for two halves of the movie, and some dirty FBI agents also want the evidence Jean-Claude Van Corpse holds against them. Though it sounds very cliché for a typical type of guy movie it was actually very well strung out. The action starts as soon as the movie starts, and whereas in some of his movies Van Damme gets kicked around a bit before doing anything here he pretty much holds his own. The movie does actually have a lot of action and this adds to the overall momentum. Would have been nicer to see more of his "famous" Kickboxing skills but oh well, the only time they're on full show is when hes fighting another guy...in a sauna wearing only a towel... and that just screams GAY to me. Natasha Henstridge kinda floats around but apart from the poor gratuitous sex scene there wasn't much call for her. Good explosions, great car chases, violent fight scenes.

Ok this movie is cheesier than a cheese factory in meltdown mode. Each and every actor gives what can only be described as a comic strip performance. Actually it makes you want to cringe at its attempt at tongue in cheek humour.
But it's Snipes v's Stallone! and lots of shit blows up! That's all it is... a cheep way to get Stallone and Snipes to face off against each other. Even more cartoon violence. Get in!
Ok so the fact that the costumes are sooooooooooo bad that they look like pijama suits and Stallone goes to dinner in a bin bag.
Bullock and Bratt act better in Miss Congeniality!
And finally a futuristic vision that is just so unrealistic in every possible sense it actually forces your brain to switch off.
It is everything you could possibly want from a Stallone popcorn flick... except the popcorn. It's not quite the cringe-a-minuite masterpiece of Kickboxer but it's close.

And what is even better than all of the bad acting and bombastic action sequences is my drinking game!
Ok this is what you've been waiting for....I call it...
DRINK ALONG WITH DEMOLITION MAN.!!! (Ok so the title needs work)
Basically every time they mention the name JOHN SPARTAN or SIMON PHOENIX you have to drink a shot!

If someone says "Be well" you have to drink two shots!

And when the horrendous horendous line of "You're on Tv" comes up, when Stallone hits Snipes with a tv during a fight scene, you and your buddies have to do three shots and whoever finishes last has to do doubles for the rest of the night!
You can play with friends or own your own! Either way by the end of the movie you won't even care at how bad it was.
Ah Warner Brothers you have embraced us with another 90'S classic crappy action movie. We love you.

Yay, a fairly good action (guy) movie. Jason Statham is great in first action leading role. The plot is simplistic: Transporter... transports things... falls for the woman he's transporting... when the bad guys try to kill him he goes to rescue her and take them out. The only problem is the character of Qi Shu... is just a bit meh... and goes from serious to being daft. Still... Great fight scenes. Explosions. A cool opening car chase. Statham plays a really good character, and there are strong hints of the characters past. Little too long chase scene on a motorway towards the end... but all in all... very good.

Thought it was going to be better than it actually was. Jason Statham was just a bit too angry and his character totally lacked because of it. Amy Smart stole the show as the blonde bimbo figure and she made it look so easy! Very funny in places with it's mix between reality and drug infested fantasy. Occasionally very violent, and some great scenes of him pumping himself up! The action doesn't stop and the movie is really fast paced. However I hated the ending... for those who have seen it... is he alive or dead? I can't really make it out. Not your usual type of guy movie. Lacked in some areas but made up in others.

Mr Seagal and his Beast Of a Belly this time take the matter personally after his daughter is kidnapped along with a senator's daughter... by gangsters! Ah but they have lousy timing as Seagal is now ex-CIA and therefore can do and will do anything to get his daughter back. Thought his movie is a sitting cliché, it is really good... for a no brainer action movie. Even though it is obvious when Seagal's (thinner) stunt double is brought in to do the kicks and jumps you just go along with it. Simply because the movie is a combination of non stop guns and fighting. The close up fight scenes where Seagal does his natural thing are far more superior than Siu-Tang Ching's directorial input of the wire type/slow mo "push cart shooting"/slicing arrow in half with a sword stuff but all in all the movie works pretty well. The movie only has two faults, the first is the final fight scene where everything is just totally exaggerated to the point that its "crouching tiger" but not in a good way. The second is that Seagal seems to slip in and out of characters throughout, one min hes kinda sappy (something unusual) and the next hes kinda relentless... this is due to the poor script. However it still one of the better no brainer action flicks out there.