The Jackal (1997)

The Jackal (1997)

[4] Bruce Willis and Richard Gere co-star in this wobbly, underwhelming thriller about an imprisoned IRA fighter (Gere) who helps the FBI hunt down a mysterious assassin known as 'The Jackal' (Willis) before he kills a high-profile political target at the behest…
Executive Decision (1996)

Executive Decision (1996)

[5] Kurt Russell headlines this derivative action thriller about an intelligence officer who joins a commando team on a mission to board a hijacked airliner before it delivers a deadly payload. The cast is Executive Decision's greatest asset. Russell carries the piece,…
Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

[5] Sigourney Weaver returns for her fourth (and thus far final) Alien film, resurrected by scientists seeking to extract the alien queen she was carrying at the end of Alien 3 when she heroically back-dived into a vat of molten lead. After…
Dick Tracy (1990)

Dick Tracy (1990)

[6] Warren Beatty directs and stars in Disney's big budget adaptation of Chester Gould's 1930s comic strip about a square-jawed detective caught in a constant battle of whack-a-mole with a horde of colorful gangsters. The screenplay by Top Gun's Jim Cash and…
Alien 3 (1992)

Alien 3 (1992)

[6] After surviving two terrifying rounds with the alien xenomorphs, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on an all-male prison planet where a few dozen convicts have found God in an abandoned mining facility. But God can't save them from the alien that stowed…
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

[5] Bruce Willis reunites as rogue New York cop John McClane for the third Die Hard film, reuniting with John McTiernan, director of the original film, and working from an original spec script by Jonathan Hensleigh (Armageddon, The Saint) that was modified…
A Perfect World (1993)

A Perfect World (1993)

[8] Clint Eastwood directs and costars with Kevin Costner in A Perfect World. Costner plays an escaped convict who kidnaps a young boy (T.J. Lowther) as hostage while he tries to flee Texas for Alaska. Eastwood plays the ranger in pursuit, accompanied…
Independence Day (1996)

Independence Day (1996)

[8] The disaster film is alive and well in this summer blockbuster in which evil aliens threaten to destroy Earth, leaving it up to a rag-tag team of politicians, soldiers, and scientists (plus a drunken crop-duster and a pole dancer!), to save…
Scream 2 (1997)

Scream 2 (1997)

[7] Director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and screenwriter Kevin Williamson (Dawson's Creek) ratchet up the chills and thrills nicely in the first (and best) sequel in the Scream franchise. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is off to college, but Ghost…
The Blair Witch Project (1999)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

[8] While it wasn't technically the first 'found footage' horror film, The Blair Witch Project gets credit for popularizing the subgenre, capturing the attention of audiences worldwide with its cogent, documentary-style approach to its subject matter. The film appears to be shot…