GoldenEye (1995)
[6] Pierce Brosnan (TV's Remington Steele) makes his debut as James Bond in GoldenEye, the first Bond film after a then-record 6 year gap. He finds himself battling a former fellow MI6 agent (Sean Bean) who has teamed up with…
Sunshine (2007)
[8] Before winning the Oscar for directing Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle teamed with The Beach author Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina) to give us this underseen and under-appreciated sci-fi thriller. As the Earth's sun dies and sends humanity into an…
Licence to Kill (1989)
[7] Timothy Dalton is out for revenge in his second and final outing as James Bond. Continuing the more serious tone set by The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill opens in the Florida Keys with a fatal attack on Bond's…
The Living Daylights (1987)
[6] Timothy Dalton (The Lion in Winter) relieves Roger Moore in the perennial James Bond franchise. In the 15th film in the series, Agent 007 helps smuggle a defecting general (Jeroen Krabbe) out of Russia only to learn the man is…
Innerspace (1987)
[7] In this comedic sci-fi action/adventure from director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling), Dennis Quaid plays a disgraced pilot who volunteers to get miniaturized and injected into the body of a rabbit to advance scientific research. But when bad guys…
Lost in Space (1998)
[5] Director Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, The Ghost and the Darkness) tackles this big budget reboot of Irwin Allen's 1960s television show about a family of space explorers who get lost among the stars. William Hurt and Mimi Rogers play…
Objective, Burma! (1945)
[7] Errol Flynn leads a special ops platoon who parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma during World War II. Their mission is to blow up an important radar station, then make their way to an abandoned runway for pickup. But when the…
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
[4] Treat Williams (Smooth Talk, Deep Rising) and Robert Duvall star in this fictionalized imagining of what happened to the infamous 'D.B. Cooper' after he parachuted from a Boeing 727 with $200,000 of the airline's money in 1971. The film…
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023)
[7] The seventh (and reportedly penultimate) Mission: Impossible film doesn't quite reach the series high achieved by 2018's Fallout, but it's still a solidly entertaining action/adventure flick. Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt and his trusted teammates (including Ving Rhames and Simon…
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
[8] The sixth Mission: Impossible movie takes everything that was great about the previous entry and lifts it to even greater heights. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, as does the series' terrific ensemble of supporting talent, including Ving Rhames,…