70) Surviving the Game (1994)
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Writer: Eric Bernt
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton
Action Sub-genre: Man is the Deadliest Prey, Adventure, Thriller
Synopsis: “A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.”
69) Excessive Force (1993)
Director: Jon Hess
Writer: Thomas Ian Griffith
Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, James Earl Jones, Lance Henriksen
Action Sub-genre: Cop, Thriller
Synopsis: “Chicago PD detective Terry McCain is mercilessly efficient against serious criminals, therefore hated. After a major coup, his personal love-ones are targeted, a rookie partner is bomb-murdered. Realizing there must be an accomplice within the force, he goes undercover. Slowly it becomes clear he’s up against a monster-conspiracy, with branches in all power houses.”
68) Timecop (1994)
Director: Peter Hyams
Writers: Mark Verheiden, Mike Richardson
Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver
Action Sub-genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Synopsis: “Max Walker, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who’s intent on changing the past to control the future.”
67) 48 Hrs. (1982)
Director: Walter Hill
Writers: Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill , Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza
Stars: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O’Toole
Action Sub-genre: Buddy Cop, Comedy
Synopsis: “A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.”
66) Pray for Death (1985)
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: James Booth
Stars: Shô Kosugi, James Booth, Donna Kei Benz
Action Sub-genre: Ninja, Martial Arts
Synopsis: “After a peace loving Japanese immigrant and his family become victims of a crime syndicate, a master ninja emerges.”
65) Stone Cold (1991)
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Walter Doniger
Stars: Brian Bosworth, Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe
Action Sub-genre: Cop
Synopsis: “A tough Alabama cop is blackmailed by the FBI into going undercover in a violent Mississippi biker gang.”
Stone Cold: When Brian “The Boz” Bosworth Became an Action Star
64) The Raid (2011)
Director: Gareth Evans
Writer: Gareth Evans
Stars: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy
Action Sub-genre: Shoot ’em Up, Martial Arts
Synopsis: “A S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.”
The Raid Remake: Director Joe Carnahan Reveals Key Plot Details
63) Tango & Cash (1989)
Directors: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Albert Magnoli
Writer: Randy Feldman
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher
Action Sub-genre: Buddy Cop
Synopsis: “Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a mismatched LAPD crime-fighting duo has to put its differences aside to even the score with the evil kingpin who put them behind bars once and for all.”
62) Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
Director: Ted Post
Writers: Bruce Cohn, Mark Medoff
Stars: Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, James Franciscus
Action Sub-genre: Vigilante, Revenge, Thriller, Special Forces
Synopsis: “An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.
61) The Running Man (1987)
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writers: Stephen King (novel), Steven E. de Souza (screenplay)
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto
Action Sub-genre: Sci-Fi, Man is the Deadliest Prey
Synopsis: “A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.”
wow this is one screwed up list, cobra #1 really? this movie never even got a sequel because it was one of stallones worst ever, picking it over terminator and die hard, again WOW