UAMC Discussion on Sylvester Stallone’s greatest actioner. Rambo: Sir, do we get to win this time? Trautman: This time it’s up to you. Note: This post is a follow-up to a blog posted last year, entitled “The Top 5 Most Ultimate Action Movies of All Time.” While I wholeheartedly appreciate the author’s enthusiasm for the…
Bloodsport screenwriter Sheldon Lettich chats about his action movie classics. Best known as the writer of Bloodsport, he’s collaborated with Jean-Claude Van Damme on a raft of stone-cold classics starring the Muscles from Brussels. Those Van Damme credits include Lionheart (AWOL), Double Impact and Legionnaire, while Sheldon Lettich has also worked with Sylvester Stallone on…
Tom Cruise as the new action genre hero in Mission Impossible (1996) The year was 1996 and the action movie was in not in good shape. At the box office all the great action franchises seemed to have fallen silent. The great action movie titans seemed to have had their heyday. The Die Hard franchise…
Clayne Crawford is out, Seann William Scott is in One ultimate bright spot for action movie fans in today’s modern pop culture has been the surprisingly well-received Lethal Weapon TV series. The show, which is on network television station FOX, has found a space for Shane Black’s buddy cop classic – Lethal Weapon – to…
Before Denzel’s Reboot There Was Blood and Wine (1987) We here at the Ultimate Action Movie Club are excited for the return of Denzel Washington as Robert McCall in The Equalizer 2 (2018). It’s coming in August but before McCall makes his big screen return. I thought I would go back and explore the original…
Cynthia Rothrock is the Ultimate Queen of Action Movies! Women have always played roles in action movies, but in this testosterone fueled genre they mainly took a backseat to the men. They were sidekicks, eye candy, victims who needed saving. Cynthia Rothrock was the first to punch and kick her way through those stereotypes with…
But does Cobra Kai carry on the Karate Kid’s legacy? WARNING SPOILERS contained in this article! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! I love reliving the movies of my youth and The Karate Kid was up there. Just a couple of months ago, I was wondering who Danny LaRusso grew up to be. Maybe I was…
From the ‘The Wild Bunch and ‘Cross of Iron’ to modern action classics Recently I have been thinking about the origins of the genre of movies we love. What movies really helped to define the genre that we enjoy watching and which creatives behind the movies have inspired the action greats to make these movies….
Hell Hath No Fury Like Liam Neeson in ‘Taken’ (2008). “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills: skills I have acquired over a very…
Werewolf cops run amok in LA in Full Eclipse (1993). I don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of different movie genres coming together. For whatever reason, two differing movie types combining always seem greater than the sum of their individual parts. I think this is true in the case of action movies,…
