UAMC ranks the best and greatest of Sylvester Stallone’s Ultimate Action Movie career! Sylvester Stallone in Cobra (1986) From Rocky to Rambo to Tango to… Barney Ross, the Ultimate Action Movie Club is proud to announce that our official rankings are in on the MOST ULTIMATE ACTION MOVIES of the great Sylvester Stallone. Now, we…
Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn Go Pure Grindhouse in S. Craig Zahler’s ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ I’m old. I’m done with the superhero movies. I don’t care about mythical dragons and rapey idiots with swords. I like my movies real, and about something. I want the good guys to be men, and the bad guys to…
From Bloodsport to Mortal Kombat – Jean Claude Van Damme’s Video Game Legacy Explored! Jean-Claude Van Damme may be more commonly associated with the Street Fighter gaming franchise but he actually had a surprising amount of influence on Mortal Kombat. Star of the ill-fated Street Fighter movie, an oral history of Mortal Kombat published by…
Van Damme’s Kickboxing Legacy Lives on with Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018) Earlier this year, the action movie gods smiled upon us when Kickboxer: Retaliation was announced (here was our first look article back in January). Alain Moussi returns in the updated version and story of Kurt Sloane, a character Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD) and Cannon Films…
UAMC reviews ‘Shiner’ – a solid MMA action flick starring Kevin Bernhardt Shiner is directed by Seo Mutarevic and stars Kevin Bernhardt (who also scripted), Seya Hug and Shannon Staller in this story of Happy McBride (Bernhardt), a down on his luck former MMA champion who begrudgingly takes a young fighter named Matt (Hug) under his wing…
Robert Rodriguez has made a first-person virtual reality action movie you can watch now Robert Rodriguez is taking the action movie genre to exciting new heights with his latest effort: a 20-minute virtual reality short that puts the viewer in the heart of the action. The Limit sees stars Michelle Rodriguez and Norman Reedus and…
A look at the man who plays Viktor Drago in Creed 2 – Florian Munteanu! Like his on-screen father before him, Florian ‘Big Nasty’ Munteanu, the MMA-star cast as Ivan Drago’s son Viktor in Creed II, has revealed the intense preparations that went into the role. A budding fighter-turned-actor, Munteanu first made his name the Superkombat…
UAMC loves Highlander II despite pretty much everything about it… So ultimately awful! Highlander II: The Quickening, starring a mostly-dead Christopher Lambert and regretful Sean Connery is one of only a few Ultimate Action Movies to have the dubious distinction of owning a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. But, unlike its ultimate action movie father film…
Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky III is great for many reason, but mostly for Mr. T. Rocky III (1982) is a powerhouse of a movie, although maybe not as culturally or cinematically important as the first two in the franchise it’s maybe the first truly iconic Rocky movie. The Rocky that’s remembered in the popular imagination. It’s…
Lethal Weapon (1987) Takes on its Ultimate Knockoff L.A. Vice (1989) We have an ultimate showdown between UAMC-favorite Lethal Weapon (1987) versus its awesome B-movie rip-off L.A. Vice (1989) in this edition of COPYCATS! (Check out past episodes on The Fugitive vs. Fugitive X and RoboCop vs. RoboVampire.) Copycats is a bimonthly column about popular…
