‘Siberia’ or Mr. Keanu Reeves Goes to Russia. A new trailer for the latest Keanu Reeves feature – Siberia – has dropped. As the title and trailer would suggest, Mr. Reeves appears to be headed to the motherland to do some dastardly deals with diamonds. Reeves, who has been doing action yeoman’s work for the…

Steven Seagal is just the cook In 1992 the fast-talking, hard-hitting, pony-tailing action star Steven Seagal was at the top of his game. Under Siege, which featured a big budget and top dollar cast of Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey and Erika Eleniak, was perhaps his greatest hit. In the vein of Top Gun, it…

John Carpenter has a black belt in Action Movies! John Carpenter is known as the maestro of the horror film as the director of two of the genre’s greatest movies in Halloween and The Thing as well as the yet to be acknowledged In The Mouth Of Madness. But this graduate of the USC Film…

Tom Cruise meets John Woo in M:I-2 Note: this is Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) – part of a 6-part series on all the movies in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Click here to read Part 1 on the original Mission: Impossible (1996). By the summer of 2000 the action movie was absolutely back in favor with audiences…

Will ‘Six Underground’ Become Netflix’s New Action Franchise? Michael Bay is back in a big way! The ultimate action movie director of such classics as The Rock and Bad Boys is teaming up with Deadpool darling Ryan Reynolds on a new actioner called Six Underground. Little is known about the project at this point besides…

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…