Action
cover
Blooded Treasury Fight (1979) NeoDB IMDb WikiData
血肉磨坊
director: Pao Hsueh-Li actor: Michael Chan Wai-Man / David Chiang Da-Wei …
other title: Lutte Féroce à Shaolin / 血肉磨坊 …
Master thief Chow Kwan-hai is the only person who knows the location of a stash of valuable pearls. With the help of a mismatched gang of criminals, assassins and pickpockets, Chow leads a suicidal mission to the Bloody Mill to find the treasure and hopefully make it back alive.
cover
Rambo (2008) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Rambo
director: Sylvester Stallone actor: Sylvester Stallone / Julie Benz …
other title: John Rambo
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.
cover
Dead for a Dollar (2022) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dead for a Dollar
director: Walter Hill actor: Christoph Waltz / Willem Dafoe …
other title: Morto per un dollaro / Caçadores de Recompensas …
In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.
cover
DNA (1997) IMDb WikiData
DNA
director: William Mesa actor: Mark Dacascos / Jürgen Prochnow …
other title: DNA. Una storia che non deve accadere / D.N.A. Genetic Code - Dem Grauen ausgeliefert …
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.
cover
Mars Attacks! (1996) Douban NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
Mars Attacks!
6.6 (9 ratings) director: Tim Burton actor: Jack Nicholson / Glenn Close …
other title: Marte Ataca!
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Jan. 19, 2026 watched
People slag it off, and sure it has issues, but I always enjoy it!

TIL it was Alex Cox (Repo Man) who came up with the idea.

Rewatched (for the 7th? 8th? time) in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon (after #Monsterdon).
JackBlack ComedySciFi GlennClose PamGrier SciFi
cover
Hot Fuzz (2007) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Hot Fuzz
7.5 (19 ratings) director: Edgar Wright actor: Simon Pegg / Nick Frost …
other title: Hot Fuzz - Esquadrão de Província / Hot Fuzz - Zwei abgewichste Profis …
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Jan. 16, 2026 watched
A parody of action movies while also a loving homage to action movies, with not one wasted line or frame!

Rewatched in #Comedon watch party on Mastodon
TimothyDalton SimonPegg 2000s UK KevinEldon
cover
Rambo III (1988) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rambo III
director: Peter MacDonald actor: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Crenna …
other title: Rambo 3
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
cover
Godzilla (1998) IMDb NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB Douban WikiData
Godzilla
director: Roland Emmerich actor: Matthew Broderick / Jean Reno …
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
Jan. 12, 2026 watched
Long, limp facsimile of a Godzilla movie ripping off also Jurassic Park, Aliens etc while including as much corporate promotion as possible. Broderick, in particular, underwhelms.

Godzilla 98 is the Woodstock '99 of monster movies.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
Monster 1990s KevinDunn JeanReno MichaelLerner
cover
New World Disorder (1999) IMDb WikiData
New World Disorder
director: Richard Spence actor: Rutger Hauer / Tara Fitzgerald …
other title: File: programma mortale / New World Disorder - Das Killerprogramm …
A gang of four eyed crooks led by Kurt Bishop are ripping off top dollar computer chips from a list of factories. The night they hit Dynaphase Systems, two dirty employees are staying late using company resources to develop their own plans for a security microchip worth millions of dollars. Psychopathic Bishop raids the Dynaphase facility and downloads the mainframe before the employees have a chance to completely erase their work from it. When Bishop discovers the value of the stolen, but partially erased information, he sets out after the rest of the chip design, letting nothing stand in his way.
cover
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Rambo: First Blood Part II
director: George P. Cosmatos actor: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Crenna …
other title: Rambo 2 - La vendetta / Rambo - First Blood 2 …
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Jan. 10, 2026 watched
Bombastic right-wing fantasy with one bemulleted, besteroided manly man single-handedly undoing the US defeat in Vietnam caused by, you know, people not "Real American" enough. (Yeah, my comment's a little bit political. But just a tiny sliver compared to the politics of the Rambo franchise.) But I loves me some action!

Re-watched in #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon
StevenBerkoff SylvesterStallone RichardCrenna Action GeorgePCosmatos
cover
The Foreigner (2017) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
The Foreigner
6.3 (7 ratings) director: Martin Campbell actor: Pierce Brosnan / Jackie Chan …
other title: O Estrangeiro / El extranjero
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
cover
Code of Silence (1985) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Code of Silence
director: Andrew Davis actor: Chuck Norris / Mike Genovese …
other title: Il codice del silenzio / Politiets Hemmelige Våben …
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Jan. 11, 2026 watched
Why have Chuck Norris in a movie and NOT have him Chuck Norris the hell out of the baddies??? There was ONE punch in the 1st hour, and ONE actual fight scene in the last half-hour.

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party

Legit stream in MX:
Jan 2026: Prime (careful, there are two versions, one is dubbed)
DennisFarina Action OrionPictures Thriller AndrewDavis
cover
Southern Comfort (1981) IMDb TMDB
Southern Comfort
director: Walter Hill actor: Keith Carradine / Powers Boothe …
other title: I guerrieri della palude silenziosa / Manøvre med døden …
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
cover
The Perfect Weapon (1991) IMDb WikiData
The Perfect Weapon
director: Mark DiSalle actor: Jeff Speakman / John Dye …
other title: Arma perfetta / Eine perfekte Waffe …
Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
cover
The Man from Hong Kong (1975) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
直搗黃龍
director: Brian Trenchard-Smith actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / George Lazenby …
other title: Der Mann von Hongkong / L'Homme de Hong Kong …
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.