Total Recall
Bored construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) seeks a quick thrill with memory implants of a spy adventure on Mars. But when the procedure goes wrong, Quaid realises he’s actually […]
Tag Archives: action
Raw Deal
Arnie takes on the mob again as a small town Sherriff who goes under cover in the Chicago underworld to bust the crime family that killed his daughter. This film […]
Eraser
John Krueger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is an eraser who helps fake the deaths of people who need to be forgotten, or something. When he’s charged with protecting (not erasing) Lee Cullen […]
The Last Stand
This is the 2013 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, not the X-Men film with which it shares a name and magnet-based prison van escape sequence. Arnie’s post-gubernatorial comeback has a few key ingredients […]
Red Heat
A Russian officer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a Chicago cop (Jim Belushi) team up to bring down a drug kingpin (Ed O’Ross) in 1988’s Red Heat. There are parallels with Rocky […]
Collateral Damage
Arnold Schwarzenegger ends the war on drugs and starts the war on terror in this largely forgotten effort from 2002, in which a firefighter (Schwarzenegger) uses his CIA connections (?) […]
Curse of the Golden Flower
As the chrysanthemum festival approaches, trouble is brewing in the Chinese royal household as the Empress (Gong Li) plots revenge against her manipulative husband (Chow Yun Fat). Zhang Yimou, director […]
Kindergarten Cop
Arnold Schwarzenegger goes undercover as a preschool teacher to find a dangerous criminal in Kindergarten Cop, the opposite of 2017’s Aftermath in which he tracks down a man in witness […]
Extraction
Extraction is a new Netflix action movie from a story by the Russo brothers – if you can count “mercenary rescues kidnapped boy” as a story. It’s odd that the guys […]
Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy turned down Ghostbusters to make the movie that would narrowly beat it, as Beverly Hills Cop cleverly comes top of the 1984 box office. This action-comedy about a […]
