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Hot 25 Action & Adventure DVDs
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Terminator
2 - Judgment Day (The Ultimate Edition, Two Disc Set) (1991)
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
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DVD - Momentum Pictures Home Ent / 29 October, 2001
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Arguably the finest movie of its kind, Terminator 2: Judgment Day captured Arnold Schwarzenegger at the very apex
of his Hollywood celebrity and James Cameron at the peak of his perfectionist directorial powers. Nothing the star
did subsequently measured up to his iconic performance here, spouting...Read more |
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Crouching
Tiger Hidden Dragon [2000]
~ Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh
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DVD - Columbia Tri-Star Home Video / 18 June, 2001
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is so many things: an historical epic on a grand scale, an Asian martial-arts flick
with both great effects and fantastic fighting (choreographed by The Matrix's guru Yuen Wo Ping), a story of magic,
revenge and power played with a posse of star-crossed lovers thrown in...Read more |
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Stargate:
The Movie--Director's Cut [1994]
~ Kurt Russell, James Spader
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DVD - Momentum Pictures Home Ent / 15 October, 2001
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A self-consciously epic sci-fi adventure of Cecil B DeMille-sized proportions, Stargate refreshes and combines
several well-worn sci-fi and sword 'n' sandal genre conventions with some Erich von Daniken-style Biblical Egyptology.
The directing-writing-producing team of Roland Emmerich and Dean...Read more |
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Enter
The Dragon - Box Set [1973]
~ Bruce Lee, John Saxon
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 8 October, 2001
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One of the most successful martial arts movies of all time, if not the best, Enter the Dragon (filmed in 1973)
was Bruce Lee's last completed film and the first significant meeting of Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema. But it
wasn't an entirely harmonious marriage, with on-set communication breakdowns...Read more |
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Gladiator
(2000) - Two Disc Set
~ Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
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DVD - Columbia Tri-Star Home Video / 20 November, 2000
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A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its Golden-Age Hollywood predecessors, Ridley
Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes movie-making back to the Roman Empire via
computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work...Read more |
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Matrix [1998]
~ Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 29 November, 1999
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True
Lies [1994]
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis
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DVD - Columbia Tri-Star Home Video / 24 September, 2001
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From The Terminator to Titanic, you can always rely on writer-director James Cameron to show you something you've
never seen on the big screen before. The guy may not consistently pen the most scintillating dialogue in the world
(and, especially in this movie, he doesn't seem to have a particularly...Read more |
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Superman
/ Superman 2 [1978]
~ Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 24 September, 2001
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Modern blockbuster cinema came of age with the release of three huge science fiction/fantasy extravaganzas in the
late 1970s. In 1978 Superman was the last of these, a gigantic hit unfairly overshadowed by Star Wars (1977) and
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Christopher Reeve is...Read more |
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Goodfellas
[1990]
~ Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 25 January, 1999
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Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalises the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry
Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection
Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting...Read more |
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The
Lord of the Rings (animated version) [1978]
~ Christopher Guard (Voice), William Squire (Voice)
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 26 November, 2001
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Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely
truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and
leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with...Read more |
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Exit
Wounds [2001]
~ Steven Seagal, DMX
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 24 September, 2001
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One can always count on Steven Seagal to act as the repository of yesterday's action-film clichés, and Exit
Wounds is yet another case in point. Seagal plays Detroit cop Orin Boyd, a lone wolf lawman who gets in the middle
of his precinct's losing battle against police corruption. Taking on a...Read more |
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Seven
Samurai [1954]
~ Toshirô Mifune
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DVD - Bfi Video Publishing / 22 November, 1999
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Unanimously hailed as one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of the motion picture, Seven Samurai has
inspired countless films modelled after its basic premise. But Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 action drama has never
been surpassed in terms of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and...Read more |
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Saving
Private Ryan [1998]
~ Tom Hanks, Matt Damon
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DVD - Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) / 6 November, 2000
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When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with
Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene
of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day...Read more |
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The
Terminator (Two-Disc Set) (1985)
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
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DVD - Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / 19 March, 2001
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The Terminator was the film that cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger's place in the action-brawn firmament, and both
his and the movie's subsequent iconic status are well deserved. He's chilling as the futuristic cyborg that kills
without fear, without love, without mercy. James Cameron's story and...Read more |
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Full
Metal Jacket [1987]
~ Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 10 September, 2001
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Stanley Kubrick's 1987 penultimate film Full Metal Jacket seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of
touch with the vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter.
Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the...Read more |
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Mad
Max [1979]
~ Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 8 October, 2001
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The story of Mel Gibson's stately anti-hero begins in Mad Max, George Miller's low-budget debut, in which Max is
a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family. But, unlike
most films set in the devastated future, Mad Max is notable because it is poised...Read more |
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The
Great Escape [1963]
~ Steve McQueen, James Garner
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DVD - Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / 2 January, 2001
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The Great Escape image of Steve McQueen (as "The Cooler King") astride his motorcycle has entered silver-screen
iconography, alongside Brando on his bike from The Wild One. Based on a true story about a group of POWs who mount
a daring breakout from a supposedly inescapable Nazi prison...Read more |
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A
Bridge Too Far [1977]
~ Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal
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DVD - Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / 2 January, 2001
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This massive 1977 adaptation by director Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) of Cornelius Ryan's novel features an all-star
cast in an epic rendering of a daring but ultimately disastrous raid behind enemy lines in Holland during the Second
World War. A lengthy and exhaustive look at the mechanics of...Read more |
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Contact
~ Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 21 September, 1998
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The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking
conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest
(both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of...Read more |
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Lock,
Stock And Two Smoking Barrels: Directors Cut [1998]
~ Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher
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DVD - Universal Pictures Video / 13 December, 1999
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Cockney boys Tom, Soap, Eddie and Bacon are in a bind; they owe seedy criminal and porn king "Hatchet"
Harry a sizeable amount of cash after Eddie loses half a million in a rigged game of poker. Hot on their tails
is a thug named Big Chris who intends to send them all to the hospital if they don't...Read more |
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True
Romance (1993)
~ Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 3 April, 2000
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It was directed with energetic skill by Top Gun Tony Scott, but t his breathtaking 1993 thriller (think of it as
an adolescent crime fantasy on steroids) has Quentin Tarantino written all over it. True Romance is really part
of a loose trilogy that includes Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, with a...Read more |
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Fight
Club - Two Disc Set (1999)
~ Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
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DVD - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / 6 November, 2000
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All films require a certain suspension of disbelief, Fight Club perhaps more than others; but if you're willing
to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day
morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed...Read more |
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The
James Bond Collection [1962]
~ Sean Connery, George Lazenby
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DVD - Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / 5 November, 2001
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DVD Description:
The James Bond Collection is a lavish gunmetal presentation tin containing all 19 of the official Bond films, from
1962's Dr No to 1999's The World is Not Enough.Read Amazon.co.uk's reviews of all the individual James Bond DVDs
here.Read our guide to the Bond DVD special features here.Read more |
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Bullitt
[1998]
~ Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset
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DVD - Warner Home Video / 21 September, 1998
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San Francisco has been the setting of a lot of exciting movie car chases over the years, but this 1968 police thriller
is still the one to beat when it comes to high-octane action on the steep hills of the city by the Bay. The outstanding
car chase earned an Oscar for best editing, but the rest of...Read more |
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Manhunter
[1986]
~ William L. Petersen, Joan Allen
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DVD - Momentum Pictures Home Ent / 1 October, 2001
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Released to box-office indifference in 1986, Manhunter introduced Hannibal Lecter and established the rules of
the modern race to find serial killer thriller five years before The Silence of the Lambs packed cinemas everywhere.
This was Michael Mann's third feature, reuniting William L Petersen and...Read more |
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