Action, Action

Check out Patreon for early access and bonus episodes patreon.com/Action_Action

Renegade cop Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is intent on snuffing out a dangerous gang of drug traffickers known as the "White Boys." When the gang makes off with a cache of heroin from federal custody and destroys the building to conceal evidence of their crime, Caine investigates with straight-arrow FBI agent Arwood Smith (Brian Benben). But bizarre new clues reveal that the Boys' criminal enterprise extends much further than anyone had previously imagined.

Initial release: January 26, 1990 (South Korea)

Director: Craig R. Baxley

Box office: $4.35-4.37 million

Music composed by: Jan Hammer

Screenplay: Jonathan Tydor, David Koepp

Holy, fucking, shit, this movie. There are no words I can give to explain its true glory, just go watch it. 

Incarcerated for assault and manslaughter, a man (Siu-wong Fan) survives in a futuristic prison by resorting to more extreme violence.

https://www.patreon.com/Action_Action For extra stuff

https://www.instagram.com/actionactionpodcast/

Patreon for early access and extra episodes https://www.patreon.com/Action_Action

A bicycle-motocrosser (Bill Allen) tries to enter a corrupt promoter's nationally televised cash-prize race.

Initial release: March 21, 1986 (USA)

Director: Hal Needham

Box office: 2 million USD

Budget: 3 million USD

Screenplay: Sam Bernard, Geoffrey Edwards

Johnny Rico completes his graduation and joins the Mobile Infantry to serve the nation. Soon, he finds himself fighting against alien bugs that are hell-bent on destroying life on Earth.

Release date: November 7, 1997 (Canada)

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Film series: Starship Troopers

Box office: 121.2 million USD

Budget: 100 million USD, 105 million USD

 

Check out Patreon for early access and extra content  https://www.patreon.com/Action_Action

A young hit man wrestles with his conscience when he begins to develop feelings for the woman who witnesses a murder he commits.

Initial release: January 15, 2021 (USA)

Director: Cameron Van Hoy

Screenplay: Cameron Van Hoy

Music composed by: Miami Nights 1984

If you like the podcast please check out our Patreon and instagram, tell a friend, and give us a rating.

https://www.patreon.com/Action_Action

https://www.instagram.com/actionactionpodcast/?hl=en

Check us out on Patreon for early access and other cool stuff

https://www.patreon.com/Action_Action

Colonel William Guile and his mix-bag army fight the tyrannical General Bison whose vicious plans include turning a captive into a hideous mutant in order to aid his mega plan of ruling the world.

Initial release: December 23, 1994 (USA)

Director: Steven E. de Souza

Budget: 35 million USD

Box office: 99.4 million USD

Screenplay: Steven E. de Souza

A legal-aid lawyer (Peter Weller) and an undercover officer (Sam Elliott) check a drug dealer's story of police corruption.

Initial release: May 6, 1988 (USA)

Director: James Glickenhaus

Box office: 10.07 million USD

Budget: 6 million USD

For early access and your chance to pick an upcoming movie check us out our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Action_Action

The big list is on Lettboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/actionaction/list/greatest-action-movies-ranked/

This week on the podcast in lieu of Valentines Day we watch the most romantic of action flicks, Mr. And Mrs. Smith. 

Please check out our Patreon for early access and bonus content. 

A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.Initial release: June 7, 2005 (USA)

Director: Doug LimanFeatured song: Mondo BongoBox office: 487.3 million USD

This week on the podcast we watch the 1992 Hong Kong action hit, Full Contact. Check out our Patreon for early access and more information. 

Full Contact

Jeff (Chow Yun-Fat), who works as a nightclub bouncer in Bangkok, saves his friend Sam (Wong Chow-Sang) from a beating by the local loan shark. The two team up with Sam's cousin Judge (Simon Yam) to rob an arms shipment, but the loan shark that Jeff ticked off persuades Judge to turn against him.Initial release: July 23, 1992 (Hong Kong)Director: Ringo Lam

Back at it with that new Liam Neeson joint. This week on the podcast we watch, Honest Thief.

Hoping to cut a deal, a professional bank robber agrees to return all the money he stole in exchange for a reduced sentence. But when two FBI agents set him up for murder, he must now go on the run to clear his name and bring them to justice.

Honest Thief

Initial release: October 8, 2020 (Russia)Director: Mark WilliamsBox office: 29.5 million USD