Genre: adventure

'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)

120 mins Adventure , Comedy, Drama

In 1934 Leslie Howard starred as Sir Percy Blakeney in "The Scarlet Pimpernel" an adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's story of an English aristocrat who under a secret identity helped French noblemen escape from a reign of...

10,000 BC (2008)

109 mins Action , Adventure , Drama

"10,000 BC" reminds me of a scene from "The Big Bang Theory" where the geeks have done something high techy techy and Penny asks why which they respond with "because we can". Now in fairness there is more to "10,000 BC" than ...

10.0 Earthquake (2014)

88 mins Action , Adventure , Disaster, Drama

Movie Review - 10.0 Earthquake (2014) Henry Ian Cusick stars as Jack, an engineer who finds himself trying to stop a major disaster when a fracking company's drilling operation starts causing tremors on an unprecedented scale...

101 Dalmatians (1996)

103 mins Adventure , Comedy, Family

Cutesy with a cartoonish dark side is probably the best way to describe the 1996 live action reworking of Disney's "101 Dalmatians", starring Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson and the wonderfully over the top Glenn Close as Crue...

101 Dalmatians (1961)

79 mins Adventure , Animation, Comedy, Family

I could watch vintage Disney all day long, there is simply some thing magical about the older animations brought about by the mix of characters, story, comedy and animation style. And "101 Dalmatians" ticks the box on all of ...

102 Dalmatians (2000)

100 mins Adventure , Comedy, Family

To put things into perspective "102 Dalmatians" is not a bad movie, for it's target audience of young children who will enjoy watching Cruella de Vil get her comeuppance thanks to some cute dogs it is entertaining. But it doe...

12 Rounds 2 : Reloaded (2013)

95 mins Action , Adventure , Thriller

Do I judge all movies equally or do I take into consideration such things as being a WWE movie when rating them. It is not as simply as do one or the other because some times a movie might not end up that special yet compared...

127 Hours (2010)

94 mins Adventure , Biography, Drama

Prior to its release there was such a buzz about Danny Boyle's "127 Hours" that even if you had never heard about Aron Ralston's amazing story you probably knew all about it before watching the movie. And that is how I saw "1...

13 Rue Madeleine (1947)

95 mins Action , Adventure , Drama

"13 Rue Madeleine" is one of those post war movies which try to broach the gap between fact and fiction by delivering a fictionalized thriller with a touch of the docudrama about it. It probably made "13 Rue Madeleine" an ent...

The 13th Warrior (1999)

102 mins Action , Adventure , Fantasy

I am sorry to all those who think "The 13th Warrior" rocks because I have to disagree. The storyline is a mess, there are gaping holes which makes it laughable, the attempt to try and be historical makes it hard work and to b...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

127 mins Action , Adventure , Family, Fantasy

Up until recently I had never watched "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" all the way through, catching bits of it here and there when ever it got shown on TV. But finally I have watched this epic Disney production from beginning ...

2012 (2009)

158 mins Action , Adventure , Disaster, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

There was a time when a disaster movie would be about a sinking ship, a doomed plane or a burning building but in recent years it appears that Hollywood is not content just to have this scale of drama, they want bigger, they ...

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)

100 mins Adventure , Animation, Family

Putting things into immediate context "The 3 Worlds of Gulliver" is not the best adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", although a whole lot better than the more recent adaptation starring Jack Black. And at the...

The 300 Spartans (1962)

114 mins Adventure , Drama

I wasn't that impressed by the more recent "300" as it came across as all look with little substance but because of that movie I am not that impressed with "The 300 Spartans" the 1962 movie based on the same story of Leonidas...

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)

115 mins Action , Adventure , Drama

In "Kickboxer" when Jean-Claude Van Damme needed to defeat the bad guy who killed his brother he tracks down an expert to teach him the skills of Muay Thai. When in "The Karate Kid" Ralph Macchino was being bullied by some hi...

40 Days and Nights (2012)

86 mins Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Movie Review - 40 Days and Nights (2012) an extinction level event is threatening the planet. That is unless John (Alex Carter) can get the high tech arks built and his girlfriend, Tessa (Monica Keena), can save enough speci...

47 Ronin (2013)

128 mins Action , Adventure , Drama

Well 128 minutes is quite a lot of time for what in truth is not a lot of story, but then "47 Ronin" is clearly a crowd pleaser, made to entertain those who will be impressed by the effect laden action. And fair dos but it st...

The 5th Wave (2016)

112 mins Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Movie Review - The 5th Wave (2016) Chlo� Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Alex Roe, Liev Schreiber, Maika Monroe, Mario Bello, Ron Livingston, Zackary Arthur...

The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)

98 mins Adventure , Drama

Whilst I am not an aficionado when it comes to the martial arts movies from Hong Kong I have grown to like them. Now up until now all those I have watched have been from the 60s and 70s and I have to say that after watching "...

A Bug's Life (1998)

95 mins Adventure , Animation, Comedy

So I have mentioned before, there was a time where I would avoid animations like the plague and as such whilst it has been over 15 years since "A Bug's Life" came out I had managed to avoid seeing it till now. And surprisingl...

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