Action Movies 2003 List

With Keanu Reeves • Laurence Fishburne • Hugo Weaving • Lana Wachowski • Joel Silver • Jada Pinkett • Monica Belluci • Stuart Wells • Andy Wachowski • Carrie-Anne Moss • Daniel Bernhardt • Matt McColm • Harold Perrineau Jr. • Harry Lennex

In this third installment that concerns itself with death, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus--along with the rest of their battling posse--continue to come against the machines that have systematically enslaved the human race in the Matrix. Now displaying a greater confidence in his own power, Neo fully realizes that he is a superhuman figure capable of amazing feats, and is totally aware that he's able to see the codes of people and things with which he comes into contact. Simultaneously more humans, who are struggling to live in the real world, have awoken out of the Matrix. As their numbers increase, the machines invade Zion, the center of human resistance--considered the last real-world city.

With Russell Crowe • Paul Bettany • David Threlfall • John Collee • Billy Boyd • John DeSantis • Peter Weir • Ian Mercer • Patrick Gallagher • Richard McCabe • Robert Pugh • Samuel Goldwyn • Duncan Henderson

Russell Crowe is Lucky Jack Aubrey, the Navy's greatest fighting captain and Paul Bettany is ship's doctor Stephen Maturin. The ship, the Surprise, is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured, Aubrey – the "Master" of the Surprise and "Commander" of his men – is torn between duty and friendship as he sets sail in a high-stakes chase across two oceans, to the far side of the world, to intercept and capture their foe. It's a mission that can decide the fate of a nation – or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. The film is based on the narrative outline of the tenth book in Patrick O'Brian's legendary "Aubrey/Maturin" series of high seas novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

With Brendan Fraser • Matthew Lillard • Joan Cusack • Chris deFaria • Heather Locklear • Jenna Elfman • Bill Goldberg • Timothy Dalton • Roger Corman • Glenn Ficarra • Joe Dante • Joel Simon • Larry Doyle

Set in a live-action world in which Warner Bros.' beloved assortment of irreverent animated entertainers interact with human characters for maximum comic effect, the story unfolds on the Studio backlot and careens all over the map in time-honored Looney Tunes style. Our celluloid heroes embark on a hilarious adventure that takes them from Hollywood to Las Vegas, Paris and the jungles of Africa in search of Fraser's character's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey Diamond.

With Eddie Murphy • Jennifer Tilly • Rob Minkoff • Terence Stamp • Marsha Thomason • Nathaniel Parker

When a man (Eddie Murphy) and his family encounter a ghost while visiting a haunted house during a job interview, he learns the value of family, and the lesson that he should make sure he never neglects them. Based upon the popular Disney theme park attraction.

With Gerard Butler • Paul Walker • Neal McDonough • Lauren Shuler Donner • Michael Sheen • Billy Connolly • Matt Craven • David LaHaye • Marie-Josee D'Amours • Richard Donner • Marton Csokas • Anna Friel • Ethan Embry • Frances O'Connor • Jim Van Wyck • Michael Crichton • Jeff Maguire • Robert Nolfi • George J. Nolfi

A mystery suspense thriller based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel about a team of student archaeologists on a dig at a medieval site in France. When Professor Johnston, their team leader, disappears, they suddenly find themselves in 14th century feudal France on a perilous journey beyond their wildest dreams. Now, to find their missing professor and avoid a potentially catastrophic event, they won't be excavating the past, they'll be living it.