Action Movies 2003 List

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

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 • John Collee • Billy Boyd • Paul Bettany • Ian Mercer • John DeSantis • Patrick Gallagher • Richard McCabe • Robert Pugh • David Threlfall • Peter Weir • 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 • Joan Cusack • Matthew Lillard • Bill Goldberg • Glenn Ficarra • Joe Dante • Heather Locklear • Jenna Elfman • Timothy Dalton • Roger Corman • Joel Simon • Chris deFaria • 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 Gerard Butler • Neal McDonough • Lauren Shuler Donner • Paul Walker • Michael Sheen • Richard Donner • Michael Crichton • Billy Connolly • Matt Craven • Marton Csokas • Frances O'Connor • Marie-Josee D'Amours • Anna Friel • Ethan Embry • David LaHaye • Jim Van Wyck • 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.

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

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.