Action Movies 2004 List

With Tom Cruise • Mark Ruffalo • Jamie Foxx • Javier Bardem • Peter Berg • Frank Darabont • Jada Pinkett • Debi Mazar • Bruce McGill • Michael Mann • Walter F. Parkes • Stuart Beattie • Irma P. Hall • Barry Shabaka Henley • Angelo Tiffe • Emilio Rivera • Bodhi Elfman

Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.

With Sanaa Lathan • Paul W.S. Anderson • John Davis • Lance Henriksen • Colin Salmon • Ewen Bremner • Walter Hill • David Giler • Gordon Carroll • Raoul Bova • Shane Salemo

A billionaire finances an expedition to the Antarctic to uncover a pyramid long-since buried. However, when the team of scientists arrives, they come to realize that the frozen continent is the battle field for two alien races—and now they are caught in the middle. No matter who wins, we lose.

With Kazuki Takahashi • Amy Birnbaum • Wayne Grayson • Dan Green • Eric Stuart • Scottie Ray • Ryôsuke Takahashi • Norman Grossfeld

Yugi, a smaller than average high school student, and an easy target for bullies, is given an ancient Egyptian riddle called the Millennium Puzzle by his grandfather, a local game shop manager. Yugi pieces the puzzle together and unexpectedly becomes the powerful Game King. Now when Yugi gets into sticky situations, the Game King takes over and protects Yugi and his friends.

With Chris Kendrick • Duane Stephens • Nate Bynum • Benji • Nick Whitaker • Christy Summerhays • Neil Barth • Carlton W. Bluford • Melinda Clarkson-Haynes • Lincoln Hoppe • Joe Camp • Margaret Loesch

Set in Gulfport, Mississippi (where the new Benji was found), this movie follows the adventures of a loveable mutt named Benji, who enters into an unwanted partnership with a shaggy dog (named "Shaggy"), as the pair struggles to save Benji's mother from a greedy backyard breeder.

With Stellan Skarsgard • Renny Harlin • Ralph Brown • James G. Robinson • Gabriel Mann • Billy Crawford • Izabella Scorupco • Paul Schrader • Guy McElwaine • William Wisher • Alexi Hawley • Caleb Carr

Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish. In the wake of all he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him. He can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to escape the horrors that he witnessed there. While drifting through Cairo, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities to join a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed a Christian Byzantine church in inexplicably pristine condition—as if it had been buried on the day it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British discover it. But beneath the church, something much older sleeps, waiting to be awoken. Madness descends upon the local villagers and the contingent of British soldiers who've been sent to guard the excavation. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village—atrocities he had prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, and the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

With Donnie Yen • Jet Li • Zhang Ziyi • Tony Leung Chiu-Wai • Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk • Chen Dao Minga • Zhang Yimou • Yimou Zhang • William Kong

A tale about the soon-to-be First Emperor of China who is on the brink of conquering a war-torn land during the violent dawn of the Qin dynasty over two thousand years ago. Three opponents are determined to assassinate the King, and one loyal subject stands in their way.

With Morris Chestnut • Nicholas Gonzalez • Johnny Messner • Eugene Byrd • Salli Richardson • Karl Yune • Dwight H. Little • Susan Ruskin • Verna Harrah • John Claflin • Daniel Zelman

A scientific expedition is assembled by a powerful pharmaceutical company to search for a rare black orchid in the deep recesses of the jungles of Borneo. Their hope is that the orchid can be used to unlock the secrets of youth and immortality. What they soon discover is that the orchid is already being used by a denizen host of giant snakes to augment their strength, size and vitality—not to mention their appetites.