2009 Movies : Adventure

With Danny McBride • Michael Sheen • Len Wiseman • Skip Williamson • Rhona Mitra • Tom Rosenberg • Gary Lucchesi • Henry Winterstern • Kevin Grevioux • Bill Nighy • Steven Mackintosh • Patrick Tatopoulos

"Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.

With Christopher Nolan • Morgan Freeman • Christian Bale • Michael Jai White • Gary Oldman • Benjamin Melniker • Michael Caine • Charles Roven • Michael E. Uslan • Heath Ledger • David S. Goyer • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Aaron Eckhart • Eric Roberts • Anthony Michael Hall • Nestor Carbonell • Melinda McGraw • Nathan Gamble • Jonah Nolan

Batman (Christian Bale) raises the stakes in his war on crime in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight." With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker (Heath Ledger).

With Jim Caviezel • Howard McCain • Don Carmody • Karen Loop • Sophia Myles • Ron Perlman • Jack Huston • John Schimmel • John Hurt • Christopher Eberts • Kia Jam • Chris Roberts • Andreas Schmid • Dirk Blackman • Don Carmody Christopher Eberts • Pierre Gill

"Outlander" begins when a space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world – Kainan – and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster - before it destroys them all.

With Quentin Tarantino • Mickey Rourke • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Rosario Dawson • Johnny Knoxville • Diane Lane • Hossein Amini • Christopher McQuarrie • Thomas Jane • John Madden • Lawrence Bender • RIchard Gladstein • Elmore Leonard • Steve Barancik

In the thriller, based on the Elmore Leonard novel, a woman and her blue-collar husband become the targets of two killers after they stumble on an extortion plot hatched by the bad guys. Carmen (Lane) saw the scam and now she and Wayne (Jane), her ironworker husband, have to pay.

Blackbird (Rourke) kills smart and deadly. Richie kills stupid and crazy. Both are out to erase any living evidence--and when these lethal partners take up the chase, a safe place from killing is awfully hard to find.

With Liam Neeson • Maggie Grace • Luc Besson • Katie Cassidy • India Osborne • Famke Janssen • Robert Mark Kamen • Pierre Morel • Pierre-Ange Le Pogam

"Taken" stars Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, an ex-government operative who has less than four days to find his kidnapped daughter, who has been taken on her first day of vacation in Paris.