\nThe Last Boy Scout<\/em> (1991)<\/strong>
\nReleased in the early 90s, The Last Boy Scout<\/em> features the unlikely duo of Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans. The story follows an LAPD detective (Willis) investigating a murder surrounding a football team. With the help of the victim\u2019s former boyfriend (Wayans), the two embark on an action-packed adventure filled with explosions, gunfights, and hilarious one-liners.<\/p>\nConsidering how popular Willis was as an action star at the time following the wildly successful Die Hard<\/em> and its sequel, it\u2019s surprising that The Last Boy Scout<\/em> only grossed a mere $59.5M at the box office. Despite Wayans being relatively new to the scene, the film featured an entertaining and equally ridiculous story full of laughs and excitement that will keep you hooked from start to finish.<\/p>\nCraig’s comments<\/strong>: I think two things hurt The Last Boy Scout<\/em>: 1) Many viewed it as more of a comedy than action film and 2) The opening scene of the football player running down the field and then pulling out a gun to shoot opposing players turned people off.\u00a0 \u00a0I loved The Last Boy Scout<\/em>.\u00a0 I felt it was the right mix of action and comedy with many memorable scenes including two of my favorites: “If you touch me again, I’ll kill you” and the scene in the alley when Bruce Willis is about to get killed and survives because of a, pardon the expression, “killing joke.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nThe Rundown<\/em> (2003)<\/strong>
\nThis little known 2003 buddy comedy, directed by Peter Berg (Hancock) and starring Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson and Sean \u201cThat Guy Who Played Stiffler\u201d William Scott, is an absolute hoot to watch. One of our personal favorites, The Rundown<\/em> isn\u2019t a great movie by any stretch; it features a fairly predictable plot and some pretty corny moments, but damn if it isn\u2019t just a whole lot of fun to watch. Great cast chemistry can often elevate an average film, and that\u2019s most definitely the case here, as Johnson and Scott play well with each other, while Christopher Walken\u2019s villain is also a surprisingly organic contribution to the film. Is it going to win any Oscars? Definitely not, but it\u2019s the kind of movie we\u2019ll never turn off if we stumble upon it when we\u2019re scrolling through the channels late at night. Also starring Rosario Dawson, it\u2019s a nifty little movie with some really great fight scenes.<\/p>\nCraig’s comments<\/strong>: If The Rundown<\/em> had been made a little later in Dwayne Johnson’s career, I believe it would have been a hit.\u00a0 The Rundown<\/em> is a great, fun buddy-movie.\u00a0 What’s equally surprising to me (that it wasn’t a hit), is that there was never a sequel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nThe Way of the Gun (2000)<\/strong>
\nBefore he was directing the aforementioned Jack Reacher<\/em>, Christopher McQuarrie was best known for both writing The Usual Suspects (1998) and directing this cult classic starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliet Lewis, Taye Diggs and James Caan. Following two ill-advised career criminals as they kidnap the surrogate mother of a strange and mysterious man, The Way of the Gun was the subject of many a lukewarm film review upon its release; however, like a fine wine its reputation has gotten much better with age. Now considered an underrated film in the action genre, The Way of the Gun features a particularly strong turn from the savvy veteran Caan.<\/p>\nCraig’s comments<\/strong>:\u00a0 I love The Way of the Gun<\/em>.\u00a0 Admittedly, it’s not for everyone.\u00a0 At times it’s profane, not politically correct and gory.\u00a0 Still, The Way of the Gun<\/em> is so unlike most Hollywood movies, with characters (and a great cast) in a story that’s so compelling, it draws me in any time it’s on or I pull out the dvd.<\/p>\nCraig’s additional comments<\/strong>: There were two Stallone movies (Demolition Man<\/em> and Cliffhanger<\/em>) that made Jones’ list that I almost put in my top three.\u00a0 The reason I decided against including them is because, they’d be obvious choices for me and I think these other three films deserve greater notice as well.\u00a0 I also didn’t include John Wick<\/em> because I don’t think it is underrated.\u00a0 Doesn’t everybody love John Wick<\/em>?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riley Jones and Goliath present The Top 20 Underrated Action Movies.\u00a0 Using just Jones’ list, here are his comments (and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21078,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21077\/revisions\/21078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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