Genre: Action & Adventure
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Taken 2 (2012)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace …
Directed by: Olivier Megaton
Retired special ops agent Bryan Mills and his ex-wife are abducted in Istanbul in a bid to avenge the deaths of his daughter Kim's kidnappers. This time, it's Kim who helps to free…
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Cast: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie …
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Honest Abe: he was the 16th president, the Great Emancipator ... and a righteous slayer of the undead spurred to action by his mother's vampiric murder. History and legend are both…
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Get the Gringo (2012)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jesús Ochoa …
Directed by: Adrian Grunberg
Mel Gibson stars as a man who ends up in a notorious Mexican prison after his attempt to get away with a million-dollar stash ends in his arrest. With no friends among his fellow inmates, the…
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Battleship (2012)
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna …
Directed by: Peter Berg
The classic Battleship board game moves to the big screen in this at-sea adventure about defending planet Earth from a mysterious enemy fleet. At the center of the action is a pair of naval…
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The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton …
Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Following the Jason Bourne debacle, the CIA finds itself dealing with a familiar threat when another estranged operative surfaces. Jeremy Renner stars alongside Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz…
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Dredd (2012)
Cast: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey …
Directed by: Pete Travis
In the future, catastrophic wars have transformed Earth into a barren wasteland with the remaining population crowded into megacities, where all-powerful cops -- including the ultraviolent…
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Underworld: Awakening (2012)
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy …
Directed by: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Reprising her role as the vampire Selene, Kate Beckinsale stars in this installment in the stylish vampires vs. werewolves franchise. When humans discover the Vampires and Lycans, Selene…
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Lockout (2012)
Cast: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Vincent Regan …
Directed by: James Mather, Stephen St. Leger
A former government agent wrongly accused of a crime gets a shot at freedom -- if he can engineer a high-risk mission to outer space in order to rescue the president's daughter from a…
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Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Kevin Durand …
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
The Resident Evil franchise kicks into fifth gear, with the dreaded Las Plagas parasite returning to play an important role in the action. Taking a page from the fifth Resident Evil game, the…
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Scott Adkins …
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
This pulse-pounding thriller dramatizes the night of May 2, 2011, when the Navy's SEAL Team 6 set out to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. The world knows of their triumph; now the…
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson …
Directed by: Brad Peyton
When he traces a distress signal about his grandfather's whereabouts to an island that doesn't seem to exist, fearless teen Sean Anderson springs into adventure mode and teams up…
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The Raven (2012)
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve …
Directed by: James McTeigue
After discovering that a string of baffling murders seems to be inspired by the macabre short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore cop Emmett Fields turns to the brilliant-but-boozy author…
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Contraband (2012)
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster …
Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago -- smuggling -- to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday…
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End of Watch (2012)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick …
Directed by: David Ayer
Officers Taylor and Zavala patrol the streets of South Central Los Angeles, an area of the city ruled by gangs and riddled with drug violence. Their perilous beat is captured on security…
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Safe (2012)
Cast: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Robert John Burke …
Directed by: Boaz Yakin
A former cage fighter comes to the aid of a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by ruthless Triad gangsters. Before the rescue is over, the pair will go up against not only her abductors, but also the…
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Stolen (2012)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Malin Akerman, Josh Lucas …
Directed by: Simon West
Master thief Will Montgomery is ready to leave his criminal past behind. But when his daughter is kidnapped, he has no choice but to reunite with his old partner in crime and pull off one last heist.
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6 Bullets (2012)
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joe Flanigan, Bianca Bree …
Directed by: Ernie Barbarash
The Muscles from Brussels kicks his way back onto the big screen in this action-packed tale of a former mercenary who is lured back into the dangerous business of finding missing children…
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Alex Cross (2012)
Cast: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols …
Directed by: Rob Cohen
Detective/psychologist Alex Cross faces off against a disturbing serial killer in this exciting action thriller based on James Patterson's best-selling novels. As the stakes keep getting…
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Neighboring Sounds (2012)
Cast: Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings …
Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho
A disparate group of upper-middle-class neighbors, including a lonely housewife and a proud grandfather, fear that their apartment building will be overrun by criminals and hire a private…
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Premium Rush (2012)
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Chung, Michael Shannon …
Directed by: David Koepp
In this fast-paced action flick, a New York City bicycle messenger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) picks up a mysterious envelope for urgent cross-town delivery. But as the lad cycles against the…
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One for the Money (2012)
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Jason O'Mara, Daniel Sunjata …
Directed by: Julie Anne Robinson
Janet Evanovich's spunky heroine, Stephanie Plum, is adrift after getting a divorce and losing her job. To make ends meet, she becomes a bounty hunter, with her first big case revolving…
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Iron Sky (2012)
Cast: Julia Dietze, Gotz Otto, Peta Sergeant …
Directed by: Timo Vuorensola
Having secretly fled to a base on the moon at the end of World War II, Nazis put the final touches on their scheme to launch an invasion of Earth. When a new space shuttle mission threatens…
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Red Dawn (2012)
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki …
Directed by: Dan Bradley
When Chinese military forces invade American soil and try to pacify citizens in one community, Marine Jed Eckert (Chris Hemsworth) and a group of his local teenage pals elude capture and go…
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Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)
Cast: Courtenay Taylor, Matthew Mercer, Salli Saffioti …
Directed by: Makoto Kamiya
Federal agent Leon S. Kennedy pursues the deadliest evil to be unleashed yet in Europe, which is plagued by a civil war and bloodthirsty bio weapons that threaten the population. Leon's…
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The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Cung Le, Lucy Liu …
Directed by: RZA
Combining kung-fu action and hip-hop style, this martial arts thriller relates the saga of a Chinese blacksmith caught up in a battle between clans. Forced to defend his own village, the…