r/ActionMovies

Toy Soldiers is a 1991 American action thriller film directed by Daniel Petrie Jr. and starring Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, Louis Gossett Jr. and Denholm Elliott.

Pitched as "Die Hard Meets the Dead Poets Society", its plot revolves around an all-male boarding school overtaken by terrorists.

While the authorities remain helpless, a group of rebellious and mischievous students decide to put their resourcefulness to good use.

I made a action crime comedy thriller for about $24K that was pure guerrilla style. 100% skeleton paid crew (DP, sound, AD and a gaffer sometimes), and mostly deferred actor pay. Wrote, directed, produced, and starred in it myself. I filmed in once then had to start over because my old DP was trash. I literally wasted at least $10K and it took so long to even start again and finish. I started writing it in 2017 started filming in 2022 and finished it in 2026 and it was distributed on Prime and Tubi. I hope you will be able to watch it. Its streaming free on Tubi.

https://tubitv.com/movies/100059912/look-behind

Look Behind is about a cop and a lawyer who's families were killed. They meet someone willing to help them get justice, but its an eye for an eye.

Blue Steel (1990)

Rating: 7.5/10

Watched: August 14, 2026

I have super-vague memories of seeing this one on late night cable, probably Cinemax, from way back in the day.

First off, it's got two of my favorite male actors, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown. Clancy Brown's barely in it but damn do I love the man and here, he seems like he's barely 25 years old.

That out of the way, I want to talk about Ron Silver for a minute. He's been a favorite of mine ever since I saw The Entity and that's because there's just somethin' about him. I knew he played the antagonist in this movie, but at no point did I recall how absolutely batshit crazy insane he goes.

I can't (won't) tell you all the nitty gritty details of Eugene's descent into complete and total madness, but I stand by my 'absolutely batshit crazy insane' statement. From the moment he sees Megan (Jamie Lee Curtis) shoot Tom Sizemore dead in a supermarket, he's on a downhill slope.

And what a slope it is. Silver gets the chance to chew on some scenery every now and again, which is just great, but it's those moments where he's pretending to be a totally normal guy that's more chilling, especially as the movie continues.

And as for Jamie Lee Curtis? Well. It's just really nice to see her in something other than a horror movie. As far as cop thrillers go, JLC plays Megan very well, showing a young female cop fresh out of the academy who's already dealing with a boatload of grief from her parents and pretty much anyone who finds out that she's a cop.

Having Eugene tossed into the mix like a live spree killer hand grenade is just the icing on the cake.

Blue Steel's pretty gritty and it's got a lot of neo-noir heart to it, but I DO have to admit that it falls into the realm of the slightly unbelievable in the last half hour, but that doesn't wreck it. Just makes it a bit over-the-top.

Gotta say, Blue Steel's a movie I don't see talked about a lot, and while every single person on the Internet uses the term 'underrated' to mean everything from 'this movie is terrible' to 'I just saw this extremely popular movie from 2000 and no one's talking about it 26 years later so it must not have been popular at all', I really do think it's an underrated movie.

You should check it out. I was pleasantly surprised and maybe you will be too.

Mine is Robocop's Auto 9.

Hey guys, are Extraction films are good?

I’m looking for some cool hand to hand fights and some gunfu, can they satisfy my needs for films like The Raid series?

Deep Cover is a 1992 American crime film starring Laurence Fishburne as a cop who goes undercover to bring down a Los Angeles drug cartel.

It was directed by Bill Duke based on a screenplay by Henry Bean and Michael Tolkin. Jeff Goldblum and Charles Martin Smith also feature.