Everyone is a Critic: My All-Time Favorites – Action Movies

Posted: August 10, 2026 | Author: kayelynnebooth | Filed under: Action/Adventure, Everyone is a Critic, Movie Review, Movies, Review | Tags: Action Movies, Everyone is a Critic, Movie Review, Movies, Writing to be Read | 4 Comments

There are some movies that I can watch over and over and never get tired of them because they are so fun to watch. I’m sure certain movies are the same for everyone, in this respect. For “Everyone is a Critic” in 2026, I’d like to talk about my all-time favorites, because if you haven’t seen them, they are worth watching, and if you have, maybe this will remind you how fun they are, and you’ll give one or two another go. I’ve categorized them by the values I find in them, or the reason that I watch them. Many of them, I have watched so many times, I can quote them word for word through many parts. (And, yes, I am old, but they really don’t make them like they used to.)

Now, here, I will share them with you in the hopes that you will get the same enjoyment I have from watching them. For those who have seen the movie, the quotes will bring certain scenes alive in their minds. And if you haven’t seen the movie and you watch it, when you see the scene, you’ll understand why I chose the quotes that I did.

Action Movies – Keep me on the edge of my seat

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), with Harrison Ford

Both of these movies are so much fun to watch. While the next in series is also good, these first two are my favorites. I haven’t watched the third movie nearly as much.

Harrison Ford will always be Indiana Jones.

I have both of these in my personal collection.

Face Off (1997), with John Travolta and Nicholas Cage

A unique and clever story line where hero and villain switch places, each assuming the identity of the other. The premise is intriguing. Cage and Travolta play the roles of one another so well, it is uncanny. This movie has some unexpected twists which make it quite unpredictable and unique.

I have this movie in my personal collection.

Broken Arrow (1996), with John Travolta and Christian Slater

Vic Deakins (John Travolta) and Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are military pilots, partners on a mission to test a top-secret jet fighter, armed with nuclear missiles, until Deakins ejects the missiles in a dastardly plot to steal them, and crashes the plane, leaving Hale for dead. But Hale survives and sets out on his own to stop Deakins, enlisting the help of an unsuspecting park ranger, Terry Carmichal (Samantha Mathis)

Travolta makes a truly insane villain, and Slater makes a formidable adversary. This action movie is almost nonstop adventure with several twists and turns that keep you guessing. But it is just as fun to watch, even when you know what is coming.

I had this one in my personal movie collection, but I lent it to a ‘friend’ and never got it back. 😦

The Mummy (1999) & The Mummy Returns: Rise of the Scorpion King (2001), with Brandon Frasier and Rachel Weisz

Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) is a librarian on a treasure hunt after her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah), comes upon a mysterious puzzle box. To follow the puzzle box to the source, she springs a conman and thief, Rick O’Connell (Brandon Fraiser), from prison, saving him from hanging in return for his promise to lead them to the legendary city of Hamunoptra to find the treasure. But there is someone else who has been to Hamunoptra leading a group of Americans there, and the race is on. When their search for treasure awakens the mummy of Imotep (Arnold Vosloo), and stirs up an ancient Egyptian curse, they must stop him from releasing the forces of evil upon the earth.

In The Mummy Returns, Evelyn and Rick, and their eight-year-old son Alex, dig up the bracelet of Anubis, which controls the army of the Scorpion King, and evil forces bring back Imotep to beat the Scorpion King (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) and control his army, throwing Rick and Evelyn right into the middle of it all, as Evelyn discovers an incarnate Egyptian life as the Kings daughter and must face Anck Su Namun to stop them.

Great special effects in both of these movies, which I watch on Pluto T.V. for free.

Point Break (1991) with Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey and Kenu Reeves

Johnny Utah (Kenu Reeves) is a rookie FBI agent assigned to work undercover with Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey) to discover who is behind a series of bank robberies, a group of men known only as the ex-presidents, Pappas believes are surfers. Following on that theory, Utah infiltrates the surfer scene, uncovering the identity of the bank robbers, (the leader being Bodhi (Patrick Swayze)), who aren’t just surfers, but adrenalin junkies, and puts him at their mercy.

I don’t own this one and haven’t watched it for a while. I did a review comparison of this movie with the remake from 2015, which I was not impressed with. You can see that post here.

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