Bigness epitomized the 1980s. Big hair, big music, and the biggest action movies to ever grace the screen dominated pop culture. These '80s action movies featured over-muscled heroes who carried ...

Certain '80s action movies, like Flash Gordon, Big Trouble in Little China, and No Holds Barred, are so silly that we still can't take them seriously.

The '80s also saw action movies shape up overseas, with filmmakers from Japan and Hong Kong elevating the game. Whether you want bazooka blasts by the barrel or hard-hitting fistfights, '80s ...

In the 1980s, action movies got big. Not only were stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme larger than life, but so was the level of spectacle that directors worked to capture ...

Charlize Theron starred in one of Netflix's best action movies a few years ago, and now is the perfect time to watch it ...

Ok, so they're more "Tango & Cash" than NATO-ready. John Cena and Idris Elba work well as rival world leaders in Prime ...

The movie itself is like a live-action video game. It starts in a forest level, then it goes to a jungle level, followed by an air battle*, then a bunch of urban/warehouse levels.

The ’80s action movie was a natural evolution from the cop and vigilante movies of the ’70s, particularly Dirty Harry and its sequels (Magnum Force and The Enforcer, with their focus on ...

Decades after the heyday of films like 'Rambo,' 'Commando,' and 'Missing in Action,' our lives are now menaced by isolated, gun-toting misanthropes. It's not a coincidence.

On a good day, a bad action movie can still be entertaining if you go into it knowing what to expect. Sometimes that can be difficult when the ’80s had some of the biggest swings in the genre ...

In the ’80s, a parade of one-man armies marched into movie theaters, dispensing justice and obliterating the baddies — and all the real-world anxieties those villains represented.