Top 20 Action Movies of 1997
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- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsHarrison FordGary OldmanGlenn CloseCommunist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsCasper Van DienDenise RichardsDina MeyerHumans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.
- DirectorSteve WangStarsMark DacascosKadeem HardisonJohn Pyper-FergusonA prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.
- DirectorBarry SonnenfeldStarsTommy Lee JonesWill SmithLinda FiorentinoJames, an NYC cop, is hired by Agent K of a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. Together, they must recover an item that has been stolen by an intergalactic villain.
- DirectorRingo LamStarsChing Wan LauFrancis NgAmanda LeePolice Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H. K. Jockey Club.
- DirectorDwight H. LittleStarsWesley SnipesDiane LaneDaniel BenzaliA young woman is murdered in the White House. Homicide detective Regis investigates while Secret Service works against him. He's assigned agent Chance. She eventually cooperates after a man's framed.
- DirectorMimi LederStarsGeorge ClooneyNicole KidmanMarcel IuresA US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.
- DirectorSimon WestStarsNicolas CageJohn CusackJohn MalkovichNewly-paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner-transport plane when the passengers seize control.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsDemi MooreViggo MortensenAnne BancroftLt. Jordan, a US Navy topographic analyst, joins the US Navy Special Warfare Group and struggles to prove her worth in a unit dominated by men. But a cynical woman Texan senator has sold her out.
- DirectorJim KoufStarsJim BelushiTupac ShakurLela RochonAfter murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
- DirectorJoseph MerhiStarsMichael MadsenRoy ScheiderKeith DavidA stunt driver heading for prison on a minor charge is freed against his will by a terrorist gang. Then by kidnapping his wife, he is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.
- DirectorJames BecketStarsGary BuseyRoy ScheiderSteven BauerHired to rescue escaped inmates, a Florida man is framed for a Cuban gangster's assassination.
- DirectorFrédéric ForestierStarsDolph LundgrenMichael SarrazinMontel WilliamsWhen a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.
- DirectorSiu-Hung LeungStarsGary DanielsChuck JeffreysFrank GorshinMartial arts action film finds a retired detective returning to action to stop a martial arts master with steel fingers who is killing champions from all sports.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsPierce BrosnanJonathan PryceMichelle YeohJames Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
- DirectorKiefer SutherlandStarsKiefer SutherlandKim DickensVincent GalloA group of crooks, an ex con, his friend and a gun crazy gangster plan a drug heist, but not everything goes as planned.
- DirectorDavid WorthStarsDaniel BernhardtBeverly JohnsonMiles O'KeeffeAn ex-naval intelligence officer is forced to assassinate a CEO when his daughter is kidnapped by the Yakuza.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsMichael DudikoffPaul WinfieldRichard NortonRick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab.
- DirectorSam FirstenbergStarsErnie HudsonJeff FaheyRob StewartA team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.
- DirectorMark GriffithsStarsThomas Ian GriffithChris MulkeyMark CarltonAn ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.