The classic siege movie gets an irreverent, self-aware tune-up here from director Joe Carnahan, who recruits his frequent collaborator Frank Grillo for a con-man role and brings a grizzled Gerard Butler aboard as a wry assassin. Where to watch: Hulu ( Watch the trailer)Ĭast: Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss The supporting cast ranges from over-qualified (Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeoh) to head-scratching (Mel Gibson, Rob Gronkowski), but this is the Grillo show all the way, an often silly yet convincing argument for his skills. Despite the quasi-futuristic setting, the music, the cartoonish villains, and the video game references all recall an earlier era where an actor like Grillo might have shined. Boss Level, a brisk adventure that puts the buff actor in a Groundhog Day-like time loop trap where he fights off attackers and dies trying every day, is aware of Grillo's throwback star power, a strand of grizzled tough-guy charisma, and filmmaker Joe Carnahan, working from a script he co-wrote with Chris and Eddie Borey, wraps his lead in self-aware '80s and '90s nostalgia. Where to watch: Netflix ( Watch the trailer) HuluĬast: Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeohįrank Grillo, a menacing scene-stealer in the MCU and a charming lead in scrappy thrillers like The Purge: Anarchy and Wheelman, has been underserved by the damaged modern action movie ecosystem.
From the first scene, the Spanish film's bleak and foreboding tone carries the action-centering on a police officer tasked with working alongside a new partner to oversee a "high-risk transfer" involving the deadly head of a Romanian gang across icy, barren terrain-even as the plot melts away to reveal a more conventional revenge movie slicked with brutal violence. Below Zero is a particularly gruesome example of what the "transfer-gone-wrong" genre has to offer, a close-quarters thriller that works best when it keeps its characters confined to the tightest possible space. Any time a group of incarcerated individuals get placed in a large vehicle (the more box-like and state-of-the-art the better), you can guarantee something unbearably tense is about to go down. Prisoner transportation might be the task with the worst success-to-failure ratio in all of action movie-dom. Cast: Javier Gutiérrez, Karra Elejalde, Isak Férriz, Luis Callejo
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