This is a marathon of standalone action films from 1990 to 1999, not a connected story. It runs from Total Recall and Die Hard 2 through Hong Kong gun ballets, Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Cage vehicles, to The Matrix at the end of the decade; a few entries belong to longer series, such as Die Hard, Terminator, Bond and Mission: Impossible.
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No. 01 · 1990 · Film
Total Recall recap
In 2084, construction worker Douglas Quaid keeps dreaming of Mars and a mysterious woman. He visits Rekall, a company that implants memories of holidays, and asks for a trip as a secret agent, but the procedure goes wrong when it touches real memories that have been wiped. Suddenly his co-workers and his wife Lori try to kill him. A recording from his former self, Hauser, tells him he was an agent for Vilos Cohaagen, the man who runs Mars and sells its air, and sends him there. On Mars, Quaid finds Melina, the woman from his dreams, and joins the mutant rebels, chased by Cohaagen's enforcer Richter. Quaid meets the rebel leader Kuato and learns about an alien reactor buried under the mountain.
How Total Recall ends
Hauser's message turns out to be a trap: Hauser was Cohaagen's friend, and the whole escape was a plan to find Kuato, who is killed. Quaid refuses to become Hauser again, kills Richter, and starts the alien reactor, which melts the ice and gives Mars a breathable atmosphere. Cohaagen dies in the open air. Quaid and Melina kiss under a blue sky, and Quaid wonders whether it is all a dream.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 02 · 1990 · Film
Die Hard 2 recap
A year after the Nakatomi tower, John McClane waits at Washington Dulles Airport on Christmas Eve for his wife Holly's plane. A rogue special forces unit led by Colonel Stuart seizes the airport's systems to free General Esperanza, a drug-dealing dictator being flown in for trial. With the runway lights and radio out, dozens of planes, Holly's among them, circle in a snowstorm running low on fuel, and Stuart crashes one plane to show he is serious. McClane fights the terrorists through the terminal and a church, butting heads with the airport police chief Carmine Lorenzo. Major Grant's special forces team arrives to help.
How Die Hard 2 ends
Grant's team is secretly working with Stuart. McClane catches up with them as they try to escape on a Boeing 747, jumps onto the wing, and opens the fuel tank before he is kicked off. He lights the trail of fuel, and the plane explodes on the runway, killing Stuart, Esperanza and Grant. The fire lights the way for the circling planes to land, and McClane finds Holly. Die Hard with a Vengeance follows.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 03 · 1991 · Film
Point Break recap
FBI agent Johnny Utah, a former college football star, joins the Los Angeles office and is paired with the veteran Angelo Pappas, who believes a gang of bank robbers called the Ex-Presidents, who wear masks of former presidents, are surfers. Utah learns to surf from Tyler, a waitress, and falls for her. He is drawn into the circle of Bodhi, a charismatic surfer, and realises Bodhi's crew are the Ex-Presidents. After a chase on foot, Utah has Bodhi in his sights but cannot shoot. Bodhi takes Utah skydiving, reveals he knows Utah is a cop, and has his friends kidnap Tyler to force Utah to help with one last bank job.
How Point Break ends
The robbery goes wrong, Pappas and one of Bodhi's crew are killed, and Bodhi escapes by plane. Utah jumps out after him without a parachute and catches him in mid-air, but lets him go. Months later, Utah finds Bodhi in Australia waiting for a huge storm swell at Bells Beach. Utah lets him paddle out into the waves, which certainly kill him, and throws his FBI badge into the sea.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 04 · 1991 · Film
Terminator 2: Judgment Day recap
In 1995, two Terminators are sent back from the future: a T-1000, made of liquid metal, sent by the machines to kill the teenage John Connor, future leader of the resistance, and an older T-800, reprogrammed by the adult John to protect him. John's mother Sarah Connor is locked in a mental hospital for her warnings about Judgment Day. The T-800 rescues John from the T-1000, and John orders it not to kill anyone. Together they break Sarah out. She learns that Cyberdyne Systems engineer Miles Dyson is about to create Skynet using parts of the first Terminator, and goes to kill him, but stops. Dyson, shown the future, helps them destroy his research.
How Terminator 2: Judgment Day ends
Dyson dies blowing up Cyberdyne's lab. The T-1000 chases the Connors to a steel mill, where the T-800 fires a grenade into it and it falls into molten steel. The T-800, carrying the last chip of future technology, has Sarah lower it into the steel too. Sarah drives into the night saying the future is not set. Terminator 3 follows.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 05 · 1992 · Film
Hard Boiled recap
Inspector Tequila Yuen loses his partner in a teahouse shootout with gun smugglers. The triad boss Mr. Hoi is killed by the rising gangster Johnny Wong, and Tequila clashes with Alan, a hitman working for Wong who turns out to be an undercover cop. The two join forces. Wong's hired gun Mad Dog holds a strict code. Alan learns that Wong keeps his arsenal in a vault beneath a hospital, and the police raid it. Wong's men seize the hospital and take patients hostage, and Tequila carries newborn babies out of the maternity ward under fire while Alan fights through the corridors.
How Hard Boiled ends
Mad Dog refuses to kill patients and turns on Wong, who kills him. Wong uses Alan as a human shield, and Tequila shoots Wong dead. The hospital burns but the babies are saved. Alan is reported killed, but he has faked his death and sails away to a new life.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 06 · 1992 · Film
Under Siege recap
Casey Ryback, the cook on the battleship USS Missouri, is a former Navy SEAL demoted for hitting an officer. During the captain's birthday party on the ship's last voyage, the rogue ex-CIA man William Strannix and the ship's executive officer, Commander Krill, seize the ship with a band of mercenaries posing as caterers. They plan to steal its Tomahawk nuclear missiles and sell them. Krill has Ryback locked in the freezer, but he escapes. With Jordan Tate, a model hired for the party, and a handful of freed sailors, Ryback picks off the hijackers one by one, while the Navy prepares to retake the ship.
How Under Siege ends
Strannix fires missiles at Honolulu; one is shot down, and Ryback reaches the control room to abort the other. Krill is killed in a knife fight with Ryback, and Strannix dies when Ryback stabs him in the eye and shoves his head into a computer monitor. The surviving crew are rescued.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 07 · 1993 · Film
Cliffhanger recap
Mountain rescue climber Gabe Walker fails to save his partner Hal's girlfriend Sarah, who falls to her death, and quits. Months later he returns to the Rockies to collect his things just as a distress call comes in. A gang led by Eric Qualen has stolen $100 million in US Treasury money in a mid-air heist, but their plane crashes and the three cases of cash are scattered across the peaks. Gabe and Hal answer the call and are taken prisoner, forced to guide the thieves to the money. Gabe escapes and races to reach the cases first, hunting the gang across the snow with help from his old girlfriend Jessie.
How Cliffhanger ends
Qualen captures Jessie and forces Gabe to hand over the money from a helicopter. Gabe fights Qualen on a ladder hanging from the helicopter over a gorge, climbs onto a cliff ledge and snags the helicopter on the rock, and it falls with Qualen aboard. Gabe, Hal and Jessie are picked up by a rescue helicopter.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 08 · 1993 · Film
The Fugitive recap
Chicago surgeon Richard Kimble is convicted of murdering his wife Helen, although he insists a one-armed man did it. On the way to prison, a crash between the bus and a train lets him escape. Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard hunts him, and when Kimble says he did not kill his wife, Gerard says he does not care. Kimble jumps from a dam to escape, sneaks back into Chicago, and uses a hospital's prosthetics records to find the one-armed man, Fredrick Sykes, an ex-cop. Sykes works security for a drug company, and Kimble works out that his friend Dr. Charles Nichols covered up the deadly side effects of a new drug, Provasic, and sent Sykes to kill him.
How The Fugitive ends
Kimble fights Sykes on a train and handcuffs him to a pole, then goes to a hotel conference to expose Nichols in front of his colleagues. Gerard, now convinced Kimble is innocent, follows them across the roof and into the laundry room, and Kimble knocks out Nichols to save Gerard. Kimble surrenders, and Gerard takes off his handcuffs in the car.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 09 · 1993 · Film
Demolition Man recap
In 1996, Los Angeles cop John Spartan captures the psychopath Simon Phoenix, but a busload of hostages dies in the process, and Spartan is sentenced to be frozen in a cryo-prison along with Phoenix. In 2032, Phoenix is thawed for parole and escapes into San Angeles, a peaceful, sterile society run by Dr. Raymond Cocteau, where swearing is fined and violence has disappeared. The police cannot cope, so they thaw Spartan to catch him. Spartan teams up with Lenina Huxley, a cop who loves the 20th century. Phoenix, it turns out, was programmed in prison to kill Edgar Friendly, the leader of the rebels living underground.
How Demolition Man ends
Phoenix turns on Cocteau and kills him, then frees other frozen criminals. Spartan chases him to the cryo-prison, freezes him with liquid nitrogen and kicks his head off, and the prison explodes. Spartan suggests the people of San Angeles and the rebels meet each other halfway, and kisses Huxley.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 10 · 1994 · Film
Speed recap
LAPD SWAT officer Jack Traven and his partner Harry save people trapped in an elevator by the bomber Howard Payne, a retired cop who wants a ransom. A week later Payne blows up a bus and calls Jack: another bus has a bomb that will arm once it passes 50 miles per hour and explode if it drops below 50. Jack gets aboard, the driver is shot by a passenger, and Annie, a passenger, takes the wheel. The bus jumps a gap in an unfinished freeway. Harry tracks Payne to his house and is killed by a booby trap. Jack has the passengers evacuated at the airport, and he and Annie escape out of the bottom as the bus explodes.
How Speed ends
Payne has been watching through a camera on the bus, so he knows he was cheated. He takes Annie hostage with the ransom and boards a subway train. Jack chases them, fights Payne on the roof of the train, and Payne is decapitated by a signal light. The train derails onto Hollywood Boulevard, and Jack and Annie kiss among the onlookers. Speed 2 follows, without Jack.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 11 · 1994 · Film
True Lies recap
Harry Tasker lets his wife Helen and daughter Dana think he is a dull computer salesman, but he is a secret agent for Omega Sector. Chasing the terrorist group Crimson Jihad, led by Salim Abu Aziz, he meets the art dealer Juno Skinner. Harry learns Helen is meeting Simon, a used-car salesman who poses as a spy to impress women, and uses his agency to scare Simon and interrogate Helen, who admits she wants excitement. Harry sets her up with a harmless fake spy mission, which goes wrong when Crimson Jihad kidnaps them both. Aziz has smuggled four nuclear warheads into the United States.
How True Lies ends
Aziz sets off one warhead on a Florida key, and Harry and Helen escape. Aziz takes Dana hostage on a skyscraper in Miami, and Harry flies a Harrier jet to rescue her, launching Aziz into a helicopter on a missile. A year later, Harry and Helen work together as agents, and they dance a tango at a party after Simon is scared off one last time.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 12 · 1994 · Film
Léon: The Professional recap
Leon is a quiet, illiterate hitman in New York who cares for a houseplant and takes jobs from the restaurant owner Tony. His neighbour Mathilda, twelve, lives with an abusive family. Corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield, who takes drugs, kills her whole family, including her four-year-old brother, over stolen cocaine. Mathilda, out at the shop, walks past her door and knocks on Leon's, and he lets her in. She asks him to teach her to kill so she can avenge her brother. Leon reluctantly trains her, and in return she teaches him to read. Mathilda tries to kill Stansfield alone at the DEA office and is caught.
How Léon: The Professional ends
Leon rescues Mathilda, and Stansfield sends a police army to his apartment. Leon gets Mathilda out through a vent, then tries to walk out disguised as a wounded officer. Stansfield shoots him from behind, and the dying Leon hands him a grenade pin, saying it is from Mathilda, and blows them both up. Mathilda goes back to school and plants Leon's houseplant in the ground.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 13 · 1995 · Film
Bad Boys recap
Miami narcotics detectives Marcus Burnett, a family man, and Mike Lowrey, a rich playboy, find that $100 million of heroin they seized has been stolen from the police evidence room. Internal Affairs gives them 72 hours before the unit is shut down. Mike's informant Max is murdered by the thief, Fouchet, and her friend Julie, the only witness, will speak only to Mike. Mike is not there, so Marcus pretends to be Mike, and the two have to swap lives, with Marcus living in Mike's apartment and Mike staying at Marcus's house. They track the stolen drugs to Fouchet's gang, who are diluting them for sale.
How Bad Boys ends
Fouchet takes Julie hostage and prepares to sell the drugs at an airport hangar. Mike and Marcus raid the hangar, it burns, and Mike chases Fouchet down the runway and shoots him dead after a short standoff. Marcus's wife finds out the truth about the swap. Bad Boys II follows.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 14 · 1995 · Film
Die Hard with a Vengeance recap
A department store blows up in Manhattan, and a bomber calling himself Simon demands that John McClane, suspended and hung over, do as he says. Simon sends McClane to Harlem wearing an offensive sign, where an electrician named Zeus Carver saves his life, and the two are forced together on a string of riddles and races across the city. Simon is Simon Gruber, brother of Hans from the first Die Hard. While the police search for a bomb hidden in a school, Simon's men empty the Federal Reserve Bank of billions in gold bullion through a subway tunnel. McClane and Zeus survive a flood in an aqueduct and find the gold on a ship.
How Die Hard with a Vengeance ends
The ship blows up, and McClane and Zeus escape. The school bomb was a fake. McClane works out from a bottle of aspirin that Simon is hiding near the Canadian border, and he and the police find him with the gold. Simon's helicopter attacks, and McClane shoots a power line that falls on the helicopter, killing Simon. McClane calls his estranged wife Holly. Live Free or Die Hard came twelve years later.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 15 · 1995 · Film
GoldenEye recap
Pierce Brosnan's Bond and agent 006, Alec Trevelyan, raid a Soviet chemical weapons plant in 1986, and Trevelyan appears to be executed by Colonel Ourumov. Nine years later, under a new M, Ourumov and the assassin Xenia Onatopp steal the controls of GoldenEye, a satellite weapon that fires an electromagnetic pulse, and destroy the Severnaya base in Siberia. The only survivor is programmer Natalya Simonova. In St. Petersburg, Bond finds that the head of the Janus crime syndicate is Trevelyan, who faked his death and blames Britain for the betrayal of his Cossack parents. Bond chases Ourumov through the streets in a tank and kills him.
How GoldenEye ends
Trevelyan plans to use a second GoldenEye satellite to erase London's financial records while robbing the Bank of England. Bond and Natalya find his base under a lake in Cuba. Bond kills Xenia, and Natalya sends the satellite into the atmosphere to burn up. Bond drops Trevelyan from the radio dish, and the falling antenna crushes him. Tomorrow Never Dies follows.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 16 · 1995 · Film
Heat recap
Neil McCauley, a professional thief who lives by the rule of being ready to walk away from anything in thirty seconds, robs an armoured car with his crew. A new member, Waingro, murders a guard, and Neil fails to kill him. LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna, whose obsession with work is wrecking his third marriage, takes the case. Neil's fence sets up a bigger score, and Hanna watches the crew. Neil falls for Eady, a graphic designer. Hanna pulls Neil over and the two men talk over coffee, admitting they will kill each other if it comes to it. Waingro betrays the crew to the money launderer Van Zant. The crew rob a downtown bank, and a tip-off leads to a huge street gunfight.
How Heat ends
Most of Neil's crew are killed; Chris Shiherlis escapes, wounded. Neil kills Van Zant and is about to leave the country with Eady but goes back to kill Waingro at his hotel. Hanna spots him, and Neil abandons Eady. Hanna chases him across the LAX runways and shoots him, then holds his hand as he dies.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 17 · 1996 · Film
Mission: Impossible recap
IMF agent Ethan Hunt's team, led by Jim Phelps, tries to stop the theft of a list of undercover agents, the NOC list, in Prague. The mission is a disaster: almost everyone is killed, and Ethan learns from the IMF director Kittridge that the operation was a mole hunt and he is the suspect. Ethan escapes, joined by Phelps's wife Claire. He contacts the arms dealer Max, who wants the real NOC list, and recruits two disavowed agents, Luther and Krieger, to steal it from CIA headquarters at Langley, where Ethan is lowered into a sealed vault on a cable. Phelps turns up alive and blames Kittridge.
How Mission: Impossible ends
Ethan works out that Phelps is the mole and Claire is in on it. On the Channel Tunnel train, Ethan exposes Phelps to Kittridge using a camera in his glasses. Krieger flies a helicopter into the tunnel tethered to the train, Phelps kills Claire, and Ethan blows up the helicopter with explosive gum, killing Phelps and Krieger. Ethan is cleared and offered a new mission. Mission: Impossible 2 follows.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 18 · 1996 · Film
The Rock recap
Brigadier General Francis Hummel, angry that families of marines killed in secret missions were never compensated, steals rockets loaded with VX nerve gas and takes 81 tourists hostage on Alcatraz. He demands $100 million or he will fire the rockets at San Francisco. The FBI sends a Navy SEAL team with Stanley Goodspeed, a chemical weapons expert, and John Mason, a British SAS agent imprisoned for decades without trial, the only man ever to escape from Alcatraz. Hummel's men kill the SEALs in an ambush, leaving Goodspeed and Mason to stop the rockets themselves. Mason tries to run but returns.
How The Rock ends
Hummel, never meaning to kill civilians, aborts the launches, and his own men turn on him and kill him. Goodspeed kills the remaining mercenaries, one of them with a VX bead, and disarms the last rocket by tearing out its guidance chips. He lights green flares to call off the air strike just in time. He tells the FBI that Mason died, and Mason gives him the location of secret government microfilm, which Goodspeed later collects.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 19 · 1997 · Film
Con Air recap
Army Ranger Cameron Poe is jailed for killing a man while defending his pregnant wife. Eight years later he is paroled and flies home on a prison transport plane full of the country's worst convicts, including Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom, Diamond Dog and the serial killer Garland Greene. Cyrus and his crew take over the plane. Poe could walk away, but stays aboard to protect a guard and his diabetic cellmate Baby-O. On the ground, US Marshal Vince Larkin tracks the plane and argues with a DEA agent who wants to shoot it down. The convicts land in the desert to get a getaway plane, and Poe secretly helps Larkin.
How Con Air ends
The plane crashes onto the Las Vegas Strip. Cyrus and others escape on a fire truck, and Poe and Larkin chase them; Cyrus is crushed by a pile driver. Poe meets his daughter for the first time. Garland Greene sits in a casino playing craps.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 20 · 1997 · Film
Face/Off recap
FBI agent Sean Archer has been obsessed with the terrorist Castor Troy since Castor accidentally killed his son. Archer captures Castor, who falls into a coma, but Castor has planted a bomb somewhere in Los Angeles. To find it, Archer undergoes surgery to take Castor's face and goes into a maximum security prison to question Castor's brother Pollux. Castor wakes, forces the doctors to give him Archer's face, kills everyone who knew, and takes over Archer's life, job and family. Archer, trapped in prison as Castor, escapes and seeks help from Castor's friends, including Sasha, the mother of Castor's son Adam.
How Face/Off ends
Archer convinces his wife Eve of the truth with a blood test. At a funeral in a church, the two men shoot it out, and Sasha dies, asking Archer to look after Adam. After a speedboat chase, Archer kills Castor with a harpoon gun. Archer gets his own face back and brings Adam home to his family.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 21 · 1997 · Film
Air Force One recap
US President James Marshall gives a speech in Moscow promising never to negotiate with terrorists. On the flight home, Kazakh nationalists led by Ivan Korshunov hijack Air Force One with help from a Secret Service agent, Gibbs. Marshall is put in an escape pod and believed safe, but he stays aboard and hides in the hold, while the hijackers hold his wife Grace and daughter Alice and demand the release of General Radek, a jailed Kazakh dictator. Marshall fights the hijackers one at a time, gets the other hostages parachuted out and tries to land the plane himself. Vice President Bennett holds firm in Washington, and Radek is released.
How Air Force One ends
Marshall kills Korshunov, breaking his neck with a parachute cord, and calls off Radek's release; Radek is shot as he escapes. Damaged by fighter jets, Air Force One cannot land, so a rescue plane sends a zip line. Marshall sends his family across, and Gibbs reveals himself as the traitor. Marshall is pulled to safety at the last moment, and Gibbs goes down with the plane into the sea. The rescue plane becomes Air Force One.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 22 · 1998 · Film
Blade recap
Blade is half vampire, born as his mother was dying from a vampire bite, and has a vampire's strength but not its weaknesses, except a thirst for blood that he controls with a serum. With his mentor Whistler, he hunts the vampires who secretly rule the city. He saves the haematologist Karen Jenson after she is bitten. Deacon Frost, an ambitious young vampire scorned by the vampire elders because he was turned rather than born, wants to use an ancient prophecy to awaken La Magra, the blood god, and turn himself into it. Frost attacks Whistler's hideout, and Whistler, bitten, kills himself.
How Blade ends
Frost captures Karen and Blade and uses Blade's blood to perform the ritual, killing the elders and becoming La Magra. Blade drinks Karen's blood to recover his strength, and then injects Frost with an anticoagulant, EDTA, that makes him explode. Karen offers to cure Blade, but he chooses to keep hunting. In Moscow, he goes after another vampire. Blade II follows.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 23 · 1998 · Film
Rush Hour recap
In Hong Kong, Detective Inspector Lee seizes stolen Chinese artefacts from the crime lord Juntao. Later, the Chinese consul Han's daughter, Soo Yung, whom Lee trained in martial arts, is kidnapped in Los Angeles by Juntao's gang. Han calls Lee in, but the FBI wants him kept out of the way and dumps him on LAPD detective James Carter, a loud, reckless cop who has been told to babysit him. The two clash, then team up to investigate on their own. Juntao demands a $50 million ransom. Following the gang's explosives through Carter's street contacts, the two work out that Juntao is Thomas Griffin, the British commander who was Han's friend.
How Rush Hour ends
At the opening of a Chinese art exhibition, Lee and Carter rescue Soo Yung from a bomb vest, and Griffin falls to his death from the rafters; Lee falls too, and Carter catches him in a banner. Han offers Carter a holiday in Hong Kong, and he flies there with Lee. Rush Hour 2 follows.
Post-credits scenes
The end credits run over outtakes of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker fluffing lines and stunts. There is no story scene.
No. 24 · 1998 · Film
Ronin recap
In Paris, a group of freelance operatives meet at the request of Deirdre, an Irishwoman: Sam, an American; Vincent, a Frenchman; Gregor, a German; Spence, a British weapons man; and Larry, a driver. They are hired to steal a briefcase from a heavily armed convoy before it is sold to the Russian mob, though no one says what is inside. Spence is fired for losing his nerve. The team takes the case in Nice in a car chase, but Gregor swaps it for a fake and runs, planning to sell it to the Russians. Larry is killed. Sam is shot and Vincent removes the bullet. They track Gregor to a theatre in Arles, and on to a Russian figure skater's show in Paris.
How Ronin ends
Gregor's Russian buyer has the skater shot during her performance to cover the exchange, and Seamus, Deirdre's boss, kills Gregor and the buyer and takes the case. Sam lets Deirdre go and chases Seamus, and when Seamus is about to kill Vincent, Sam shoots him dead. Sam reveals he was a CIA agent all along. A radio reports that Seamus's death has helped bring peace in Northern Ireland, and the contents of the case are never revealed.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 25 · 1998 · Film
Enemy of the State recap
NSA official Thomas Reynolds has a congressman murdered for opposing a surveillance bill, and a wildlife camera records it. The biologist who filmed it, fleeing NSA agents, slips the disk into the bag of an old acquaintance, the Washington labour lawyer Robert Clayton Dean, before being killed. The NSA turns Dean's life upside down, freezing his accounts, leaking false stories and costing him his job and marriage. Dean finds Brill, a paranoid former NSA operative who lives off the grid. Brill teaches him to dodge surveillance and turns the NSA's own tools against Reynolds, recording him and bugging a congressman.
How Enemy of the State ends
Reynolds captures Brill. Dean leads Reynolds's team to a restaurant owned by the mob boss Pintero, whom Dean has also been chasing, and convinces each side the other has the tape. The shootout kills Reynolds, his men and Pintero's gang. Dean is cleared and the bill dies. Brill disappears to a tropical island and sends Dean a message on television.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
No. 26 · 1999 · Film
The Matrix recap
Thomas Anderson, a programmer and hacker called Neo, is contacted by the rebel Trinity and her leader Morpheus. Morpheus offers him a red pill, and Neo wakes in a pod in the real world, around 2199, where machines farm humans for energy and keep their minds in a simulation called the Matrix. Morpheus believes Neo is the One, prophesied to free humanity. On the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar, Neo learns to bend the rules of the Matrix, and the Oracle hints that he is not the One. Cypher, a crew member tired of the real world, betrays them to the Agents so he can be reinserted into the Matrix, and Morpheus is captured.
How The Matrix ends
Neo and Trinity rescue Morpheus from a building guarded by Agents. Agent Smith shoots Neo dead, but Trinity tells his body she loves him, he revives, stops bullets in mid-air, and destroys Smith from inside. Neo phones the machines to say he will show people a world without rules, then flies into the sky. The Matrix Reloaded follows.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Common questions
What is the '90s Action story so far?
This is a marathon of standalone action films from 1990 to 1999, not a connected story. It runs from Total Recall and Die Hard 2 through Hong Kong gun ballets, Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Cage vehicles, to The Matrix at the end of the decade; a few entries belong to longer series, such as Die Hard, Terminator, Bond and Mission: Impossible.
Where did '90s Action leave off?
The Matrix (1999) is the latest. Neo and Trinity rescue Morpheus from a building guarded by Agents. Agent Smith shoots Neo dead, but Trinity tells his body she loves him, he revives, stops bullets in mid-air, and destroys Smith from inside. Neo phones the machines to say he will show people a world without rules, then flies into the sky. The Matrix Reloaded follows.
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