10 Wildly Underrated Action Movies Of The 90s

10. Die Hard With A Vengeance

Let's kick things off with a sequel that isn't necessarily underrated in and of itself, but deserves much more credit in the grand scheme of its franchise. Die Hard With a Vengeance isn't better than the original Die Hard (saying so would be downright blasphemous), but it is just as good.

After watching director Renny Harlin perform a rushed copy-and-paste job on Die Hard 2, John McTiernan returns to put a much more vulnerable (and hungover) McClane into a game of cat and mouse with Simon Gruber, older brother to Hans.

Nothing will ever beat John McClane uttering that first "yippee ki yay" or Hans Gruber being dropped -- in exaggerated slo-mo -- off the top of the Nakatomi Tower. But Die Hard With a Vengeance has its own set of standard-bearing moments: The "joyride" through Central Park, the helicopter chase, McClane standing in the middle of Harlem wearing a super racist sandwich board...

Samuel L. Jackson elevates this buddy cop version of Die Hard to its apex. The interactions between Willis and Jackson, who plays reluctant sidekick Zeus, are so golden they should be locked up in Fort Knox. The fact that so much of the film takes place over the phone and still manages to remain engaging for its entirety is a pretty substantial feat, too.