20 Action Films From The 1990s You Must Watch

20. Bullet In The Head (1990)

John Woo helps get the decade up and running with a film that not only has the guns, explosions and body count you would expect from an action film, but which also has some strong emotional weight to it. Set in 1967, the film follows three childhood friends, Ben, Paul and Frank, as they grow up together as part of a gang in Hong Kong.

Things look like they are about to slow down for them when Ben gets engaged to his girlfriend, but when a rival gang leader tries to steal the money for the reception, Frank attacks the gangster in retaliation and ends up killing him. In order to lose the cops, the three friends decide to go to Vietnam where they also hope to make money as smugglers during the war.

But unfortunately, the three friends' attempts to earn their fortune quickly spirals into a painful and deadly battle for survival as they get on the wrong side of other gangsters, the Vietnam army and the Vietcong. As their friendship is put to the test on multiple occasions, you will be glued to your screen eager to find out whether or not they will survive.