10 Action Movies That Prove Hollywood Hates You

How do you celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the all-time great action movies? If you’re Twentieth Century Fox, you rush a sequel from the writer of Hitman and the director of The Omen remake into production.

Playing more like a very poor man’s 24 movie than a Die Hard picture, sequel #4 is a ginger-haired stepchild that deserves to be beaten at every available opportunity. There isn’t a single memorable moment in the entire film, and nothing in Skip Woods’s screenplay suggests he did anything more than dust off unproduced script, change the names and ask the studio, “Will this do?”

You’re off to a bad start when a character who hates flying has no problem taking a plane to Russia on a moment’s notice, but why stop there? Randomly throw in an unexciting chase sequence, add a few flat and unremarkable characters, sprinkle with crap one-liners and – presto! – you’ve made a worse movie than Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.