10 Underappreciated 90s Thrillers You Must Watch

Before The Matrix exploded into existence and made The Wachowskis into the well known Director/Writer partnership they became they debuted with one of the ‘90s best suspense thrillers in Bound.

Starring Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly and Joe Pantoliano, Bound does everything you can ask of a film in this genre and leaves the viewer wrung out and exhilarated from its twists, pace, and super sharp script.

The plot is essentially a simple one, Jennifer Tilly plays the wife of mobster Joe Pantoliano, hiding a desperation to escape her situation. Into the formula walks Gina Gershon, an ex-con hustler who swiftly gets romantically entangled with Tilly’s character. The women see an opportunity in each other to escape the lives they have. They hatch a plan to steal $2 million from Pantoliano and make a run for it.

Gershon and Tilly’s on-screen chemistry draws you in before the twisted narrative takes you the rest of the way. Pantoliano steals the show here though, his performance shifts through every conceivable emotion, sometimes in just one scene. His intensity is at times breath-taking and he thoroughly deserved a lot more credit for this role.

Primarily this is thriller and suspense at its best but The Wachowskis have ably intertwined a number of other genres into the movie to great effect and like the Coen brothers often achieve, they find that balance between nail-biting tension and welcome comic moments.