Sylvester Stallone's 15 Biggest Movies - Ranked Worst To Best

5. Cliffhanger (1993)

This film arguably stands alongside the same year's Demolition Man (which surprisingly didn't make the top 15) as Stallone's last really great non-sequel role. And Cliffhanger's hero Gabe Walker is the sort of role he loves best: a once-great man getting a shot at redemption. Set against an awesome mountain range backdrop at a time when such locales were captured on film without CGI, Cliffhanger is murder on anyone with a fear of heights, but ranks among its leading man's best for action-packed spectacle, and proved a big enough hit with fans to make it Stallone's 5th biggest movie ($255 million worldwide). Essentially it's Die Hard in the Rockies (wonder if the name of the mountain range had any bearing on the decision to shoot there?) Stallone's Walker is an ex-mountain rescue climber who reluctantly returns to the mountain when a gang of criminals - under the leadership of a wonderfully theatrical, and inexplicably English, John Lithgow - venture into the terrain in search of stolen money. Heartstopping stunts, butt-kicking action and smirk-inducing one-liners ensue.