Mel Gibson
Director, Actor
What Women Want (2000)
- Dir. Nancy Meyers
Feat. Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt
- ‘Freak accident’–comedy in which ad–man Mel Gibson finds himself hearing the intimate thoughts of women everywhere (and their…
We Were Soldiers (2002)
- Dir. Randall Wallace
Feat. Mel Gibson, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein…
- Big–budget, lavish re–enactment of America’s curtain–raiser in the Vietnam War, the fierce battle of la Drang, with an…
Signs (2002)
- Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, M. Night Shyamalan…
- Trading on a promise to explore the mysterious crop–circle phenomenon, the third supernatural blockbuster from M. Night Shyamalan instead…
Singing Detective, The (2003)
- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Robin Wright, Jeremy Northam…
- A not unthoughtful remake of Dennis Potter's iconic 1980s TV Series, in which a psoriasis–afflicted crime writer hallucinates mystery plots and…
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci
- A visceral depiction of Jesus Christ's final day before being crucified, this controversial work from devout Christian Mel Gibson is bluntly literal,…
Apocalypto (2006)
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Dalia Hernandez, Rudy Youngblood
- Dir. Mel Gibson’s oft–enthralling action adventure follows a young tribesman living in a jungle village who is taken prisoner by Mayan…
Edge Of Darkness (2010)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
- Kiwi Martin Campbell helms this compact Hollywood remake of the 1986 BBC mini–series he also directed.
Despite Mel Gibson’s…
Beaver, The (2011)
- Dir. Jodie Foster
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin…
- A haggard Mel Gibson adopts the persona of a beat–up hand puppet in an attempt to cope with his deteriorating mental health in this…
Get the Gringo (2012)
- Dir. Adrian Grunberg
Feat. Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez
- Mel Gibson slums it as a drug runner sent to a hellish Tijuana prison in this lurid south–of–the–border thriller.
Befitting of…
Machete Kills (2013)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Danny Trejo, Mel Gibson, Demian Bichir…
- More stupid splatter from exploitation exponent Robert Rodriguez, here reviving Danny Trejo's Mexican badass for another round of saving the world,…
Expendables 3, The (2014)
- Dir. Patrick Hughes
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Harrison Ford…
- Harrison Ford and Antonio Banderas lend their arthritic bodies to this chest–thumping third installment, no longer a throwback to the heydays…
Blood Father (2016)
- Dir. Jean-François Richet
Feat. Mel Gibson, William H. Macy, Erin Moriarty…
- Mel Gibson attempts career rehabilitation in this stolid actioner, playing an ex–con who reunites with his estranged wayward…
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
- Dir. Mel Gibson
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn…
- The true World War II story of a conscientious objector who, at the Battle of Okinawa, won the Medal of Honor for his bravery and regard for his…
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
- Dir. S. Craig Zahler
Feat. Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles…
- A simmering, witty and entirely unpredictable heist epic from the writer/director of BONE TOMAHAWK that stars an ageing Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughan…
Professor and the Madman, The (2019)
- Dir. P. B. Shemran
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer…
- Biographical drama set in London in 1879, where a professor (Mel Gibson) compiling the first Oxford England Dictionary receives a submission of over…
Fatman (2020)
- Dir. Ian Nelms, Eshom Nelms
Feat. Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Mel Gibson indulges his curmudgeonly side as a rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus who is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, a neglected…