John McTiernan
Director, Actor
- Nomads (1986)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down
- Murky plot sees Pierce Brosnan discovering Indian spirits terrorising L.A.
- Predator (1987)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers
- Big Arnie leads a SWAT team into the South American jungle only to be confronted by a faceless, hostile alien life–form. Solid sci–fi…
- Die Hard (1988)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman…
- Star–making role for Bruce Willis as an ordinary cop who runs into international terrorism at the top of a skyscraper on Christmas Eve. …
- Hunt for Red October (1990)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Sean Connery, Adam Baldwin, Scott Glenn…
- Sean Connery plays a renegade Soviet captain of a high–tech submarine who deviates into Western waters. Is he hostile or is he trying to…
- Medicine Man (1991)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco
- Sean Connery plays a crotchety mad scientist whose tinkerings in the Amazon rainforest result in a cure for cancer – but then he just as soon…
- Last Action Hero (1993)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Conceptually brilliant idea – movie fan is projected into world of his action idol (Arnie) who also joins him in the 'real' world – is sunk with…
- Die Hard with a Vengeance (Die Hard 3) (1995)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons
- Third chapter in the big loud adventures of a white–vested cop goes to a ridiculous extreme to top what is increasingly seeming like an…
- Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo
- Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo spruce up the 1968 romantic thriller as respective millionaire art thief and insurance investigator magnetised against…
- Thirteenth Warrior, The (1999)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Antonio Banderas
- A smouldering Antonio Banderas is an Arab recruited to make up the numbers by a group of Vikings on a kind of 'Magnificent 13' mission: defending a…
- Rollerball (2001)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Jean Reno, Chris Klein, LL Cool J…
- Now–notorious flop ‘remake’ of the James Caan original, set around the violent futuristic game of the title (kind of a cross between…