Action/Adventure Recommended

Taken -- the latest hit from French thrillmeisters Luc Besson and Pierre Morel -- casts Liam Neeson as an ex-CIA hand who springs into hell-hath-no-fury mode when slave traders kidnap his vacationing teen daughter.... (more)

Leonardo DiCaprio plays an audacious CIA operative in this screen adaptation of David Ignatius's thriller. With Russell Crowe along for the ride as DiCaprio's handler and Ridley Scott as director, Body of Lies dazzles from start to pulse-pounding finish....(more)

Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, and Noah Emmerich elevate this Sidney Lumet–style tale depicting a family of New York City cops rocked by one member's criminal enterprise....(more)

Among 2008's most visually spectacular films, Russian director Timur Bekmambetov's Wanted casts English costume-drama fixture James McAvoy as a young office drone who suddenly finds out he's the genetic heir of the world's greatest super-assassin.... (more)

Having just carried out a particularly difficult hit in London, two hitmen seek shelter in Bruges, Belgium, only to find their views on life and death permanently altered by their interactions with the locals...more