Best Action movies of 1997

Actors : Alessandro Nivola, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, John Travolta,
Directors : John Woo,

In order to foil an extortion plot, an FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same terrorist impersonates the FBI agent.

Actors : John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : George Armitage,

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

Actors : Ron Perlman, Sigourney Weaver, Dominique Pinon, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens.

Actors : Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, Glenn Close, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he - an ex-soldier - works from hiding to defeat them.

Actors : Jake Busey, Denise Richards, Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.

Actors : John Malkovich, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Colm Meaney,
Directors : Simon West,

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Viggo Mortensen, Jason Beghe, Demi Moore,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.

Actors : Ed Harris, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Laura Linney,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A career thief witnesses a horrific crime involving the U.S. President.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Cylk Cozart, Patrick Stewart, Mel Gibson,
Directors : Richard Donner,

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Actors : Elisabeth Shue, Val Kilmer, Rade Serbedzija, Valeriy Nikolaev,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.

Actors : Harrison Ford, Rubén Blades, Margaret Colin, Brad Pitt,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding.

Actors : Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Jon Voight,
Directors : Luis Llosa,

A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.

Actors : Temuera Morrison, Willem Dafoe, Jason Patric, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Jan de Bont,

A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.

Actors : Theresa Randle, John Leguizamo, Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Mark A.Z. Dippé,

An elite mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil.

Actors : Jeremy Foley, Linda Hamilton, Jamie Renée Smith, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A vulcanologist arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to live in America and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may wake up at any moment.

Actors : Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames,
Directors : John Singleton,

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community.

Actors : Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

An imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Actors : Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller, Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

A 25 year old female White House staffer, Carla Town, is murdered in the White House. D.C. homicide detective Regis is assigned to investigate, only to find evidence suppressed by the ...