Gun fu neo-Westerns aren’t exactly abundant,which makesDesperadoall the more special and enjoyable.

Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston’s criminal underworld in the name of God.

The narrative is so rapidly paced, too, that viewers barely have to wait between action scenes.

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Frankly, every last penny was worth it.

To spare, in fact.

Though the story is fantastic, it’s doubtful that anyone is watchingHard-Boiledprimarily for its good script.

Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas holding hands and walking away from a large explosion in Desperado.

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It’s a must-see action film for these and a dozen other reasons.

A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.

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Murphy and Connor aiming their guns in the same direction in The Boondock Saints.

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Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) and Vito Cornelius (Ian Holm) look at a computer monitor in ‘The Fifth Element’.

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Nicolas Cage as Castor Troy and John Travolta as Sean Archer point guns at each other in a fight in Face/Off.

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To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy, who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.

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Jet Li in a martial arts stance with others in Once Upon A Time In China.

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The Terminator and John Connor escape on a motorcycle from an explosion in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

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Jackie Chan in a fighting stance, holding a long cane in ‘The Legend of Drunken Master’.

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Michelle Yeoh with fists up stands next to Jackie Chan aiming a gun in Police Story 3: Supercop.

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Carrie Anne Moss as Trinity throwing a kick as she hovers in midair in The Matrix.

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When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

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Chow Yun-fat aiming two guns in Hard Boiled.

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