"I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things." John Carpenter drops 'average Joe' Kurt Russell into the middle of a mash-up of film noir, urban crime/gang war, kung-fu and sci-fi/fantasy films... and it is marvelous. This is an incredibly inventive and fun movie. Highly recommended.
Directed by John McTiernan ("Die Hard"), starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin (and many other familiar faces), and featuring great characters set against the backdrop of a cross-Atlantic nuclear submarine chase between the USA and USSR, this is one of the best action movies of the 1980s/1990s (it was released in 1990).