Best Special effects Movies

  • 2012

    2012 (PG-13, 2009)

    John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt
    Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyp... read moretic sci-fi thriller following the prophecy stated by the ancient Mayan calendar, which says that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) joins the race to ensure that humankind is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller co-scripted by the director and his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer, Harald Kloser. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
    • fb1619580064
      fb1619580064: . 60 minutes had gone past and I had tired of the special effects.

      It's a shame that such a long amount of time was spent easing you into the movie.
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • fb750048027
      fb750048027: Awesome special effects in this movie and Joh Cusack does brilliantly in it. Recommended viewing although if
      Reviewed 2 months days ago
    • bekah226
      bekah226: the special effects are amazing .acting ehhh the escapes make you roll your eyes. A good disaster movi
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
  • King Kong

    King Kong (PG-13, 2005)

    Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks
    One of the greatest adventure stories in Hollywood history gets a new interpretation in this action ... read moredrama from Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson. In the early 1930s, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a daring filmmaker and adventurer who has gained a reputation for his pictures documenting wildlife in remote and dangerous jungle lands; despite the objections of his backers, Denham plans to film his next project aboard an ocean vessel en route to Skull Island, an uncharted island he discovered on a rare map. Correctly assuming his cast and crew would be wary of such a journey, Denham has told them they're traveling to Singapore, but before they set sail, his leading lady drops out of the project. Needing a beautiful actress willing to take a risk, Denham finds Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), a beautiful but down-on-her-luck vaudeville performer, and offers her the role; cautious but eager to work, Darrow takes the role, and onboard the ship she strikes up a romance with Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody), a respected playwright hired by Denham to write the script for his latest epic.When Denham and company arrive on Skull Island, the natives react with savage violence, but they happen to be the least of their worries. Skull Island is a sanctuary for prehistoric life, and lording it over the dinosaurs and other giant beasts is Kong, a 25-foot-tall gorilla who can outfight any creature on Earth. The natives kidnap Darrow, giving her to Kong as an offering to appease the giant beast; Denham and his men set out to find her, with Driscoll bravely determined to save the woman he loves. Eventually, Driscoll finds Darrow and Denham outwits Kong, intending to take the giant ape back to New York for display. But Kong has bonded with Darrow, and his attraction to her proves to be his undoing. Andy Serkis, who provided the body movements for Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings pictures, performed similar duties on King Kong, studying gorillas so he could mimic their actions, which were then used as the basis for the special-effects crew's digital animation of the great ape. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
    • fb653762217
      fb653762217: this movie had great special effects but dragged on a bit
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • fb598126261
      fb598126261: special effects look good but makes me want to fall asleep about half way through.
      Reviewed 14 days days ago
    • fb1072854401
      fb1072854401: . great special effects
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
  • Jumper

    Jumper (PG-13, 2008)

    Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane
    Following up his blockbuster action hit Mr. and Mrs. Smith, director Doug Liman turns to an entirely... read more new genre -- sci-fi -- for this tale of an underground world of teleporters. Based on the novel by Steven Gould, Jumper concerns David (Hayden Christensen), a young man who quite literally wills himself away from his grim family life by teleporting to another place with the power of his mind. Years later, David is using his powers to raid bank vaults, seduce girls in London, lunch on the pyramids, and surf in Fiji. But he soon discovers that he is not the only one bestowed with this unique gift, and all is not well in the world of jumpers. There are people out there, such as Roland (Samuel L. Jackson), who view jumpers as a threat to all humankind, and have made it their mission in life to eliminate them. After jumping back to Michigan to get reacquainted with his long lost love, Millie (Rachel Bilson), David makes the acquaintance of experienced jumper Griffin (Jamie Bell). Informed by Griffin of a secret between jumpers and a shadowy group that seeks to destroy them, the pair soon finds themselves facing off against a legion of murderous opponents who won't stop fighting until every last jumper has been eliminated. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
    • fb616522074
      fb616522074: Cool special effects. This was Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, before he was Nick Fury! Fun little sci-fi
      Reviewed 16 months days ago
    • fb728080190
      fb728080190: Special effects quite good...its different...Only if we could do this
      Reviewed 16 months days ago
    • fb761634181
      fb761634181: . All in all, it's a fun movie. They did a good job making it "not a special effects" movie. It kind of has the Borne feel. They created an interesting world that I ho
      Reviewed 21 months days ago
  • War of the Worlds

    War of the Worlds (PG-13, 2005)

    Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins
    An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction thriller,... read more freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two children Rachel and Robbie (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin), of whom he has custody on weekends. On one such visitation, looking after the kids becomes a little more difficult when, after a series of strange lighting storms hit his neighborhood, Ray discovers that a fleet of death-ray robotic spaceships have emerged nearby, part of the first wave of an all-out alien invasion of the Earth. Transporting his children from New York to Boston in an attempt to find safety at Mary Ann's parents' house, Ray must learn to become the protector and provider he never was in marriage. Also starring Tim Robbins, War of the Worlds was directed by Steven Spielberg, who had been planning the project for years, but set it aside until a wave of "alien invasion" films (led by Independence Day) had run its course. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
    • amityisland
      amityisland: .

      It may have the modern special effects but it fails in making the audience care.
      Reviewed 8 months days ago
    • fb732340523
      fb732340523: Liked it for the special effects. The ending was crap.
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • fb8600808
      fb8600808: . You'll see if for the special effects.
      Reviewed 7 months days ago
  • The Day After Tomorrow

    The Day After Tomorrow (PG-13, 2004)

    Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward
    Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset ... read moreof an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather patterns throughout the ages) Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), who voluntarily takes on the preservation of the world in the dawn of the next ice age and all the disaster that comes along with it -- violent hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, massive floods, etc. Hall must also contact his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), who was in the middle of an academic competition in New York City when the chaos begun. In addition to facing the largest-scale onslaught of natural catastrophes in the history of humankind, Jack, in his journey north, must contend with the masses fleeing south in an attempt to resettle in a warmer climate. The Day After Tomorrow also features Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward, and Joe Cobden. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
    • fb1218310889
      fb1218310889: . I liked the special effects, but the storyline could use more.
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • fb1382028818
      fb1382028818: Not realistic, but not a bad movie, good special effects!
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
    • fb1102774383
      fb1102774383: Great special effects. Especially liked Emmy and jake.
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
  • Clash of the Titans

    Clash of the Titans (PG-13, 2010)

    Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Gemma Arterton
    The 1981 mythological fantasy adventure Clash of the Titans is resurrected in this remake from Incre... read moredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier. Discovered at sea as an infant by a weary fisherman, demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington) grows up with no real knowledge of his celestial origins until his watchful guardian, Io (Gemma Arterton), informs him that he is the offspring of Zeus (Liam Neeson). When Zeus' brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes) casually wipes out Perseus' family, the grieving son vows to show the gods just what kind of damage humankind can inflict on its creators. Before long, Perseus and a small group of soldiers are venturing out into the desert in order to find a way to stop the Kraken, a terrifying force of nature that an indignant Hades has vowed to unleash upon man should they fail to offer up beloved princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) as a sacrifice. Along the way, the soldiers encounter a trio of frightening witches with second sight, contend with Hades' devoted servant Calibos (Jason Flemyng), battle giant scorpions, and come face to face with Medusa (Natalia Vodianova), the dreaded gorgon whose gaze has the power to turn men into stone. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
    • SunilJawahir
      SunilJawahir: . The original is a great classic. Maybe one day they can make a remake of it again with good special effects and a better script.
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
    • fb110902488
      fb110902488: . Way too many special effects. Liam Neeson spoke his dialogue well, but the movie was beaneath his talent. I was s
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
    • fb700438696
      fb700438696: Jake sully's new adventure is full of monsters, dull characters and bad special effects.
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
  • Ghost Rider

    Ghost Rider (PG-13, 2007)

    Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Donal Logue
    When a motorcycle-riding stuntman offers his soul to Mephistopheles in order to save the life of the... read more one he loves most, he is forced to play host to a powerful supernatural entity whose flaming skull visage strikes fear into the heart of his enemies in this feature-film version of the long-running comic series. By day, Johnny Blaze (actor and comic-book devotee Nicolas Cage) is one of the world's best-known stuntmen, but when the sun goes down and he is in the presence of evil, the death-defying daredevil bursts into flames to become the indestructible, motorcycle-riding antihero known to the world as the Ghost Rider. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
    • fb532278822
      fb532278822: really cool! Love the special effects!! When they said Nicholas cage was on fire, I didn't think he REALLY was in fire. Me
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • KEVE1979
      KEVE1979: . Cage was very good as the ghostrider and the special effects were really good.
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • fb653675601
      fb653675601: Horribly cheese acting and special effects. I was on the fence a out this one. Wish I had stayed on it.
      Reviewed 1 day days ago
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still

    The Day the Earth Stood Still (PG-13, 2008)

    Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith
    Keanu Reeves tops this adaptation of the seminal 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still with... read more this 20th Century Fox production. Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) helms the story of an alien traveler, Klaatu (Reeves), who heads to Earth along with his bodyguard robot, Gort, to deliver a warning of planetary destruction if the people of the world fail to stop laying waste to the environment. Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and Kathy Bates co-star in the David Scarpa-penned film. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
    • jamesdanielson1
      jamesdanielson1: . The film just seemed "blah" to me, boring, uneventful, lame, and very poor special effects. The storyline is great, original, and I like alien films, but there just wasn't eno
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
    • fb526489821
      fb526489821: . I was going to be fair with the rating, but gosh, those special effects? For 2008, it seems like we got worse with CGI, the ending effects were just way way
      Reviewed 9 months days ago
    • lewiskendell
      lewiskendell: . There's really not even an memorable action or special effects scenes to make things interesting, even briefly. There's no emotion here, no excitem
      Reviewed 14 months days ago
  • The Golden Compass

    The Golden Compass (PG-13, 2007)

    Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green
    A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darknes... read mores in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Belacqua, Casino Royale star Daniel Craig appears as Lyra's ruthless adventurer uncle, Lord Asriel, and Nicole Kidman assumes the glamorous guise of the villainous Mrs. Coulter. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
    • fb740344885
      fb740344885: It was alright for a fantasy movie, though more for a younger audience. Special effects were good.
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
    • fb635686631
      fb635686631: . The special effects were not over the top and I found myself wrapped up in the plot.
      Reviewed 12 months days ago
    • lewiskendell
      lewiskendell: .

      None of the CGI or special effects were particularly eye-catching, and at times I thought that the armoured bears looke
      Reviewed 3 years days ago
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (PG-13, 2009)

    Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Marlon Wayans, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing) adapts the beloved Hasbro G.I. Joe toy line with t... read morehis Paramount Pictures production that pits the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity against the evil forces of the organization known as Cobra. Dennis Quaid and Channing Tatum star as General Hawk and Duke Hauser, respectively, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marlon Wayans leading the rest of the cast, including Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Rachel Nichols, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Saïd Taghmaoui, and Asian film star Lee Byung-hun. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
    • krisroberson1
      krisroberson1: . in todya world where special effects on commercials occasionally out shine the original Star Wars, som epeople will fuss
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • fb505351127
      fb505351127: wow the special effects and toys in this movie were great... the ONLY complaint I have is the scene where th
      Reviewed 14 months days ago
    • fb1729313334
      fb1729313334: It's a typical action movie with no coherent plot and horrible acting, based solely on special effects and sex appeal but it is never the less astoundingly enjoyable!
      Reviewed 9 months days ago

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