Right now, and for a limited time, Amazon is running a sale on select Action films in the Instant Video Store. The sale includes such titles as (all descriptions from IMDB):
Super 8 (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99)
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident.
Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
– Written by Official Site
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (PG-13, 3.75/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $6.99)
Lara Croft is a wealthy, British archeologist/tomb raider who tries to thwart a secret society/doomesday cult seeking two pieces of a mysterious device hidden in two different places of the world in order to use it during a rare planetary alignment to bring them unlimited power to control or destroy the world.
– Written by Matthew Patay
Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life (PG-13, 3.75/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $6.99)
Intrepid British archaeologist Lara Croft has made perhaps the most important archaeological discovery in history: an orb that leads to the mythical Pandora’s Box.
Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss, an evil scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to sell the secrets of the box as the ultimate weapon.
Recruited by British Intelligence to get the orb back from Reiss, Lara recruits Terry Sheridan, a British marine turned mercenary (and her former love interest) to help. The two embark on an adventure that spans continents in an attempt to regain the orb.
– Written by Gavin Nelson
The Core (PG-13, 3.75/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99)
The Earth’s core has stopped spinning. Disasters are appearing all over the world: Birds acting crazy, powerful thunderstorms, 32 people die within seconds of each other when their pacemakers quit working.
Dr. Josh Keyes and his crew of five (total members: 6) go down to the center of the Earth to set off a nuclear device to make the Earth’s core start spinning again or Mankind will perish.
– Written by Inhotenjoys
Click here to view the full list of seven films included in the Instant Video Action Film Sale. Also note, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End are both still on sale for just $7.99 each as of this writing, and while it’s not officially part of this sale, the original Hellboy movie is also currently being offered at the sale price of $8.99:
Hellboy (PG-13, 4/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $8.99)
When the Nazis attempt to use black magic during the last days of World War II, a monkey like demon is thrown into the real world. Trevor Bruttenholm discovers the creature and rescues it from any danger.
The creature grows up and goes by the name of Hellboy.
Working in secrecy, Hellboy works to rid any evil. When some familiar faces from the past appear, it’s going to take more than Hellboy to stop them.
– Written by FilmFanUk