221. The Thing
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Kim Bubbs
Plot: A prequel to the 1982 films of the same name: A research team in the Antarctic comes across an alien spacecraft leading to a confrontation between the lead scientist and his graduate students on what to do about the discovery.
222. The Blob
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Actors: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase, John Benson
Plot: A meteoroite delivers a gelatinous creature to earth, which promptly begins devouring the citizens of a nearby small town. The growing "blob" tries its best to terrorize the town, but the ultra-cool Steve McQueen gives the "blob" the cold-shoulder and saves the day!
223. Jackie Chan's Who Am I? ( Wo shi shei )
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Benny Chan, Jackie Chan
Actors: Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre, Mirai Yamamoto, Ron Smerczak, Ed Nelson, Glory Simon
Plot: A special forces agent gets amnesia after a helicopter crash. He begins to unravel who he really is while being chased by an army of operatives bent on his destruction.
224. Solaris
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis, Ulrich Tukur, Michael Ensign
Plot: A psychologist is sent to a space station that is having issues with seeing things after being away from home so long. The psychologist has problems of his own that are discovered on the ship.
225. Appleseed ( Appurushîdo - 2005 )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Actors: Amanda Winn Lee, Jamieson Price, Kirsty Pape, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, William Bassett, Michael McConnohie
Plot: In the year 2131 a war has forced most of civilization into the utopian society of Olympus. When a warrior from the badlands, Deunan, comes to town, she meets up with a former comrade, now a cyborg, and finds that the perfect harmony of the city is set for destruction and only the legendary Appleseed technology devised by her mother can save humanity.
226. Cowboys & Aliens
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jon Favreau
Actors: Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Clancy Brown, Paul Dano
Plot: In 1873 a lone stranger finds himself in the town of Absolution in the
Arizona Territory. With no memory and a shackle on his wrist, he finds
strangers are not welcome, especially by the touch-as-nails town leader,
Colonel Dolarhyde. Yet the town will soon be beset by invaders from the
sky and the lone stranger holds to key to survival.
227. Things to Come
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Actors: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell
Plot: War and humanity changes from 1940 to 2036. John Cabal (Raymond Massey) and Passworthy (Edward Chapman) become part of the changes in the different time's era.
228. Battlestar Galactica
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard A. Colla
Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herb Jefferson Jr., Maren Jensen, Ray Milland
229. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, William H. Macy, Peter Macon, Lydia Peckham
Plot: Three hundred years after the passing of Caesar, apes have evolved while humans have fallen. Noa is about to come of age in his Eagle Clan but the intrusion of a superior force leaves him for dead while taking his surviving clan captive. Vowing to get them back, he is joined by a young female human - who holds her own secrets - and one of the last, true followers of Caesar as they make their way to an oceanside stronghold where a mad tyrant holds sway.
230. Dreamscape
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joseph Ruben
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Kate Capshaw, Peter Jason, Madison Mason
Plot: If you die in a dream do you die in real life? Can a person enter you dream and kill you for real? How does the President of the United States of America tie in?
