18 Less Known Facts From 90s Action Movies

There were some outstanding action movies in the ’90s. During the decade, studios continuously released incredible entertainment. Furthermore, those movies were full of small but clever details. Studio releases like The Matrix and Escape from L.A. contributed to establishing the genre over the years. As a result, most moviegoers have found exciting information when they re-watch action movies from the 1990s.

Here’s the list of some of the most exciting and minute details about action movies from the 1990s.

1. In The Fugitive [1993], Harrison Ford, who was playing Dr. Kimble, was not provided a script for the interrogation scene. Instead, they improvised his answers to make it seem more genuine.

2. A real-life robbery occurred at a store in New York during the filming of León: The Professional (1994).

3. The Edgar suit decomposed in Men In Black as the movie continued.

4. It was Alex Colville’s 1967 painting “Pacific” that inspired the scene where McCauley (Robert De Niro) is staring out the window, watching the ocean in Heat (1995).

5. It’s important to note that the parade music from the finale of The Phantom Menace (1999) is precisely the same melody from Return of the Jedi’s Emperor’s Theme, only in a primary key and with a higher tempo.

6. In the movie ‘Total Recall,’ Quaid is seen going through his suitcase, and you can see the disguise in it he later wears when he arrives at Mars as a woman.

7. In the movie Batman & Robin (1997), Poison Ivy gives Bruce Wayne a plan to make Wayne Enterprises more eco-friendly by using recycled paper. 

8. In the film Goldeneye (1995), James Bond shoots a Russian gangster in the leg, which caused a severe knee injury. He returns with modified cane in The World is Not Enough (1999) to save Bond’s life.

9. Volker Engle, the film’s special effects supervisor, plays the office worker who was killed during the alien attack in Independence Day (1996). 

10. There is a reference to Michelangelo’s Delphic Sibyl in The Matrix (1999), showing an oraclular figure of Greek in a similar outfit. 

11. From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Kill Bill (2003), and Planet Terror (2007), Michael Parks plays the same character, Earl McGraw, in all three films by Quentin Tarantino.

12. A stunt caused Jackie Chan to break his foot, so he finished the film in a sock painted like a shoe over his cast in Rumble in the Bronx (1995).

13. In the movie ‘Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995),’ Bruce Willis suggested Samuel L. Jackson play Zeus. Naturally, Jackson was thrilled as he had seen the original Die Hard dozens of times.

14. As seen in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the T-1000 looks a bit confused as this is how he would look in his natural form, which we haven’t yet seen.

15. In the movie “Demolition Man” (1993), Wesley Snipes, a black belt in Shotokan and Haptiko, moved too fast during fight scenes. As a result, the filmmakers asked him to slow down. Otherwise, the audience would see blurred images from the cameras.

16. In the 1993 movie, Last Action Hero, Danny and Slater (Schwarzenegger) cross paths with the Cop T-1000 from Terminator 2 (1991).

17. Escape From L.A. is a mystery thriller, and in between scenes, Kurt Russell worked on his basketball skills to ensure he made every shot.

18. The future Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is pictured with Max Shreck in Batman Returns (1992).