John C. McGinley’s Typical Vibe
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John C. McGinley has 27 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Platoon.
Recurring themes

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Best of the Best 2
1993
Action · Thriller

Out for Justice
1991
Action · Crime

The Rookie
1990
Action · Crime

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Marked for Death
1990
Action · Crime

Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
2006
Action · Crime

The Punisher
2004
Action · Crime

Platoon
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Prime Video · Included

The Rock
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Point Break
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Peacock · Included

Identity
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Set It Off
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Surviving the Game
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Tubi · Free w/ ads

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow · With Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty

as Metallo (voice) · Voice
United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite meteor to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty on the heads of the Man of Steel and his ‘partner in crime’, Batman. Heroes and villains alike launch a relentless pursuit of Superman and Batman, who must unite—and recruit help—to try and stave off the action-packed onslaught, stop the meteor Luthors plot.
Dir. Sam Liu · With Tim Daly, Kevin Conroy, Clancy Brown

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Dir. James Mangold · With John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen

Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
Dir. F. Gary Gray · With Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox

A group of eighty American workers are locked in their office and ordered by an unknown voice to participate in a twisted game.
Dir. Greg McLean · With John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona

A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
Dir. Steve Oedekerk · With Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.
Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson · With Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton
When the law fails to punish a fellow rancher that has abused his horses, a Wyoming horse trader sacrifices it all in a quest for justice.
Dir. John Badham · With John Cusack, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones

In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.
Dir. Keith Gordon · With Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross

An aging police sheriff who has recently lost his position due to an angry outburst begrudgingly joins an alliance with new sheriff, Evie Barret to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.
Dir. Dana Gould · With John C. McGinley, Janet Varney, Nate Mooney

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Dir. Roland Joffé · With Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.
Dir. Damon Santostefano · With Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott

An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
Dir. John Stockwell · With Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kenny Wormald, Ron Perlman

Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?
Dir. James Cox · With Jared Leto, Selma Blair, Jake Gyllenhaal
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
Dir. Steve Carr · With Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.
Dir. Steven Seagal · With Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.
Dir. Stephen Kay · With Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west. They hire a grizzled alcoholic wagon master by the name of James Harlow to take them on a journey back to their hometowns in the East.
Dir. Peter Markle · With John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fire. As he mulls over accepting a job with the FBI, he is told that a friend has been murdered and he vows to track down the killer. Soon, he and his team are forced to match wits with a psychotic contract killer, who displays a disturbing commitment towards seeing his job through.
Dir. Rob Cohen · With Tyler Perry, Edward Burns, Matthew Fox
When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deranged scientist as half man and half animal. His newfound powers are awesome -- but their adverse side effects could take over his life. Now, Marvin must fight to control his crazy primal urges around his new squeeze, Rianna, and his rival, Sgt. Sisk, who both think he's one cool cat.
Dir. Luke Greenfield · With Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
Dir. Bruce McCulloch · With Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann

The Prize has been won. Connor MacLeod is mortal... Now an old man on the verge of death, memories of his past on the planet Zeist resurface, where a vengeful enemy, General Katana, plots to destroy him once and for all.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen

A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
Dir. Bette Gordon · With Julia Stiles, Josh Charles, Avan Jogia
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