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Loading ...In our previous movie reviews, we posted the best action movies of 2009 and here is a list of the top ten upcoming movies 2009 featuring some of the best action movies and movies in other genre. These movies will be released in October, November and December. The release dates are included in the movie reviews below. Most of these movies can be pre-ordered by clicking the movie images below. Here’s a preview of the action movies hitting theaters in late 2009, listed in release date order.
1 New Moon
Director: Chris Weitz
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Trailers: New Moon – Trailer
Description: After the great success of the movie Twilight, the movie New Moon is said to be one among the best movies of 2009. The movie is based on the popular Twilight book series and these are the best books among readers. A movie about vampires and were wolfs, the movie is full of action and vampires. But the movie is slightly different from classic vampire movies. New Moon (The Twilight Saga) has gained a lot of popularity because of the famous Twilight series books and is the number 1 movie of year 2009.
2 Pandorum
Director: Christian Alvart
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Trailers: Pandorum – Trailer
Description: A classic outer space sci-fi movie packed with lots of Alien action, is already released in theaters in the US. The movie is already gaining a lot of popularity and cool reviews are out for this movie everywhere on the internet. The whole movie goes inside a spaceship where two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and when they are awaken from their hyper-sleep, quickly – and horrifically – realize they are not alone. When the astronauts find out what is going in the spaceship, they find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined. If you love action, this is the movie that has plots full of action with stunning background sounds and mind blowing imagery effects.
3 Surrogates
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Trailers: Surrogates – Trailer
Description: Pandorum and Surrogates share more than just the release dates. Surrogates is yet another sci-fi action movie from the director Jonathan Mostow who directed the movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003. Featuring Bruce Willis, the movie is set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Bruce Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates. Movie is filled with action and another great act from the famous Bruce Willis.
4 The Invention of Lying
Director: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Trailers: The Invention of Lying – Trailer
Description: Imagine a world where no one lies. A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain. What makes “The Invention Of Lying” is the star cast. Each character fits into the movie like they were made for this movie. Acting, locations, dialogue, director, everything fits beautifully into this movie to be released in beginning of October 2009. A movie that will make you laugh from beginning till the end, and yes, that’s the truth =)
5 A Serious Man
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Trailers: A Serious Man – Trailer
Description: Unlike movie title says, “A Serious Man”, the movie is a black comedy set in 1967 and centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won’t move out of the house. The movie makes other black comedies look positively light and airy. A great piece of work that will have you thinking long afterward, especially considering the odd and difficult-to-contextualize prologue and different ending which bookend a remarkable work.
6 Zombieland
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Trailers: Zombieland – Trailer
Description: Ruben Fleischer has been more into directing TV serials and is a well known director. The movie Zombieland is much like other zombie movies but with some extreme comedy-action. Shall we call it a comedy-action movie or a horror-comedy movie? Depends! The movie is not scary though. When the world is taken over by zombies, the only options left are RUN or Stand and kill zombies. The characters in the movie are forced to work together where one decides to kill zombies and the other wishes to flee away, but both have to work together to keep surviving in the zombie world.
7 Couples Retreat
Director: Peter Billingsley
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Trailers: Couples Retreat – Trailer
Description: After finding great success with movies like Iron Man (2008) and The Break-up (2006), director Peter Billingsley is almost ready with his new movie “Couples Retreat” to be released in the second week of October 2009. The movie is a comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort’s therapy sessions is not optional. A comedy movie that you would love to watch with friends and family.
8 Where The Wild Things Are
Director: Spike Jonze
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Trailers: Where The Wild Things Are – Trailer
Description: After successfully directing movies like Corporate Ghost and Fully Flared, director Spike Jonze is almost up with his new movie that is full of Action and Adventure “Where The Wild Things Are” to be released mid October 2009. The movie is an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world – a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Maurice Sendak’s classic book comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation.
9 The Box
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Trailers: The Box – Trailer
Description: A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who open it and become instantly wealthy. Little do they realize that opening the box also kills someone they do not know. The story revolves around this little wooden box that has a button. If you push the button, you receive a million dollars. But if you do push the button, someone you don’t know, is going to die. What would you do? Watch the movie to know what the movie characters choose to do in such a situation.
10 2012
Director: Roland Emmerich
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Trailers: 2012 – Trailer
Description: The movie 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. The movie is all about the Doomsday, revolving around the apocalyptic events predicted to happen in the year 2012. An academic researcher leads a group of people in a fight to counteract the apocalyptic events that were predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar and other historical documents, astronomy, biblical and scientific data. The movie is already in a huge buzz among movie fans. A “must see” movie of 2009.
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