10 Forgotten 90s Blockbusters That Were Actually Great

Michael Bay's The Rock was a huge success, but is rarely mentioned among the best action films. Still, this film with Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage is a masterpiece full of explosions, tension and hilarious one-liners.

Sylvester Stallone vs. Wesley Snipes in a future where swearing is banned and Taco Bell is the only restaurant. A box office hit, but often overlooked as one of the best action sci-fi films of the nineties.

Long before Batman Begins and The Dark Knight redefined the superhero genre, Alec Baldwin had his own mysterious avenger in The Shadow. Dark atmosphere and a great score, but now largely forgotten.

Kathryn Bigelow's cyberpunk thriller was visionary but a commercial failure. Still, Strange Days is a fantastic film about virtual reality and corruption that was far ahead of its time.

This fantasy film with Sean Connery as the voice of a talking dragon was a box office success but is rarely mentioned today. It remains a delightful adventure with a surprisingly emotional ending.

The true story of two bloodthirsty lions terrorizing a railway construction site in Africa. An ambitious adventure film with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas that was quickly forgotten.

A mix of horror and action in which a luxury cruise ship is attacked by a monster from the deep. It flopped, but it's a gloriously cheesy cult film with over-the-top effects.

With Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Mask of Zorro was a big success, but it's rarely named among the best 90s action films. Unfairly so, because it has it all: humor, action and romance.

This neo-noir sci-fi film was overshadowed by The Matrix, but is just as intriguing: a visually stunning, dark film about a world in which reality is constantly altered.

A bizarre action film in which toy soldiers come to life and start a war. Marketed as a kids' film, it's actually much darker and smarter than the marketing suggested.