Renny Harlin

"At the end of the day, building a better mousetrap is just mechanics." Within that comment is the philosophy of director Renny Harlin...you'd best lower your expectations.

Where do WB pilots go when they die? Perhaps they're reincarnated as lousy supernatural thrillers.

Awfully forgettable, but Harlin makes things go boom again, with ruthless efficiency that puts the flick just over the hump of the straight-to-cable Jeff Speakman school.

Hey, are you looking for an exciting movie about pirates of the, well, um, Caribbean?

As preposterous as this "Die Hard on a mountain" flick is, Cliffhanger remains one of the zestier big-budget action pictures of the nineties.