This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris go undercover with Fletch as the movie turns 40, releasing on May 31st, 1985.

Based on the first book in the Fletch series by Gregory Mcdonald, Chevy Chase is Irwin P. Fletcher aka Fletch. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times who writes under the pseudonym "Jane Doe", Fletch goes undercover and uses fake identities and disguises to pursue his leads. While investigating drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles, Fletch is approached by Alan Stanwyck (Tim Matheson), who offers Fletch $50,000 to kill him, as he's dying of bone cancer. Fletch is suspicious and starts to dig into Stanwyck, uncovering a complicated scheme that involves fake real estate deals, multiple wives, suspicious flights to Utah, and more. Zach and Chris discuss the movie's excellent soundtrack, the amusing running gag of charging elaborate food orders to the Underhills, how most of Fletch's disguises are just him in a different suit, the many character actors who appear, including the late George Wendt and Joe Don Baker, and more.

You can rent or buy Fletch on services such as Prime Video, Apple TV+, and Fandango at Home. Next week, we're getting our asses to Mars and discussing Total Recall, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary.

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Fletch (1985)

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris return to 1984 to watch The Karate Kid, just in time for Karate Kid: Legends hitting theaters.

The movie that kicked off the entire "Miyagi-verse," which includes Cobra Kai and the original sequels, The Karate Kid, stars Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, who travels from Newark, New Jersey, to Los Angeles with his mother, Lucille (Randee Heller).  Daniel catches the eye of cheerleader Ali Mills (Elisabeth Shue) but also Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), who bullies and beats Daniel down with karate learned at the Cobra Kai dojo.  Daniel gets help from his apartment building's handyman, Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita), who uses unorthodox training methods to help Daniel prepare for a karate tournament to face the Cobra Kai head-on.  Martin Kove co-stars as the ruthless Cobra Kai sensei John Kreese.  While revisiting the movie, Zach and Chris appreciate how Mr. Miyagi trains Daniel but also gets a bunch of housework done for free, why a restaurant manager job has better pay and benefits than an office computer job, the enigma of Ali being a popular cheerleader along with kind of a nerd, how it seems like there was a mass exodus from Jersey in the 80s and more.

You can watch The Karate Kid streaming on Fubo or Philo, or find a copy elsewhere and watch along with Zach and Chris.

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Everything Action Commentary: The Karate Kid (1984)

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris's mission, should they choose to accept it, is to discuss Mission: Impossible 2, which turns 25 this week and we also have what is being billed as the final entry in the franchise, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning hitting theaters.

Tom Cruise was back as Ethan Hunt, this time on the trail of a rogue IMF agent, Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott), and tries to stop him before he can come into possession of a deadly genetically engineered virus known as Chimera.  To help on his mission, Ethan is tasked with recruiting a thief named Nya Nordoff-Hall (Thandiwe Newton), who is Ambrose's former flame.  Zach and Chris discuss how this movie is wildly different in tone compared to the other Mission: Impossible movies, IMF communication missiles, several similarities to Goldeneye, Ethan's Street Fighter-style martial arts moves, and much more.

You can stream Mission: Impossible 2 on Paramount+, Prime Video [https://amzn.to/3F8WVeN], and Hulu. Next week, we're going undercover with Chevy Chase to discuss Fletch, which is turning 40.

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Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the mind of a killer and discuss Mindhunters, which came out in the US 20 years ago this week (after being released in almost every other country around the world in 2004).

Directed by Renny Harlin, Mindhunters follows a group of FBI agents training to be profilers under the unorthodox methods of Jake Harris (Val Kilmer), who places his trainees in elaborate simulations.  As a final test, the group is left on a remote island off the coast of North Carolina to uncover the simulated crime scenes of "The Puppeteer." Instead, they find themselves up against a real killer, who begins taking the team out one by one via elaborate traps.  Zach and Chris discuss who is bringing all the cats onto this remote military island, LL Cool J's over-the-top red herring, Christian Slater getting Sub-Zeroed by liquid nitrogen, the hilariously dumb underwater shootout, and more.

You can rent or buy Mindhunters on Prime Video [https://amzn.to/44Ip4DU], Fandango at Home, Apple, and more.  Next week, our mission, if we choose to accept it, is to watch Mission: Impossible 2, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary along with the release of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning in theaters.

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Mindhunters (2004)

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are in Boston for PAX East and discuss 2010's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to get into the video game mindset.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Prince Dastan, who leads an assault against the holy city of Alamut for the Persian Empire and discovers a mysterious dagger.  When accused of killing his father, King Sharaman (Ronald Pickup), he flees with Alamut's princess, Tamina (Gemma Arterton). He learns the dagger allows the wielder to travel 1 minute back in time.  Realizing this was the reason behind the invasion, Dastan reluctantly teams up with Tamina to protect the dagger and keep the Sands of Time from being unleashed.  Zach and Chris talk about where the Prince of Persia game series was at the time, how the movie is a critique/metaphor for the Iraq War, Dastan immediately abandoning his childhood friend to become a prince, the parkour action, and more.

You can watch Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on Disney+. Next week, we'll get into the mind of a killer and discuss Renny Harlin's ridiculous 2005 thriller Mindhunters, which turns 20.

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Chicago for the Chuck Norris classic Code of Silence, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Norris plays Eddie Cusack, the head of a squad of Chicago cops who finds himself in a gang war when a drug bust goes bad and crime boss Luis Camacho (Henry Silva) wants revenge on the mob.  Cusack also finds himself shunned by his fellow cops when he refuses to back corrupt cop Cragie (Ralph Foody), who kills an unarmed bystander during the drug bust and tries to cover it up.  Zach and Chris discuss how this feels like Chuck's version of Bullitt or The French Connection, how weird it is to hear Ralph Foody speak non-Home Alone dialogue, Dennis Farina's comedic relief, and, oh yeah, the KILLER ROBOT that Chuck uses in the explosive finale.

You can watch Code of Silence on Prime Video [https://amzn.to/3GEPdcM] and PlutoTV. Next week, we're getting into the gaming state of mind as we head to PAX East by watching Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which turns 15 later this month.

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Code of Silence (1985)

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris stack up for The Raid, aka The Raid: Redemption, as a new Gareth Evans movie, Havoc, arrives on Netflix.

The breakout for Evans and star Iko Uwais, Uwais stars in The Raid as Rama, a rookie cop in the Mobile Brigade Corps.  His unit assaults the apartment block belonging to ruthless crime lord Tama (Ray Sahetapy), but it becomes a fight for survival when Tama mobilizes all the criminal residents in the building to attack the squad.  Zach and Chris talk about the brutal fights and kills, how this and John Wick shifted us away from the Bourne era of blockbuster action, why one normal couple is living in this criminal operation, everyone being a secret martial arts expert, and more.

You can rent or buy The Raid on platforms like Prime Video [https://amzn.to/44cVlmg], Fandango at Home, and Apple TV.

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The Raid (2011)

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris pay tribute to the late, great Val Kilmer by watching him in one of his most fun roles, the boastful swordsman Madmartigan in 1988's Willow.

Warwick Davis stars as Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn farmer with aspirations of being a great sorcerer.  When a human baby washes ashore near the Nelwyn village, Willow is tasked to try and return her, but finds himself caught up in a much bigger mission that has the entire world's fate in the balance.  While watching the movie, Zach and Chris discuss how the Brownies feel completely separate from everything else happening, Madmartigan's one-man siege defense, Willow pretty much never using his magical acorns, the difference between a magician and a sorcerer, the horrifying pig transformations, and more.

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Everything Action Commentary: Willow (1988)

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris don homemade superhero suits to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Kick-Ass.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn and based on the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as high school nerd Dave Lizewski, who decides to take his love of comic books into the real world and become a superhero named Kick-Ass.  Unfortunately for Dave, he stumbles into a war between mobster Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) and the father/daughter vigilante duo Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) and finds himself in way over his head.  Zach and Chris discuss Nicolas Cage's wonderfully weird acting choices, the breakout performance of Chloe Grace Moretz, all the red flags surrounding Dave's love interest Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca), some of the differences between the comic and the movie, and more.

You can watch Kick-Ass on Plex or rent/buy it from services like Prime Video [https://amzn.to/3RoCAEE] and Fandango at Home.  Next week, with Gareth Evans' new movie Havoc hitting Netflix, we're discussing his action masterpiece The Raid.

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Kick-Ass (2010)

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris board Air Force One as another ass kicking president, Viola Davis in G20, hits Prime Video.

Harrison Ford is President James Marshall, who finds himself having to go full John McClane when terrorists led by the ruthless Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman) manage to hijack Air Force One.  President Marshall has to fight to rescue his family and stop a genocidal neo-Soviet leader from being released.  Zach and Chris discuss all the great "That Guy" actors in the movie, Xander Berkeley's endgame, using "Get Off My Plane" as a campaign slogan, Gary Oldman wisely passing on Speed 2: Cruise Control for this movie, and more.

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Air Force One (1997)

Welcome to the official podcast of EverythingAction.com!  Join movie aficionados Zach & Chris weekly as they dive into beloved classics, the latest releases, hidden gems, and everything else. Plus, don’t miss our monthly Everything Action Commentary track, where you can watch a movie alongside the Everything Action crew.