This Collider listicle offers a tongue-in-cheek look back at the 1990s, an era the writer describes as a chaotic free-for-all for action cinema, when studios greenlit outlandish scripts featuring stars like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman in increasingly absurd scenarios. The piece counts down six R-rated action films from the decade that the author considers among the worst, highlighting their incoherent plots, mismatched performances and general sense of confusion both on and off screen.

Films singled out include Double Team (1997), starring Van Damme, Mickey Rourke and Dennis Rodman in a convoluted tale involving a tiger fight and exploding basketballs; Knock Off (1998), a John Woo-directed Van Damme vehicle about counterfeit fashion and micro-bombs hidden in clothing; and The Specialist (1994), featuring Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone and James Woods in a revenge thriller the writer found strangely lifeless despite its promising cast. The article continues in this vein with three further entries, framing each film as entertainingly bad rather than simply unwatchable.