Top 7 FBI Movies: The Wrap-Up

by Alexandra on June 8th, 2008

Here are the final three for my list of Top 7 FBI movies!

No. 3 - Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning is based on a real investigation into the murders of civil rights workers in the 1960s. Two FBI agents are both up against the silence of a southern community, as well as each other, as they differ in their investigative approach.

Acting powerhouses Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe portray the agents. The film received Academy awards for cinematography and acting (Gene Hackman) among others. It also received some critical huff from many, including historians. Unfortunately, this can happen when you create a film based on such controversial events.

Read more after the jump, as the last two are less controversial, and more entertaining in my opinion:

These last two films take science to a new level:

No. 2 - Face/Off

John Travolta is here again as a good…and bad FBI agent!

In Face/Off, John Travolta is an FBI agent (Sean Archer) who must assume the physical appearance (via “a revolutionary new medical technique”) of the nation’s most dangerous criminal and terrorist, Castor Troy (Nicholas Cage). Whether you like the science or not, this film has everything from amazing chase scenes, drama of Archer and his family, bad guy Castor Troy’s family drama, and even a bit of prison drama.

Directed by John Woo, this film was wildly successful in the box office ($23 million in the opening weekend in June of 1997), and it is still popular. Both Cage and Travolta portray 2 characters in this film.

No. 1 - The X-Files: Fight The Future

This list of Top 7 FBI movies would not be complete without having one of the most anticipated FBI movies, The X-Files: Fight The Future. In fact, this movie was being filmed while the popular TV series was in hiatus between seasons, and just as for the upcoming new X-Files movie, filmmakers were forced to keep the production secret.

These 7 films all performed differently in the box office, however, they are the most notable for their portrayal of the FBI on the big screen.

I’ve had a great time looking at the movies here, and now I’m heading to the nearest Blockbuster for a bit of FBI movie fun myself.

The Complete Top 7 List

No. 7 - Catch Me If you Can
No. 6 - Hannibal
No. 5 - The Kingdom
No. 4 - The Punisher
No. 3 - Mississippi Burning
No. 2 - Face/Off
No. 1 - The X-Files: Fight The Future

Via IMDB & Wikipedia; Images via Amazon

Tags: face/off, gene hackman, john travolta, mississippi burning, nicholas cage, the x-files: fight the future, top 7 fbi movies, willem dafoe

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