MNET ACTION

Movie highlights on MNet Action on DStv for the forthcoming week includes:

May 1 at 20h30: Delta Force (1986) directed by Menahem Golan and starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin. A band of ruthless terrorists hijack an airliner full of American passengers, and then U.S. enlists the aid of an elite strike force to rescue the hostages. (16VL)

May 2 at 20h30. 1969 (1988) directed by: Ernest Thompson and starring Robert Downey Jr. and Kiefer Sutherland. Two young men in the 1960's come to terms with their opinions about the Vietnam war and draft resistance. (16VNL)

May 5 at 20h00: The Rock (1996) directed by Michael Bay and starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage. A one-time escaped convict leads Navy SEALs onto Alcatraz to thwart a renegade colonel’s rebels who threaten the area with warheads. (16VL)

May 6 at 20h00: Striking Distance (1993) directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker. Tom is a rebellious cop who's not afraid to rock the boat in pursuit of a sadistic serial killer. Demoted to river patrol after suggesting the killer may be a fellow police officer, he initiates an unauthorized investigation. (16VSL)

May 7 at 20h30: Snakes On A Plane (2006) directed by David R Ellis and starring Samuel L Jackson and Julianna Margulies. An FBI agent must deal with a swarm of deadly snakes that have been released on-board in a plane to kill the witness he is escorting to trial.