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Movies that feel like The Rocketeer (1991)

If you loved The Rocketeer, the closest films we have are Jurassic Park (1993), Fantastic Voyage (1966) and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). All three share The Rocketeer's epic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Hulu, YouTube TV and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

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If The Rocketeer hit the spot, these will too

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Jurassic Park
1993 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2adventure Β· science fiction

Epic where it counts, cerebral underneath

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

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Fantastic Voyage
1966 Β· dir. Richard Fleischer
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.8science fiction Β· adventure

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1960s show

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

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Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 Β· dir. Joe Johnston
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.9action Β· adventure Β· science fiction

Joe Johnston working the same nerve twice

The difference: Plays it as action more than The Rocketeer does

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

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X-Men
2000 Β· dir. Bryan Singer
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.3adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Superhero is the engine of both

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

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X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 Β· dir. Brett Ratner
πŸ… 56%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Superhero sits at the heart of each

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men led by Professor Charles Xavier, and Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants.

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Dune
2021 Β· dir. Denis Villeneuve
πŸ… 83%β˜… 8science fiction Β· adventure

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

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X2
2003 Β· dir. Bryan Singer
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.4adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Both trade on ideas more than on being science fiction

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2009 Β· dir. Gavin Hood
πŸ… 37%β˜… 6.5adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

Adventure approached the same way

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

After seeking to live a normal life after 200 years, Logan sets out to avenge a death by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.

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Waterworld
1995 Β· dir. Kevin Reynolds
πŸ… 61%β˜… 6.3adventure Β· action Β· science fiction

The same science fiction instincts

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'β€”which is tattooed on Enola's back.

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Jurassic Park III
2001 Β· dir. Joe Johnston
πŸ… 49%β˜… 6adventure Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Both are Joe Johnston films, and they rhyme

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.

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Superman Returns
2006 Β· dir. Bryan Singer
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.1science fiction Β· action Β· adventure

Both are adventure through and through

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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