5 Best Sci-Fi Movies in 25 Years

Honorable Mentions: Looper, Moon, Minority Report, Inception, Dark City, Star Trek (2009)
Note: I'm only doing the last 25 years because there are several very old and iconic sci-fi movies I haven't seen going back as much as 100 years. This list is made up of my personal opinions.

5. Jurassic Park 

When I think about this movie I can't help but play the theme song in my head, and it's awesome. Released in 1993 Jurassic Park quickly became the highest grossing movie of all time by demolishing the previous record held by E.T. and becoming the first movie to gross over 900 million dollars. A land mark in visual technology in movies, with CGI years ahead of its time that sometimes surpasses what we see in TV and movies today. Jurassic Park paved the way for the use of large amounts of digitally input visuals, while at the time they were used in small quantities. An epic story of modern day man versus yesterday's beasts. An incredible movie and an instant classic.

4. Twelve Monkeys

Twelve Monkeys was released in 1995 and Is undoubtedly the greatest time travel movie of all time, it's also one of the most confusing. Twelve Monkeys is what many perceive as a very realistic take on time travel. In most time travel movie the future can be changed, not in Twelve Monkeys. Everything is set in stone and will happen no matter what. The movie starts out in an apoptoliptic future where a virus has wiped out over 90 of mankind, those left fled underground. Time travel is discovered by some scientists and send back an agent to try and track the disease. They know where some of the locations of the first outbreaks and the agent is to investigate them before the outbreak and to look into a terrorist cell known as the Twelve Monkeys who are believed to have something to do with the virus. Twelve Monkeys is a dark look at humanity when we are on our last leg and our attempt to survive.

3. The Matrix

The Matrix is a rare type of movie, it's not often that a film completely changes a genre. After its release every action movie wanted to be like the matrix, but even to this day no movie has been able to emulate the originality and pulse pounding action that we saw in the original Matrix movie. In the movie around the end of the 21'st century, the first true artificial intelligence is launched and it turns out to be the biggest mistake in human history. The machines enslave humanity and put us in a virtual world called the Matrix, and our actual bodies are harvested for energy. But a resistance that escaped the Matrix attempts to save the last of humanity, and there last hope is a man named Neo who is believed to be the one to save mankind.

2. Children of Men
Released back in 2006, Children of Men is an emotional powerhouse that takes a hard look at mankind. The movie takes place in 2027 and for the past 18 years women can no longer have children. After an average Joe is roped into a crazy situation by his ex, he has to help transport the only pregnant woman for 18 years to safety. But as you can imagine, it's not so straight forward. Children of Men is a dark movie that shows what mankind looks like at our lowest low. When every civilization on earth are at each others throats. With every nation in the world collapsed, there is no hope. The last ounce of hope is with this woman, she is humanity's last chance. A superb and thought provoking movie like few others.

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Was there really any other choice? Released in 1991, director James Cameron made one of the all time greatest action/time travel/sci-fi movies. In the future a artificial intelligence called Skynet takes over the world's computer network and launches nukes all around the world nearly wiping out mankind. But a man named John Conner leads a rebellion against the machines. So Skynet sends a robot called the T-1000 back in time to kill John when he's a child. But future John sends back a robot of his own to protect his past self. And the next two hours are just plain badass. Not only is this one of the best sci-fi movies of the last 25 years, it's one of the best movies of all time.