3 New Prime Video Movies to Watch This Weekend (July 17-19): ‘The Amateur' and More
Watch With Us is celebrating all things action this weekend, and that's largely due to Prime Video's new action flicks that they just added in July.
The 2025 minor hit The Amateur just dropped on the platform, and it's an underrated revenge tale with an almost unrecognizable Rami Malek.
We also recommend streaming the 2022 adventure tale Uncharted, starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg as an unlikely pair of fortune hunters.
Finally, we suggest you check out the 1989 classic Road House, which features Patrick Swayze literally fighting an entire town of rednecks. What more can you ask out of a movie?
‘The Amateur' (2025)
Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is a New York City bartender who misses his big brother Sam (Rudy Pankow), who disappeared years ago while looking for buried treasure. When Sully (Mark Wahlberg), one of Sam's fortune hunter friends, tells him he might know where he is, Nathan agrees to accompany him – and help Sully find the treasure that will make him a rich man. But Nate and Sully aren't alone in digging for gold – Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas) wants it, too, and he's prepared to kill them to make sure it's all his.
Based on the popular PlayStation video game franchise, Uncharted is a modern-day Indiana Jones story that's as fun as it is derivative. Everything in the film has been done before and better in the first three Indy films, but that doesn't mean Uncharted isn't entertaining. On the contrary, it's a slickly made adventure flick, with great action set pieces and a good dynamic between the two leads. Yes, Holland and Wahlberg are miscast as the more mature-looking and acting Nate and Sully, but once you get past that, they're pretty fun to watch as a pair of adventurers who always manage to escape certain doom.
Uncharted is streaming on Prime Video.
‘Road House' (1989)
"Pain don't hurt." That's just one of the many immortal lines uttered in Road House, a gloriously trashy action film that marries the stupid and the sublime in one entertaining, R-rated package. Dirty Dancing icon Patrick Swayze stars as James Dalton, a NYC bounder who accepts a gig as head of security at a crime-plagued road house, Deuces, in Jasper, Missouri. Dalton's stern but fair methods roil the local riff-raff, who don't like being told not to beat people to death. They soon side with Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara), a criminal kingpin who doesn't like Dalton's fair and balanced approach. Dalton's life is soon in danger, but he's not worried. Remember, "pain don't hurt," and Dalton is determined to rid Jasper of all the sleaze that's ruled the town for years.
On paper, Road House seems like a typical ‘80s action film, with a generic male lead going mano a mano with an endless horde of hillbilly thugs. But what makes the film such an undeniable classic is in its execution – the film plays like a human cartoon, and you can't take any of it seriously. The casting of Swayze is also key since he plays his bouncer as a pseudo spiritual guru who dispenses wisdom while knocking a guy's teeth out. Add in a grizzled Sam Elliott as Dalton's best bud and Kelly Lynch as Missouri's most beautiful doctor, and you've got an action classic that no remake (sorry, Jake Gyllenhaal) can duplicate.
Road House is streaming on Prime Video.
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This story was originally published July 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM.