A faithful to the book, enjoyable and decent movie let down by terrible acting by the main star and redeemed only by superb performances from those people around him.
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Tomb Raider
A mixed bag of a movie, Tomb Raider is certainly a better-than-average game-to-movie conversion with excellent action set pieces of good-enough performances from the main actors, but the movie is let down by a lack of threat from the bad guys and a serious lack of overall menace.
Dungeons and Dragons
The script is shocking, the story terrible, the acting is horrific, the editing is a nightmare, in general, avoid this movie at all costs.
Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones
The second of the ‘new’ Star Wars movies is undoubtedly better than the first, giving us some decent action and dialog and poking a little fun at the Star Wars universe.
Minority Report
This slick interpretation of a Philip K. Dick story (same name) is a high quality fast-paced twisty and interesting movie which provides humour, action and intrigue in good quantity and although it’s not perfect the flaws are forgiveable.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
This well paced yet gentle sequel to the first three Indy movies will entertain fans and families alike but it may not deliver enough punch to keep fans of tougher action movies entertained.
Die Hard 4.0
Totally formulaic high-tec action movie that relies on the dialog and Willis’ delivery to stand above the crowd which amazingly succeeds giving us a fantastic funny fast paced and memorable cinema experience.
The Bourne Ultimatum
Maintaining the same style and frantic pace of the first two movies, The Bourne Ultimatum provides a satisfying conclusion to the story of Jason Bourne and a slick, full and thrilling cinema experience.
300
This heavily stylised (visually and morally) interpretation of a real historical event (Battle of Thermopylae) packs a visual punch and gives a cracking cinema experience while dividing audiences with its light plot and sparse dialog.
Blade II
A confusing story, pointless complexity and a reliance on shocking gore rather than brooding menace ruins this sequel making the worst of the three Blade movies by a long distance.