Genre Action
Haywire
Despite it being packed with thrills, spills and fight scenes, Haywire is tenuously held together by a confusing and poorly paced plot.
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Headhunters
With the surge in interest for Scandinavian crime fiction, it was only a matter of time before Norway’s Jo Nesbø found one of his books making the leap to the big screen.
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Contraband
They – them Hollywood lot – they’re just throwing you scraps, yet they know that in the right mood everyone wants to see proper movies with proper guys doing proper stunts.
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This Means War
Memorable comedies boast likeable characters, interesting ideas, wit and timing. Passable comedies have at least one of these components. This Means War has none.
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Cowboys & Aliens
The real tragedy is with all that talent, money and good-will, Favreau has failed to make a satisfying or sufficiently fun B-movie.
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Fast & Furious 5
Petrol heads unite; it’s the return of throbbing muscle cars tearing up the streets and desert highways with a bunch of thrill-seeking car enthusiasts at the wheel.
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Hanna
A lazy person would call it Bourne in a training bra. Thank god I’m not a lazy person.
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Source Code
Jones has delivered a fast-paced, interesting action thriller that is a world ahead of the Denzel Washington-fronted mediocrity that has passed for action in recent years.
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Captain America: The First Avenger
In many ways this is the Steve Rogers of Marvel’s comic adaptations – straight-forward and likeable but lacking a certain something.
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I Am Number Four
If you hate Twilight, teen romance, anything featuring incredibly attractive or hideously deformed aliens or positive portrayals of pretentious amateur photography, give this a miss.
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