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Although you'll have to wait a long time to see our squaline hero mess with the wrong Mexican, when the moment comes, it makes it all worthwhile.

When you're stuck at home and you're tired of more cerebral cinema, you may well find yourself longing for a bit of cheap and cheerful action. You won't get much cheaper than this.

How can you refuse a movie that offers a POV shot of inside a snake's belly?

In a film that sees teabagging used as a combat move, pretty much anything goes.

Occasional vicious violence and brusque language can't disguise the fact that this is at heart a wholesome, feelgood film.

Imagination breaches the boundaries of wonder

The Devil's Rejects is not primarily a horror flick. It's a gritty, grotty, rustic, action/revenge thriller.

This is a modest little film but in its own way it's taking on some very big issues.

Both leads flounder around with low level racist and misogynistic lines that were probably intended to be daring but are in fact more likely to cause offence just because they're so badly written.

The pacing never lets up and the action continually tries to outdo itself with its inventiveness.

Machete Kills is a jumbled assortment of loosely related scenes whose main theme appears to be “how many different ways can you kill people with a helicopter?”

Rodrigues's trilogy is a visual feast of posturing machismo, during which all sense and sensibility is discarded in favour of slow-motion stunts and death from a thousand angles.

Foo makes a sympathetic lead (though he doesn't actually get much screen time) and Lyman is on good form as his antagonist.

Rodriguez's up-close, tightly focused direction means our eyes are always drifting toward the shifting focus of the background, hyper-alert for a shimmering Predator cloak.

Realistic fly-on-the-wall performances prevent Sherrybaby from descending into a sentimental hard luck story.

A sense of having been here before, as well as the suspicion that Ivan Reitman keeps everything light and frothy for commercial reasons, nags at the pleasure.

The film is a lot of fun if you don't stop and think.

It’s all very handsomely shot, with a feisty soundtrack and ebullient sense of humour, but too often it feels as if it’s just being quirky for the sake of it.

The plot pigs out on possibilities but the characters are great and if you can keep up with the speed of events you won't be disappointed.

Successful films like this are few and far between, whilst the genre is littered with the bones of those that didn’t make it.

Forget the story, stunts have usurped spontaneity.

A serviceable family film.