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It feels like a two-hour descent into Mordor that makes Gladiator look gay.

There's some good old fashioned film-making here.

The film also looks great, with a rich and varied colour palette and costume array, plus crisp camerawork from Barry Ackroyd combined with nifty editing.

This is power unchained and unfiltered as the two protagonists position themselves for the final shootout like in an urban Western

The direction is by-the-numbers and heavy-handed.

Dafoe brings just the right combination of nastiness and charm to his role.

The story may lack originality but the visual stylings and action go some way to making up for its shortfall.

Waugh understands that a blast wave shattering windows on a suburban street is a far more powerful image than yet another shot of the White House exploding.

Fast and funny enough to let even its derivativeness take wing – and, as any seven-year-old can tell you, dragons are cool.

There is no tension, no expectation of trouble. Happiness infuses the land

Where part two merely faltered, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World crashes and burns.

Flails about through a series of ostensible set-pieces until it reaches a conclusion that verges on the nonsensical.

Lara has changed. No longer a three-dimensional computer game heroine, with enhanced breasts, she has emerged as the next James Bond.

"The plot is bollocks."

It is commendable that Gerard Butler, director Marc Foster and writer Jason Keller have tried to bring the issue of child soldiers to as wide an audience as possible - but though its heart may be in the right place, it never finds a steady rhythm.

What might have been a costume gala, sponsored by the Scottish Tourist Board, is far tougher and more uncompromising.

Those members of the audience over the age of ten may find themselves a little undiverted

24-carat, high pressure excitement

A considerably flawed, yet visually superb, tale of beauty, beast and love.

As functional as Plane is, it's nuts and bolts, by the numbers, and for much of the time pedestrian.

It will definitely appeal to women rather than men, but it will also touch anyone, male or female, who has had to or is having to face a terminal illness.

Entertaining and stylish.

Before the movie disintegrates completely - it makes Mad Max look like a classic - you can't help wondering how these Yanks fuel their war machines.

Proof that when you combine a great premise and a talented director, you don't necessarily strike gold.

The film takes time to gather pace and discover its true direction. Once there, the story takes hold and won’t let go.